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Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Centurion, Federal Funds
Federal Charges Dropped Against Former Centurion Exec After Death of Co-Defendant Former Tennessee Prison Official by On December 6, 2025, federal prosecutors dismissed their case against Jeffrey Scott Wells, 54, a former Vice President of private prison medical contractor Centurion Health caught colluding with a former Tennessee Department of Correction …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
South Carolina Prison Guard Supervisor Pleads Guilty to Smuggling, Bribery by A former high-ranking guard with the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy on February 3, 2025, for her role in a smuggling and bribery scheme at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. As …
Details Vague on Spending from San Diego Jail Detainee Welfare Fund by The commissary operated in San Diego County jails collected enough revenue from detainee purchases to pump up the balance in its Incarcerated Persons’ Welfare Fund (IPWF) to $11.1 million by June 30, 2024. But the office of Sheriff …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Eighth Circuit Asked to Block New FCC Rules Capping Prison Phone Rates and Eliminating Ancillary Fees and Kickbacks by In a petition filed on September 30, 2024, the Republican Attorneys General of 14 states asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to block new rate caps on …
FCC Slashes Prison and Jail Phone Rates, Caps Video Call Cost, Eliminates “Site Commission” Kickbacks by On August 26, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published its final rule in the Federal Register, formalizing rulemaking that the agency issued the previous month which significantly reduces the cost of phone and …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Utah Prisoner Blows Whistle on Abuse of Federal Grants, Leading to $1.55 Million Settlement – And New Law Restricting Prisoner Records Requests by In March 2023, Utah lawmakers approved a settlement with the federal government for abusing its grants, which may also reward Reginald Williams, a state prisoner who blew …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Maryland Sheriff Charged with Illegally Procuring Machine Guns from ATF by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On April 5, 2023, the Sheriff of Maryland’s Frederick County was charged with using his office to order machine guns from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) that were supposed …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Commissary, Federal Funds
Cuyahoga County Sheriff Stripped of Jail Commissary Control After $500,000 in Inventory Goes Missing by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Council took control of the county jail commissary on March 28, 2023, after a watchdog found over $500,000 worth of items were missing. The investigation also …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Massachusetts High Court: Lawmakers Haven’t Stopped Sheriffs From Taking Kickbacks from Jail Phone Calls, and Neither Will We by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On May 17, 2022, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that sheriffs may continue the decades-old practice of collecting commissions from charges for phone calls …
Brief • February 23, 2023
USA v. Seabrook, NY, Order and Opinion Granting Motion for Reduction of Sentence, Bribery, 2023 Case 1:16-cr-00467-AKH Document 459 Filed 02/23/23 Page 1 of 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK --------------------------------------------------------------- X UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, -against- ORDER AND OPINION GRANTING MOTION FOR REDUCTION OF SENTENCE …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: Media, Federal Funds
California Sheriff’s Pay-to-Play Scandal Reflects Nationwide Corruption Potential Documented in Watchdog Report by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Engulfed in a campaign finance probe that has snagged ten others on corruption and bribery charges in an alleged “pay to play” scheme, the Sheriff of California’s Santa Clara County, Laurie Smith, …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Wellpath Founder and CEO Pleads Guilty to Federal Bribery Charges by David Reutter A lesson in why privatized prison health care is the wrong answer by David M. Reutter On Friday, January 18, 2022, three days before sentencing in a pay-to-play bribery and corruption scandal involving health care at the …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Sacramento Sheriff Used Prisoner Welfare Fund for Trips, Salaries and Equipment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to the Sacramento Bee, Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office employees used money from a fund paid for by profits from the prisoners’ commissary purchases and phone calls to pay for airline fares, hotel …
Article • February 6, 2019
Filed under: Federal Funds
Mississippi’s Prison Bribery Scandal Is in the Past, But the State Still Hasn’t Learned Its Lesson by Madison Pauly by Madison Pauly, Mother Jones, Feb. 6, 2019   Since 2014, a massive bribery scandal involving some of the most powerful prison industry corporations in America has hung like a cloud …