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Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Sweetheart Deal Nets GEO Group $15 Million Payout from ICE for Haitian Deportation Flights by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh Dye In September 2021, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid more than $15 million to private prison operator GEO Group for deportation flights to repatriate thousands of Haitian migrants. The …
$14.3 Million in Costs, Attorney Fees and Interest Awarded Against GEO Group in Suits for Not Paying Minimum Wage to Immigrant Detainee Workers in Washington by Matthew Clarke Brings total the firm is ordered to pay to $37.6 million by Matt Clarke On December 14, 2021, a Washington federal court …
Private Prison Firm Revenues Soar on “Tailwind” of Immigrant Detainees by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 5, 2022, Florida-based GEO Group—the nation’s largest private prison operator—laid bare its strategy to keep federal dollars flowing into the company’s …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Seven Prisoners Died in 2021, One by Homicide, at Virginia’s Only Private Prison by The Lawrenceville Correctional Center (LCC), Virginia’s only remaining for-profit prison, now also has the dubious distinction of reporting seven prisoner deaths in 2021. One of those deaths has been confirmed as a homicide. One is suspected …
ABA’s Private Prisons Prophecy Comes to Pass by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Prison populations exploded in every state across the country during the 1980s and ‘90s. It was during that massive expansion that the modern private prison industry was born as a “way to ease the burden on taxpayers …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Report Highlights Force Feeding of Hunger Striking Asylum Seekers by ICE and GEO by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regardless of what people without first-hand knowledge of prisons or detention centers believe, prisoners are generally not the blood-thirsty, brutal animals depicted in the media. In fact, especially in the face …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Federal Jury Orders GEO Group to Pay $23 Million for Immigrant Detainee Slave Labor in Washington by In a landmark case, a federal jury decided against the GEO Group for paying $1 dollar a day wages to immigrant detainees at its privately-operated prison in Washington. The facility in question is …
Brief • November 4, 2021
State of WA v GEO Group, WA, Amended Civil Judgment, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05806-RJB Document 633 Filed 11/04/21 Page 1 of 1 1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 5 6 STATE OF WASHINGTON, 7 Plaintiff, 8 THE GEO …
Brief • October 29, 2021
State of WA v. GEO Group, WA, Jury Verdict 2, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05769-RJB Document 519 Filed 10/29/21 Page 1 of 1
Brief • October 27, 2021
State of WA v. GEO Group, WA, Jury Verdict 1, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05769-RJB Document 508 Filed 10/27/21 Page 1 of 1
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Pay-to-Play Lives in FEC Decision Not to Enforce Ban on Political Contributions by Boca Prison Contractor The GEO Group by Dan Christensen by Dan Christensen, Florida Bulldog, September 20, 2021 In a ruling that undermines an 81-year-old anti-corruption law prohibiting pay-to-play political contributions by federal contractors, an impotent Federal Election …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Seven Former GEO Employees Plead Guilty in Federal Texas Private Jail Bribery Scheme by On July 6, 2021, Veronica Ortega, 45, a former medical assistant at the GEO-owned and -operated East Hidalgo Detention Center pleaded guilty to bribery after admitting she received cash to smuggle marijuana into the jail. She …
EPA Slams GEO Over Disinfectant Use at Private Prison, Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction to Stop It by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Environmental Protection Agency issued a report and warning in March 2021 to GEO Group for misuse and abuse of a disinfectant at its ICE Processing Center …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
US Marshalls Terminate Contract with GEO Snitch Camp at Queens NY Detention Facility by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On March 16, 2021, the Queens Daily Eagle reported that the federal government had declined to renew a contract with for-profit prison contractor GEO Group to operate the Queens Detention Facility …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Rebellion at GEO-Run Prison in New Mexico by A three-hour uprising at a privately-run medium security prison in New Mexico on November 2, 2020, led to a few prisoner injuries, a fire and property destruction. It was an “incident [that] absolutely could have been prevented,” said said the state’s Corrections …
GAO Reports ICE Wastes Hundreds of Millions Each Year by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The non-partisan Government Accounting Office (GAO) issued a report in February 2021 entitled, Immigration Detention: Actions Needed to Improve Planning, Documentation, and Oversight of Detention Facility Contracts. Key findings in the report included a failure …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
Washington State Governor Signs Bill Banning Private Prisons Statewide by Juliette LaMarr by Juliette LaMarr Washington Governor Jay Inslee in April 2021 signed House Bill 1090, which bans private, for-profit detention facilities in the state. According to the text of the bill, this includes “any facility in which persons are …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Ransomware Attack on GEO Group Exposes Sensitive Information by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 3, 2020, the GEO Group, one of the largest private prison companies in the nation, revealed that it had suffered a ransomware attack in August of that year that exposed sensitive personal information of …
Nielsen v. Shinn, AZ, Order Dismissing Complaint, For-Profit Prisons, 2021 Case 2:20-cv-01182-DLR-JZB Document 37 Filed 03/08/21 Page 1 of 26 1 MGD 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Jeffrey Nielsen, et al., 10 11 12 No. CV …
Private Prison Companies Face Stock Crash, Credit Crunch by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Once darlings of Wall Street, CoreCivic and GEO Group — the nation’s two biggest publicly traded private prison companies — have suffered a precipitous drop in stock prices, following a pressure campaign by foes of mass …
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