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Arizona and Indiana Prisoner Uprising at GEO-Run Prison in Indiana by by Matt Clarke On April 24, 2007, about 500 Arizona and Illinois prisoners at a privately-run facility owned by the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) participated in an uprising. The prison is operated by the Boca Raton, Florida-based GEO …
“Please Rip Us Off” Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David Reutter "Please Rip Us Off" Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David M. Reutter Despite having ordered a criminal investigation into its private prison contractors, the Florida Legislature and Governor Charlie Crist have enacted legislation that specifies …
California DOC Federal Healthcare Receiver Issues Master Remedial Plan by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg "Good care is less costly than bad care." This maxim, from prison healthcare Receiver Robert Sillen, set the tone when he announced his master plan on May 10, 2007 to constitutionally repair the California …
Reformed Dental Care Will Have Ohio Prisoners Smiling by Michael Rigby The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) will hire dozens of dental health care providers, revise policies and procedures governing prisoner dental care, and implement oral health care education programs as part of a settlement agreed to in …
California DOC Guards Win Injunction to Stop Prisoner Transfers Out-Of-State; Transfers Continue While State Appeals by The Superior Court of Sacramento County has granted a writ of mandate prohibiting the transfer of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners to out-of-state facilities to alleviate the prison system's chronic overcrowding …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Utah DOC Audit: Ingrained Staff Cronyism Stymies Workplace Effectiveness by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A December 2006 state audit of the Utah Department of Corrections (UDC) found that entrenched upper management personnel lacked vision and innovation, while they selectively allowed punishable staff "indiscretions" to be swept under the …
“Liberal” Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim by "Liberal" Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a New York federal district court?s dismissal of claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), finding that the court failed to "liberally" construe the …
Fulton County Jail Consents to Improve Dismal Conditions by David Reutter The Fulton County Jail (FCJ) has entered into an agreement to correct the “dismal environmental conditions and poor maintenance” at the facility. A Georgia federal district court approved a consent order on February 7, 2006 to solidify the badly …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Texas Prison System Faces Critical Guard Shortage by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is understaffed by 3,152 guards, a 12% deficit compared to full staffing. The shortage has grown each year from an average of 8.5% in 2004. Some prison units have …
Prison Privatization Launders Taxpayer Dollars into Political Contributions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter If you know a company is not saving you money or performing its contractual obligations, why would you continue to use that company? The normal consumer would end the relationship quickly. When it comes to …
Monterey County Grand Jury Report Blasts Two California Prisons by Marvin Mentor In its 2006 report on Monterey County?s two state prisons (Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) and the Correctional Training Facility (CTF)), the Monterey County Grand Jury made 23 findings and 13 recommendations for SVSP plus 5 findings and …
United States Sues Georgia County Jail over Unconstitutional Medical and Living Conditions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Using its investigative powers under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) investigated conditions at the Terrell County, Georgia jail …
Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women’s Jail a “Crowded Disgrace” by Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women's Jail a "Crowded Disgrace" The San Mateo County (California) Civil Grand Jury found that the decades-old Women's Correctional Center in Redwood City was so deficient that it must be …
MTC Stiffs Guards and Other Employees $169,105 by Prison guards are among the 393 employees of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), a company that shorted $169,105 in wages for work performed. MTC employs more than 2,000 workers at 24 Job Corps Centers and six prisons around the nation. The company …
Policy of Hiring Trained Medical Professionals Does Not Immunize County from Municipal Liability in Wrongful Jail Death; Case Settles for $475,000.00 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that where a Los Angeles County Jail prisoner died of allegedly deficient medical attention, …
San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Cites Continuing Jail Deficiencies by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In November 2005, the jurors of the San Francisco Grand Jury inspected city and county jails and found longstanding unremediated problems of inadequate budgets, staffing shortages, overcrowding and high (40%) recidivism rates. The Jury …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Guards Convicted of Stealing, Bringing Drugs into Washington State Private Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Security Specialists Plus (SSP) is a 60-employee firm operating out of Bellingham, Washington?s Irongate industrial area. It provides animal control services to unincorporated parts of Whatcom County, hires out private security guards, …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
California Prison Guards Awarded $440 Million Retroactive Pay Increase by California?s 30,000 prison guards, some 6,000 of whom pulled down over $100,000 last year, won an arbitration award on January 19, 2007 for retroactive pay increases totaling $440 million. Funding for this liability was not included in the California Department …
Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Another state prison system that subjected itself to the experiment of privatized medical services has learned the same hard lesson suffered by other states: a trail of inadequate care that leaves prisoners dead …
Indiana Prison Overcrowded with Inadequate Medical Care by The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City was overcrowded, and that the medical care available at the prison was constitutionally inadequate. The judgment of the trial court was affirmed in …
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