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Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Stock Prices for Private Prison Firms Surge After Trump Elected President by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election early on the morning of November 9, 2016. Before that day was over, the stock prices for private prison companies GEO Group …
HRDC Supports Lawsuit Against Jailing of Immigrant Children by The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent organization of Prison Legal News, has joined a friend-of-the-court brief in a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s practice of holding young, immigrant children in prison-like facilities for indefinite periods of time. In an …
HRDC Condemns CoreCivic’s Rejection of Resolution for More Oversight by On February 15, 2017, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), PLN’s parent organization, condemned CoreCivic, the nation’s largest for-profit prison operator – formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America – for rejecting a shareholder resolution seeking independent audits of the …
Report: How Private Prison Companies Exercise Influence Over Public Officials by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis An October 2016 report released by In the Public Interest (ITPI), a research and policy group that opposes the privatization of government services, details the millions of dollars spent by for-profit prison companies to …
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons
Privately-run Montana Jail Remains Mostly Empty Since 2007 by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In an odd twist in this age of prison and jail overcrowding, the Two Rivers Regional Detention Facility (TRRDF) in Hardin, Montana has had an awfully difficult time finding prisoners to fill its beds. Opened in …
Article • March 31, 2017
Prison Reform, Proposition 47 and the California Shell Game by Nancy Heitzeg and Kay Whitlock by Nancy A. Heitzeg and Kay Whitlock, Truthout In the deep fog of the yard at Central California Facility for Women (CCFW), the bright shiny headlines declaring California Proposition 47 (which reclassifies certain property and drug …
Gaffney v. Corizon Health, et al., FL, settlement, herniated disc, 2017
Tinkham v. GEO Group, NM, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2017 FILED IN 4th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT 3/29/2017 2:44:04 PM blc FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COU~TY OF GUADALUPE STATE OF ~EW MEXICO MICHAEL TINKHAM, Plaintiff, Case ~o.: Y, D-424-CV-2017-00035 Sandoval, Matthew J. THE GEO GROUP and JOH~ DOE 1, JOH~ DOE …
James v. CoreCivic, NM, Settlement, Employment Retaliation, 2017 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF CIBOLA THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MARY B. JAMES, Plaintiff, vs. No. D-1333-CV-2015-00207 CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, a foreign corporation, Defendant. SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE WHEREAS, Mary James (hereinafter referred to as "Plaintiff'), having filed a …
Article • March 27, 2017
Filed under: Corizon, Medication, Hepatitis
The Class Action Cure by Mike Mosedale by Mike Mosedale, Minnesota Lawyer Among the peculiar ironies about the intersection of medicine, public policy and the law in contemporary American life, not many are weirder than the fact that only one segment of the nation’s population –and a largely reviled one, at …
Johnson v. Davida, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case: 1:15-cv-11016 Document #: 84 Filed: 03/27/17 Page 1 of 12 PageID #:201 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DONNELL JOHNSON(R-68433) Plaintiff, v. DR. ARTHUR DAVIDA, RANDY PFISTER, DR. LOUIS SHICKER and WEXFORD HEALTH …
Benge v. Ryan, AZ, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2017 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release ("Settlement Agreement") is entered into, by and among ROBERT JOSEPH BENGE, former Arizona Department of Corrections ("ADC") i n m a t e - individually (the "Plaintiff'), and JOSH SANTO, his agents, representatives, …
Publication • March 21, 2017
HRDC letter in support of CA SB29 re immigrant detention - March 2017 Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS March 21, 2017 The Honorable Senator Ricardo Lara State Capitol, Room 5050 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: Support for SB 29 – Immigrant Detention Dear Senator Lara: The Human …
Corrections Corporation of America Held in Contempt of Court for Falsifying Records at Idaho Prison by Lonnie Burton On May 23, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed an Idaho federal district court ruling that found Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) -- a private prison …
Lujan v. Wetzel, NM, Settlement, Religious Freedom, 2017 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, RELEASE, AND COVENANT OF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the sum of EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($8,500.00), paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, MONICA LUJAN does hereby release, …
Hope v. Welty, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case 3:16-cv-00327-NJR-MAB Document 65 Filed 03/17/17 Page 1 of 20 Page ID #512 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS GREGORY HOPE, N50178, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) TAMMY WELTY, ) KIM WOODS, PATRICK RIGGS, ) …
Garcia v. CoreCivic, NM, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2017 SETTLEMENTAGREEMENT,RELEASE, AND COVENANTOF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the sum of FORTY-SIX THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($46,000.00), paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, HENRY GARCIA does hereby release, acquit, and forever discharge CORRECTIONS …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Louisiana’s High Incarceration Rate Economically Motivated by David Reutter It’s a well-known fact that the United States has around five percent of the world’s population but incarcerates approximately 25% of the world’s prisoners. Within that disturbing statistic is Louisiana, which has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the nation …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Despite Lack of State License, ICE Family Detention Center Continues Operating by In 2015, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (PDHS) issued a statement saying it “believes that the current use of the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC) as a family residential center is inconsistent with its current license as …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Australia, New Zealand and UK Have Higher Proportion of Prisoners in Private Prisons by History will remember the United States as the first country in the world to privatize its prisons and jails; the modern era of prison privatization began when Corrections Corporation of America (now known as CoreCivic) was …
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