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Overcrowding Forces Alabama Prisoners Into Private Prison Web by Gary Hunter Court orders have forced Alabama to reduce the number of prisoners in its county jails and send half of its prison population to two other states. Until recently the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) had crammed 28,000 prisoners into …
Controversy and Lawsuits Surround South Texas Private Prison Deals by by Matthew T. Clarke Cotulla, a south Texas town known or the illegal drug-sting convictions of a quarter of its African-American citizens, now has a new claim to infamy -- private prison scams. Cotulla, population 3,000, is the county seat …
Florida Work Release Prisoners Ripped Off by Private Transport Company by David Reutter Florida Work Release Prisoners Ripped Off by Private Transport Company by David M. Reutter In response to a new law, effective Oc-tober 1, 2003, that prohibited state prisoners from driving state vehicles, the Florida Department of Corrections …
Cornell Company - The Prison Industry's Enron by Gary Hunter It was not an earthshaking day when Cornell Corrections was founded in 1991. It was more like a pebble plummeting over a cliff, leading to a landslide of greed and corruption. Backed by Dillon Read Venture Capital, David Cornell's callous …
$40.1 Million Verdict Against CSC in Texas Prisoner's Medical Neglect Death by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A Tarrant County, Texas jury awarded $35 million for negligence in the death of a boot camp prisoner, plus $5.1 million in punitive damages, against Florida-based Correctional Services Corp. (CSC) and …
California DOC Under Fire For Ex-Con Job Placements by Lonnie Burton In March 2003, California lawmakers launched an investigation seeking information as to why the state Department of Corrections (DOC) assisted in placing former prisoners in jobs that were termed questionable and inappropriate. DOC officials were called to testify and …
Private Transport Company Settles Female Prisoner's Sexual Assault Suit by Private Transport Company Settles Female Prisoner's Sexual Assault Suit Extraditions International, Inc., now defunct, and its successor company, American Extraditions, Inc., settled with a female prisoner who claimed she had been sexually harassed and sexually assaulted by a company guard …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
Kickbacks Dominate Fresno Jail Contracts by Gary Hunter Close scrutiny is being given to the Sheriff's Foundation for Public Safety and its leader, Fresno County Sheriff Richard Pierce. Many large donations received by the organization come from companies that have contracts with Fresno County. Pierce and eight other high-ranking sheriffs …
DeLay/TRMPAC Indictments Include Cornell Contributions by by Matthew T. Clarke On September 21, 2004, a Travis County, Texas, grand jury handed down 33 felony indictments against people and corporations associated with Republican U. S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom Delay and the Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action …
Cornell Half Way House Employees Charged with Drug Trafficking by The Ben Reid Community Correctional Facility in northeast Houston is run by Houston-based Cornell Companies, Inc., under a $4.8 million contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In May, 2004, Roy Thomas, 50, Ben Reid's director of employee training, …
Federal Judge Strikes Down Iowa Prison's Faith-Based Rehabilitation Program by Michael Rigby A federal judge in Iowa has ruled that the state's partial funding of a Christian rehabilitation program is unconstitutional. In a 140-page opinion issued on June 2, 2006, U.S. District Judge Robert W. Pratt ordered the Iowa Department …
Corruption Catches Up With Georgia Corrections Chief by by Gary Hunter Bobby Whitworth, former Corrections Commissioner and Parole Board Member, was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Friday, July 25, 2003. Charged with felony public corruption, Whitworth, 56, is the first such official ever to be indicted on corruption …
Court Reporter Jailed for Botching VitaPro Trial Transcripts; Convicted Prison Chief Still Free by The latest development in the unsavory Texas VitaPro scandal is the jailing of a court reporter for botching the transcripts in the VitaPro trial. In 1995, George W. Bush was the governor of Texas and James …
The Deadly Health Services of Naphcare in Alabama by Lonnie Burton It is often said that you can tell a lot about a society by checking the condition of its prisons. Based on the way prisoners in Alabama are treated (or, more accurately stated, not treated), citizens of that state …
Wackenhut's Legacy of Shame in Austin by by Matthew T. Clarke The price of attending the March 1997 South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, came very high for Dallas record producer David Prater. Busted for a minor drug possession, in 1998 Prater was sentenced to 250 days in …
Scandal-Ridden, Bankrupt MCI WorldCom Wins No-Bid California Prisoner Phone Contract by Marvin Mentor A renewed four-year no-bid prisoner phone contract was awarded in June, 2002 by the California Department of General Services to MCI WorldCom, a telephone conglomerate whose recent bankruptcy exposed the largest accounting fraud in US business history …
Kansas Sheriff, Lawyer, Jailed for Sweetheart Jail Contract by Negotiating their way out of 21 felony bribery charges, a former Kansas sheriff and a lawyer-cum-executive for a private prison contractor each pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of conflict of interest on December 18, 2002, getting only one year in …
CSC: More Misery and Misfortune by C.C. Simmons Page 1 of the August 2002 issue of Prison Legal News carried a story about Correctional Services Corporation (CSC), the scandal-ridden private prison outfit beset with self-inflicted troubles. Since that story appeared, CSC's troubles have multiplied. Consider the following: Ø In August …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
Texas Medical Provider Investigated for Mixing, Selling Bodies by Texas Medical Provider Investigated For Mixing, Selling Bodies Officials at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (UTMB) are investigating the improper handling of at least 78 bodies donated to the Willed Body Program, which uses them for education and …
YSI: Another Death, Another Settlement by Youth Services International (YSI), a company already under fire for a multitude of problems, including contract violations, financial mismanagement, prisoner mistreatment and prisoner deaths, was again in the news this past September. YSI, a subsidiary of Corrections Services Corporation, operates juvenile prisons, including boot-camp-style …
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