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GEO Cancels Contract at Pennsylvania Jail, Looks Elsewhere for Business by David Reutter GEO Cancels Contract at Pennsylvania Jail, Looks Elsewhere for Business by David M. Reutter GEO Group, Inc. (formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections), the second-largest private prison company in the nation, has operated the jail in Delaware County, …
Private Prison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths by Private Prison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths by Matt Clarke The private prison industry has benefited from a recent influx of contracts from the federal government to incarcerate immigration detainees. Such contracts are more lucrative than those for …
Report Criticizes Conditions in U.S. Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington by David Reutter Report Criticizes Conditions in U.S. Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington by David M. Reutter Conditions at the federal immigration center in Tacoma, Washington, are substandard and not in compliance with national standards, “much less international …
ACLU Request for Investigation into Violations at the Reeves County Detention Center, 2009 February 5, 2009 VIA EMAIL: inspector.general@usdoj.gov Glenn A. Fine Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General ATTN: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Complaints 950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Room 4706 Washington, DC 20530 Re: Request for Investigation …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
GEO Group Consultant Civilly Charged With Insider Trading by The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a civil action that alleges a consultant for private prisoner operator the GEO Group used information obtained through his contracts to engage in insider trading. Zachariah P. Zachariah, a prominent cardiologist and Republican …
Doing Borrowed Time: The High Cost of Back-Door Prison Finance by Kevin Pranis Much public attention has been devoted in recent years to the “industrial” side of the prison boom, from the fortunes of private prison operators to the profits generated by telecommunications companies from lucrative phone contracts. Less attention …
Could the Fall of Lehman Brothers Signal Trouble for Private Prison Corporations? by Bob Libal Could the Fall of Lehman Brothers Signal Trouble for Private Prison Corporations? by Bob Libal and Nick Hudson While recent business news has been dominated by the bailout of some of the nation’s largest investment …
Private Prisons a Public Disgrace in Texas by Gary Hunter So much human feces covered the floors of a GEO Group-run juvenile prison in Coke County, Texas that departing inspectors stopped outside to wipe their shoes in the grass. The Coke County Juvenile Justice Center was in such bad shape …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
GEO Group Expands into Mental Health Facilities for Business Growth by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Since 1984, the GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) has focused on operating private prisons as its business model. It is now finding a more lucrative niche in privatizing mental health facilities and civil …
Squalor, Corruption Cause Cancellation of GEO Group’s TYC Contract by Gary Hunter When Texas Youth Commission (TYC) ombudsman Will Harrell toured the privately-operated Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Bronte, Texas on September 24, 2007, he found children sleeping on dirty bed sheets, walls covered with smeared feces, urine-stained walls …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Defunct Louisiana Juvenile Private Prison Reactivated by GEO for Immigrants by A Jena, Louisiana private prison with a troubled past will experience rebirth as an immigrant detention center. The facility, built by the failed N-Group Securities company as part of a scam run by Patrick and Michael Graham, once held …
Federal Prisons Not Subject to ADA by The hearing-impaired plaintiff complained of his treatment in a Wackenhut facility while awaiting deportation. Since he has now been deported, his claim about conditions is moot, and the court lacks jurisdiction to overturn his deportation even though he says he elected not to …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
Uprising at GEO Group Illinois Jail by On June 1, 2007, forty-six prisoners at the Tri-County Justice and Detention Center in Ullin, Illinois were involved in an hour-long riot. The 226-bed jail is owned by Pulaski County but operated by Florida-based GEO Group, formerly known as Wackenhut. The disturbance began …
Egurido v. Geo Group Inc., NY, Complaint, Guard Brutality, 2008 08 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK .J i) REX EGURIDO. r AP? 11lainliff, 1388 • ZOO~ .~OMI'LAINT BR:OOl<lYN OFFICE: Index No. -agaillst- THE GEO GROUP,INC., WILLIAM ZERILLO, "JOliN" WALL, "JANE" MARK, "JANE" ANDREWS, and .101 IN …
Brief • March 28, 2008
Allison v. GEO Group, PA, Complaint, Strip Search Class Action, 2008 234 4 5167789 4 164 1 64 1 36 11 111111 !!11"#!11 1 1 1 1 1 !$ #1!""111 1 1 1 1111 % 27684 &1''1769916&8 4 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 …
Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
Bivens Action Inapplicable to Private Prison Employees by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that individual employees of a privately-operated prison are not subject to Eighth Amendment liability under a Bivens action. Before the Court was the defendants' appeal of a North Carolina federal district court's denial of …
No Criminal Wrongdoing Found in Overpayments to Florida Private Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In May 2007 the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) issued a 22-page report which found that $12.7 million in overpayments to the state's private prison contractors did not result from an intent …
Pennsylvania County Jail System Overcrowded, Under-Regulated by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Almost everyone with experience on the incarceration side of America's criminal justice system will tell you they would rather do time in prison than in a jail. The primary reason is that the overall conditions of confinement …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Texas GEO Prison Squalor Drives Idaho Prisoner to Suicide by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Seven months after arriving at the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC), a private prison in Spur, Texas operated by the GEO Group, Idaho state prisoner Scot Noble Payne, 43, was dead by his own hand. …
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