Florida District Court Awards Federal Prisoner $829.65 for Lost Property by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, has awarded a federal prisoner $829.65 for lost property. Plaintiff Iris Pereira sued the United States seeking compensation for several items of personal property lost during her …
CCA Florida Jail Operations: An Experiment in Mismanagement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After being in business for twenty-three years, one would think that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) would have refined the art of running prisons and jails. Yet an examination of CCA's three jails in Florida …
Youth Dies in Florida Boot Camp; Cause of Death Questioned by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For the fifth time in five years a juvenile has died in a Florida boot camp. A videotape of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson being counseled at a Bay County boot camp facility in …
Florida Muslim's Forced Shave Challenge Remanded by David Reutter Florida Muslim's Forced Shave Challenge Remanded by David Reutter Floridas First District Court of Appeal has reversed a circuit courts order denying a petition seeking to declare the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) shave policy unconstitutional when applied to Muslims. Prisoner …
Bashimam v. City of Tallahassee, FL, Misc, Designations of Subject Matter, 2006 EXHIBIT A: Designations of Subject Matter for F.R.Civ.P. 30(b)(6) Representatives Bashimam v. City of Tallahassee, et al. Representative(s) of the City of Tallahassee shall be prepared to testify regarding: Supervision: Command structure; chain of command; reporting between command …
Former Florida Correctional Privatization Commission Official Pleads Guilty to Stealing State Funds by David Reutter Former Florida Correctional Privatization Commission Official Pleads Guilty to Stealing State Funds by David M. Reutter The former Executive Director of Floridas now defunct Correctional Privatization Commission (CPC) has pled guilty to charges of fraud and …
Florida's Juvenile Justice: Convicted Sex Offender Rapes Disabled Youth in His Care by Once again, Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) is under close scrutiny for failing to protect a severely mentally disabled teenager from sexual abuse. At the center of this scandal is Robert, an orphan with the mind …
PHS Pays $350,000 to Settle Claim for Over-Medication Death of Florida Jail Prisoner by Prison Health Services (PHS) has, once again, entered into a pretrial settlement to pay the family of a prisoner who died from the negligent care provided by PHS at Floridas Leon County Detention Center (LCOC). The …
Florida Awards $2 Million to Wrongfully Convicted Man by At its special session in December 2005, the Florida Legislature passed a bill to pay 44-year-old Wilton Dedge $2 million as compensation for a rape he did not commit. Dedge spent 22 years in Florida prisons for the sexual assault and …
Florida Closes Scandal Ridden Girls Facility, Takes Over Control of Another Juvenile Facility by Only five years after it was opened, legislators have shut down the scandal ridden Florida Institute for Girls (FIG) built at a cost of $7.9 million, FIG will remain empty until Floridas Department of Juvenile Justice …
Florida DOC's Copy Cost Assessment Rule Declared Invalid by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida's First District Court of Appeal has held the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) does not have legislative authority to support its rule regarding the amount prisoners are charged for photographic copying services, authorizing deductions …
Florida's Privatization of Prisoner Canteen Services Under Scrutiny by by David M. Reutter An October, 2004, report issued by Florida's Auditor General (AG) criticizes a contract awarded to Keefe Commissary Services (Keefe) for the operation of the Florida Department of Corrections' (FDOC) 240 prison canteens. The three-year contract that privatized …
Private Prisons Bilk $13 million From Florida; State Awards More Contracts by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida's Correctional Privatization Commission (CPC) consistently failed to safeguard the State's interests in its role as steward of privately operated correctional facilities," causing Florida's taxpayers to pay $12.7 million in questionable and …
Florida Prisoner's Disciplinary Challenges Reversed for Further Proceedings by Two separate Florida District Court of Appeals decisions have reversed the dismissal of two prisoners' civil actions that challenged disciplinary reports. Prisoner Craig A. Savery was disciplined for possession of narcotics. Savery's initial appeal to Tomoka Correctional Institution's Warden was denied. …
Florida DOC's No Bid Pharmaceutical Contract Scrutinized and Criticized by by David M. Reutter A September 2004 Florida Auditor General's Report found numerous deficiencies in the Florida Department Of Corrections' (FDOC) pharmaceutical contract with Terry Yon & Associates, Inc. (TYA). The current three-year contract became effective January 1, 2004. Its …
Florida Jury Awards $225,000 in False Arrest/Malicious Prosecution Claim by A Florida jury has awarded $225,000 in a case against the City of Clearwater and an individual detective on a claim of false arrest, malicious prosecution, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The Plaintiff claimed he was falsely arrested on …
Los Angeles County Jail Tests Prisoner Radio ID Tags by by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles (L.A.) County Sheriff's Department will spend $1.5 million to install a computerized radio ID tag system in 2006 to monitor the location of 1,900 prisoners at the Pitchess Detention Center (county jail) in …
Lethal Injection Painful, Study Suggests; U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Issue by by Michael Rigby Hundreds of prisoners killed by lethal injectionthe preferred method of execution in 37 states and the federal Bureau of Prisonsmay have suffered agonizing deaths due to a routine failure to administer enough anesthesia, according to …
GEO Group Buys Out Correctional Services Corporation by In November 2005, GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in the U.S., finalized its purchase of the Sarasota, Florida-based Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) for $6 a share -- a total of $62 million in cash -- and the assumption of $124 …
PLN Sues The Geo Group for Public Records by On Dec. 2, 2005, Prison Legal News filed a civil suit against The Geo Group, Inc. (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) in the Circuit Court for Palm Beach, Florida, demanding access to public records held by the company. The Geo Group is a …
