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Florida Lawmakers Disband Correctional Medical Authority by The Florida legislature did an end-run around a veto by the Governor by eliminating funding for the state’s prison medical oversight agency, thereby causing it to disband. With Florida turning to private companies to provide prisoner healthcare services, there is concern that medical …
Florida Citizen Fights CCA over Public Records Request by Prison officials tend to frown on public records requests. In fact, employees at a Florida facility operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) were so ruffled by a citizen’s request for records that they called the cops. Joel Chandler, 47, has …
Florida Court Permits Female Prisoner's Lawsuit for Forced Sex with Guard to Go Forward by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna A Florida District Court has permitted parts of a lawsuit by a female prisoner for being forced into sex by a male prison guard to go forward, finding that questions …
Article • May 15, 2012
Soy-Based Meals: Cruel & Usual in Florida by Soy-Based Meals: Cruel & Usual in Florida "Excessive soy can be toxic to the thyroid gland," according to Sally Fallon Morell, president and treasurer of the Weston A. Price Foundation. "It can have hormonal effects." Of course, the excessive flatulence and cramping …
Brief • April 20, 2012
Mithchell v. McKeithen, FL, Complaint for Damages, Wrongful Death Failure to Treat, 2012 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PANAMA CITY DIVISION RUTH MITCHELL, as Personal CIVIL DIVISION Representative of the ESTATE OF Case No. 5:14-cv-157 JAMES TIMOTHY BUCHANAN, on behalf of the Estate …
Florida Senate Rejects Privatization of 27 State Prisons – but Just Barely by PLN’s February 2012 cover story described how the Florida legislature tried to privatize almost thirty state prisons, work camps and work release centers in 2011 by slipping proviso language into the state’s budget appropriations bill. That wholesale …
Bearden v. McKeithen et al, FL, Plf Notice of Serving - McKeithen, failure to treat wrongful death jail, 2011
Brief • March 27, 2012
Weekley v. Adkinson, FL, Complaint, Police Killing of Unarmed Victim, 2012 Case 3:12-cv-00139-RS-CJK Document 1 Filed 03/27/12 Page 1 of 16 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PENSACOLA DIVISION IRIS WEEKLEY, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jeffery Weekley and on behalf of …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Exec with GEO Group, which Operates Immigration Detention Facilities, Intimidates Immigrant In-Law by Thomas M. Wierdsma is the Senior Vice President for Project Development at The GEO Group, Inc., a Boca Raton, Florida-based company that, according to its 2010 annual report, operates “a broad range of correctional and detention facilities …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Florida Jail to Discontinue Providing Underwear by David Reutter As a cost-cutting measure, Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd has decided his jail will no longer provide underwear to prisoners. “There’s no state law, there’s no federal law that says we have to provide underwear in the county jail,” he …
Breedlove v. Demings, FL, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death and Fabrication of Evidence, 2012 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION ESTATE OF TOREY ADRELL BREEDLOVE by TIFFANY BREEDLOVE as personal representative, on behalf of the Estate and the Survivors, Sons 1 and 2 and Daughters 1 and …
Article • February 15, 2012
Florida U.S. District Court Denies Motion for New Trial in Fourth Amendment Case, Upholds Big Damage Award by A Florida Federal District Court denied a motion for new trial following a jury verdict against Jefferson County deputies, after six days of trial concerning an illegal stop and search made by …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
FBI Looks into Relationship between GEO Group and Former Florida House Speaker by David Reutter In March 2011, PLN reported on the political machinations that led to the construction of Florida’s Blackwater River Correctional Institution (BRCI), which is operated by GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison firm. BRCI was …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
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Agreement Between Florida DOC and DOT Steals 1,000 Freeworld Jobs by David Reutter With an economic malaise still affecting the nation, millions of people are looking for work. Florida is among the states that have seen job losses over the past four years, and ex-cons are especially hard-pressed to find …
Article • February 15, 2012
Politics as Unusual: Senate President Crosses the Line by Randy Berg Politics as Unusual: Florida Senate President Crosses the Line by Randall C. Berg, Jr. On February 1, Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos (R- Melbourne) removed Senator Mike Fasano (R-New Port Richey) from his position as chairman of the Budget …
Article • February 15, 2012
PLN Exclusive! Exec with GEO Group Informs Daughter-in-Law He will Report Her to Immigration Authorities by PLN Exclusive! Exec with GEO Group, which Operates ICE Facilities, Informs Daughter-in-Law He will Report Her to Immigration Authorities Thomas M. Wierdsma is the Senior Vice President for Project Development at The GEO Group, …
Article • February 15, 2012
Florida: Legislature's Attempt to Shift Overhead Costs of Appointed Counsel for Indigents from State to Counties Deemed Unconstitutional by The Florida Supreme Court has held that section 19 of chapter 2007-62, Laws of Florida, impermissibly shifts responsibility for funding overhead costs of court-appointed counsel from the state to the counties, …
Florida Provides Lesson in How Not to Privatize State Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When Florida lawmakers used a backdoor approach to try to privatize almost 30 state detention facilities in 2011, they likely did not anticipate the outcome. By the time the political dust had settled, …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Alaskan Private Prison Promoter Arrested in Mexico, Extradited to U.S. on Child Sexual Abuse Charges by In the 1980s, Bill Weimar became a rich man when his company, Allvest Corporation, owned and operated a chain of private halfway houses in Alaska. He heavily promoted building a private prison in Alaska, …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
GEO Group Ends Florida PAC by An audit by the Florida Department of State found that the GEO Group, Inc., the nation’s second-largest private prison company, had been violating Florida law by making contributions to politicians from GEO’s Political Action Committee (PAC) in excess of the $500 limit. In a …
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