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Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Filed under: Pensions
New York City May Expand Investment Bar to Prison Service Providers by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Under a policy adopted in 2017 by the Comptroller of New York City, none of the city’s five pension funds has any investments in private prison operators due to concerns about investing public …
Publication • January 2, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons, Pensions
AFT Ranking Asset Managers Report - Private Prisons and Investment Part Two, How Private Prison Companies Fuel Mass Incarceration - and How Public Pension Funds are at Risk, 2019 RANKING ASSET MANAGERS REPORT PRIVATE PRISONS and INVESTMENT RISKS PART TWO How Private Prison Companies Fuel Mass Incarceration—and How Public Pension …
Publication • December 1, 2018
Private Equity Stakeholder Project: Private Equity-Owned Firms Dominate Prison and Detention Services, Scaled Up Immigration Detention Has Benefitted Contractors, 2018 Private Equity Stakeholder Project December 2018 PRIVATE EQUITY-OWNED FIRMS DOMINATE PRISON AND DETENTION SERVICES Scaled up immigration detention has benefitted contractors, private equity owners A handful of private equity firms, …
Article • March 28, 2017
Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years by Flint Taylor Chicago’s notorious former police commander is released from prison. A human rights lawyer representing police torture victims responds. by Flint Taylor, In These Times Today, former Chicago police commander Jon Burge, …
Article • March 14, 2017
Convicted Oregon Teachers Collect $10.8 Million Annual Pensions at Taxpayer Expense by Oregon teachers who sexually abuse students or commit other felonies still receive sizeable pensions, at a cost to taxpayers of at least $10.8 million annually, according to Freedom Foundation Oregon, a "think and action tank promoting individual liberty, …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Ohio: Garnishment from Exempt Funds in Prison Account States Mandamus Claim by The Ohio Supreme Court has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s mandamus claims related to the garnishment of exempt funds in her prison account. Ohio state prisoner Agatha Martin Williams was sentenced to 102 months and …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Florida: Drug Arrest Costs Former Prison Official Retirement Benefits by On May 10, 2016, Administrative Law Judge G.W. Chisenhall upheld a decision by the Florida State Board of Administration (Board) to strip retirement benefits from Charles G. Combs, a former major at the Florida State Prison who was arrested for …
Article • August 15, 2013
Rooker-Feldman Doctrine Bars Review of State Court Order by District Courts by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Michigan federal district court’s order that dismissed an action challenging state court orders that allowed confiscation of a prisoner’s pension benefits for incarceration costs. Three Michigan prisoners filed this putative …
Medical Review Board’s Order Properly Excluded in Connecticut Worker’s Compensation Claim by The Connecticut Supreme Court has affirmed an order by the compensation review board that approved the refusal of the workers’ compensation commissioner to admit into evidence a decision by the state medical examining board awarding a prison guard …
Article • May 15, 2010
Ninth Circuit Holds VA Benefits can Be Used to Help Pay for Incompetent Veteran's Subsistence by The Ninth Circuit has held that the Veteran's Benefits Act, which makes benefits earned by United states military veterans "exempt from the claims of creditors" (38 U.S.C. § 5301 (a) (1)), does not prohibit …
Article • May 15, 2007
Pension Fund Garnished to Satisfy Criminal Restitution Order. by A Michigan federal District Court held the government may garnish a criminal defendant's pension fund to satisfy a criminal restitution order. Both the Employee's Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1056 (d)(1), and the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U. S.C.§ …
Article • May 15, 2007
Continuing Claim Doctrine Applies to Deductions from Military Pay for Incarceration Costs by Continuing Claim Doctrine Applies to Deductions from Military Pay for Incarceration Costs The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that periodic deductions from a federal prisoner's military retirement pay constituted continuing claims, …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York "Son of Sam Law" Applies To Prisoner's Military Retirement Pay by New York "Son of Sam Law" Applies To Prisoner's Military Retirement Pay On May 8, 2006, the Supreme Court of Albany County, New York, has held that State prisoner George Wendell's military retirement pay is not exempt …
$14 Million Settlement in U.S. Corrections Corporation Pension Plan Suit by Michael Rigby In accordance with a July 29, 2002 ruling by U.S. District Judge Jennifer B. Coffman, as many as 700 former guards who worked at private prisons in Kentucky operated by U.S. Corrections Corp. could share in settlement …