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Now Under Federal Receivership, New York City’s Rikers Island Jails Still Have No Plan to Improve, No Firm Date to Close by Chuck Sharman With its sixth and seventh detainee deaths of the year coming just minutes apart on June 20, 2025, New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex eclipsed …
Tennessee DOC Rewards CoreCivic with Pay Increase Despite Critical Watchdog Audit by When Tennessee lawmakers adopted a new $52.8 billion state budget on April 18, 2024, it hiked outlays for the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to $233 million, a $9.8 million increase that mostly went to private prison giant …
Tennessee DOC Faulted for High Staff Vacancy and Turnover, Inadequate Programs, PREA Violations by The Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury’s Division of State Audit released a performance audit of the state Department of Correction (DOC) on December 12, 2023. Covering a four-year period ending the previous July 31, 2023, the …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
West Virginia Slammed for High Costs, Low Quality of Privatized Prison Food by Before food service in West Virginia’s prison system was taken over by Aramark Correctional Services, the nation’s largest for-profit food service provider in prisons and jails, all meals were prepared by prisoners, often using fresh vegetables grown …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
California Adds Statewide Detention Monitors Overseeing Local Jails by Quietly, on October 4, 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law a measure to boost transparency in the state’s local jails, also adding a layer of oversight vested in a new statewide “detention monitor”—who will act much like an …
DOJ Finds ADA Violations in Arizona Prisons, Demands Improvements by On July 19, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) warned the director of Arizona’s Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR), Ryan Thornell, that the state prison system systemically discriminated against prisoners with vision-related disabilities. The letter from the …
MTC Returns $5.125 Million to Mississippi for “Ghost Workers” at Private Prisons by Utah-based Management & Training Corporation (MTC) announced on September 18, 2023, that it returned $5.125 million to the Mississippi Department of Corrections (DOC), after a state investigation found the private prison operator understaffed lockups operated for DOC. …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Maine Prison Official Charged with Theft and Bribery in Decade-Long Kickback Scheme by A deputy prison superintendent with the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) was arrested and charged with theft and bribery on July 25, 2023. Gerald E. Merrill, 61, is accused of using his state-issued credit card over the …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Officials of Pennsylvania Guards Union Charged with Theft by Five former officials of the Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association (PSCOA) were charged with theft in July 2023 after allegedly misappropriating union funds for personal expenses and conspiring to cover it up. A financial crimes investigation by a state police organized …
Corrections Special Applications Unit Builds a Lucrative National Track Record of Abuse and Torture by J.D. Schmidt by J.D. Schmidt On December 13, 2021, a group of 49 current and former prisoners sued the York County Prison (YCP) in Pennsylvania, along with a contractor hired to train its guards, Corrections …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Whistleblower Alleges Hawaii Prison Officials Provided False Audit Data by Kevin Dayton A staffer says false data in a 2018 audit of the Maui jail hid deviations from staffing requirements under the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act. by Kevin Dayton, Honolulu Civil Beat State officials submitted data for a federal …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Audit Reveals Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Chaplaincy Services Branch Critically Depleted by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The Office of the Inspector General completed an audit of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Chaplaincy Services Branch (CSB) in July 2021. The CSB is responsible for the BOP’s religious services …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Arizona Auditor’s Report Finds Underfunding of DOC’s Capital Funding Requests and Unreconciled Prisoner Trust Fund Accounts by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In October 2020, the Arizona Auditor General’s Office published a report on a performance audit of the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DOC). The audit reviewed the …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Study Analyzes Deaths of Parole-Approved Texas Prisoners Awaiting Release by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A national audit of state parole systems conducted in 2019 gave Texas an “F” grade, noting it had some of the most burdensome requirements prisoners must meet before being approved for parole. Now a new …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Sen. Warren Investigation Exposes Broken Prison Accreditation System by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Progressive criminal justice reform has been slow to make it into the political mainstream, but one area where it is getting increased traction is around the use of private prisons. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Auditor Appalled at Lack of Spending Controls in Mississippi Prison System by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Mississippi State Auditor on December 16, 2020, issued a report that made 18 findings of deficiencies within the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). MDOC has been plagued with violence, staff shortages, …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Corrections Audits
Dept of Justice Notice Re Investigation of Alameda County, John George Psychiatric Hospital and Santa Rita Jail 2021 U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General 950 Pennsylvania Ave, NW - RFK Washington, DC 20530 April 22, 2021 Keith Carson President Alameda County Board of Supervisors 1221 Oak …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Corrections Audits
CA Office of the Inspector General, Special Review of the California Dept of Corrections and Rehabilitation, 2021 Roy W. Wesley , Inspector General Bryan B. Beyer, Chief Deputy Inspector General OIG OFFICE of the INSPECTOR GENERAL Independent Prison Oversight February 2021 SPECIAL REVIEW The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Corrections Audits
CA State Auditor, CA, Audit of California Prison Industry Authority, 2021 California Prison Industry Authority It Gave Nearly $1.3 Million in Unlawful Gifts to Other State Agencies and Repeatedly Violated Merit‑Based Employment Principles July 2021 INVESTIGATIVE REPORT I2019‑0559 CALIFORNIA STATE AUDITOR 621 Capitol Mall, Suite 1200 | Sacramento | CA …
Publication • July 1, 2020
Audit of the United States Marshals Service's Contract Awarded to the GEO Group, Incorporated to Operate the Robert A. Deyton Detention Facility, Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, 2020 RE D A CT ED FOR PUB L IC REL EAS E L IM ITE D O F F …
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