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Securus Faces Lawsuit Over Recorded Attorney Calls by Alex Friedmann On May 27, 2016, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Securus Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, accusing the company of recording privileged phone calls between prisoners and their attorneys as described in …
Illinois DOC Settles Lawsuit Over Mental Health Treatment by Derek Gilna It took eight years but civil rights attorneys finally prevailed in a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), entering into a settlement that requires prison officials to provide 11,000 mentally ill state prisoners with adequate mental …
Report: How Private Prison Companies Cut Corners to Generate Profit by Derek Gilna Private prison companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group earn hundreds of millions of dollars each year, averaging between $2,771 and $3,366 in profit per prisoner based on 2014 data. According to In …
Advocates Want Private Prisons Subject to Open Records Laws by Joe Watson Government accountability advocates have called for private prison companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group to be subject to open records laws – including the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) – to ensure …
Jail’s Private Medical Employees Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity by An Arizona federal district court concluded that employees of Corizon Health, a private company providing care to prisoners at the Mohave County Adult Detention Facility, “are not within the class of persons to whom qualified immunity is afforded.” The plaintiff …
Publication • July 29, 2016
GEO Group (Formerly Wackenhut) Rap Sheet, AFSC, 2004 GEO Group (Formerly Wackenhut) Rap Sheet GEO/Wackenhut Does Not Properly Screen Staff: • Four felony child pornography charges were recently filed against an assistant warden of GEO’s Lawton County Correctional Facility in Canadian County, Oklahoma. The assistant warden was freed on bail …
USA v. Reddix, MS, Grand Jury Charges - Health Assurance, DOC Epps corruption indictment, 2016
State of New York v. Armor Correctional Health, NY, MoL Support of Petition, contractual breaches malpractice fraud, 2016 FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 07/11/2016 07:58 PM NYSCEF DOC. NO. 6 INDEX NO. 450835/2016 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 07/11/2016 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------- X …
State of New York v. Armor Correctional Health, NY, Petition, contractual breaches malpractice fraud, 2016 FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 07/11/2016 03:02 PM NYSCEF DOC. NO. 1 INDEX NO. 450835/2016 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 07/11/2016 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE …
Rice v. Montgomery County, KY, Complaint, Wrongful Death Seizure, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CENTRAL DIVISION at LEXINGTON [Filed Electronically] DIANA RICE, Administratrix of the estate of RONALD CALVIN GAUNCE, deceased, and NEXT FRIEND of Mr. Gaunces’ minor child, S.C.G., PLAINTIFF v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KENTUCKY Serve: …
Betraying the Promise of Accreditation: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? by Gary Hunter Widespread disdain for people held in prisons and jails, public apathy for humane conditions in detention facilities, tough-on-crime political rhetoric and the privatization of correctional services by for-profit companies have taken a collective toll on the quality of …
Illinois Sheriff Demotes One, Fires 3, Suspends 10 after Death of Jail Detainee by Derek Gilna Lake County, Illinois Sheriff Mark C. Curran, Jr. demoted a jail supervisor and suspended ten guards over an incident in which a prisoner was paralyzed after an altercation with jailers and later died. Three …
Florida Courthouse Employees Commit Crimes with “Alarming Regularity” by A local news station reported on March 29, 2016 that Joseph Safonte, 72, was placed on desk duty after becoming the target of an internal investigation into the theft of items from the lost and found at the courthouse in Broward …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Demonstrators Protest Gates Foundation’s $2.2 Million Investment in GEO Group by Joe Watson About two dozen immigrants’ rights advocates picketed outside the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle on April 10, 2014, protesting the Foundation’s investments in the GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in …
UK Security Company’s Long History of Controversy, Misconduct by Derek Gilna According to its website, G4S is the world’s “leading global integrated security company.” Besides providing security services, it also operates private prisons and immigration detention centers, provides electronic tagging (monitoring) for offenders on community supervision and has a prisoner …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years PLN has reported extensively on the ACA and NCCHC, and the “accreditation” scams they run using taxpayer money to promote mass incarceration and the prison industry. They are not alone; many other groups like the American Jail Association and National Sheriffs’ …
Publication • June 28, 2016
FCC Fee Reduction Adjustments - Grayson County, Securus, 2016 FCC Fee Reduction Adjustments Grayson County Agenda 1. Review of FCC Order which was partially stayed 2. Explanation of revenue and commission structure and rebalance proposal 3. Review of Grayson Counties current Transactions, Commissions and Proposed Options 4. Next Steps; Commissioners …
Private Prison Firms Reap Large Profits from Immigration Detention by Gary Hunter Federal immigrant detention has long been a boon to private prison companies Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, the nation’s two largest private prison firms, both of which trade on the New York Stock Exchange. …
Company Owes Nevada Prison Industries $428,000 by Bob Sloan Nevada’s state-run prison industry program, Silver State Industries, came under attack from citizens and business owners in 2014. One criticism of the program involved the loss of jobs to non-incarcerated workers and fewer jobs available to the unemployed. Another complaint was …
Louisiana Parish Saddled With Large Jail, Large Costs by Matthew Clarke Before he pleaded guilty to taking bribes and illegally spending around $150,000 of his campaign money, resulting in a 46-month federal prison sentence in 2013, former Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana Sheriff Jiff Hingle may have started his parish on a …
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