SEPTEMBER 2004
September 30, 2004 - DCF calls for sex
center reforms Sun-Herald
Florida's commitment center for sexually violent predators has serious
problems with employee nepotism, cover-ups of staff mismanagement,
marijuana smuggling, money laundering, and a lack of professional
response to violent incidents -- and the contractor that runs the
facility needs to do more to solve them. (Click here for more)
September 30, 2004 - Dying for dollars Fairfield Weekly
How much is the life of a troubled teenager worth? To the Tomasso
family, it was worth about $51.2 million. That's how much state money
Tomasso companies made from the suicide of 15-year-old Tabatha Ann
Brendle, according to federal prosecutors. (Click here for
more)
September 30, 2004 - Women claims she was raped at the jail Santa
Fe New Mexican
A
44-year-old woman claims she was raped in the booking area of the Santa
Fe County jail Tuesday night after guards left her alone with male
inmates, Sheriff Greg Solano said. (Click here for more)
September 30, 2004 - EEOC: Private prison
chief guilty of sexual misconduct Pueblo Chieftain
A federal agency alleged Wednesday that a high-ranking employee of a
company that operated a private prison in Olney Springs forced a female
subordinate to engage in sexual activities with him. (Click here for more)
September 30, 2004 - Santa Fe inmate says
she was raped Albuquerque Journal
A female inmate at the Santa Fe County jail has alleged that a male
inmate raped her in the facility's booking area Tuesday night, according
to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department. (Click here for more)
September 29, 2004 - Police seek escaped
homicide suspect Texarkana Gazette
A capital murder suspect, who escaped Tuesday morning from the Bi-State
Justice Building jail with two other inmates, remained at large late
Tuesday despite an intense manhunt by local law enforcement. (Click here for more)
September 29, 2004 - Crack-cocaine increases
thanks to jail: police chief The Mirror
At Monday night's council meeting, Midland Police Chief Paul Hamelin
told council the prevalence of crack cocaine in the community is on the
rise, and he attributed it to the Penetanguishene jail. (Click here for more)
September 29, 2004 - Inmate's survivors sue
Polk Des Moines
Register
Relatives of a 58-year-old diabetic arrested for reckless driving last
year have sued Polk County Jail officials, alleging that deputies and a private
medical company were negligent for allowing the man's illness to go untreated
until he died. (Click here for more)
September 28, 2004 - County to absorb major
expenses Texarkana Gazette
Bowie County will have to absorb about $390,000 in Bi-State Justice
Building expenses but property taxes will not have to be increased as a
result. (Click here for more)
September 29, 2004 - Prison lacked
inspectors before riot Courier Journal
Kentucky and Vermont did not have inspectors on site at the Lee
Adjustment Center in the months before inmates rioted at the privately
run prison. (Click here for more)
September 27, 2004 - Protest of Iraq
security contract denied Government Executive
The Government Accountability Office has denied a protest from American
security services firm DynCorp International LLC of the Army's
controversial award of a $293 million contract in March to British firm
Aegis Defense Services Ltd. to coordinate and manage the activities of
security contractors operating in Iraq.
(Click here for more)
September 26, 2004 - Bay jail inmate on the
run News Herald
An inmate disappeared from the Bay County Jail in downtown Panama City
at about 8 p.m. Friday and remained on the lam Saturday night.
(Click here for more)
September 25, 2004 - Jail death accidental
Toronto Sun
AFTER 24 hours of deliberations, a coroner's jury decided that the death
of inmate Jeffrey Elliott was accidental, but the young man's father
says he does not agree with the verdict. (Click here for more)
September 25, 2004 - State worker will
monitor Kentucky prison Times Argus
At least one state employee will be assigned to the prison in Kentucky
to ensure that Vermont's prisoners there are treated properly and to
avoid a repeat of conditions that prompted last week's riot, Corrections
Commissioner Steven Gold told lawmakers on Friday. (Click here for more)
September 25, 2004 - State considering new
prison work camp WCAX
Vermont Corrections Department officials are continuing to work on a
plan to build a second prison work camp to help ease prison
overcrowding. (Click here for more)
September 25, 2004 - Justice department
looks into inmate's death Tennessean
The U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division is investigating
the death of Estelle Richardson, an inmate and mother of two who died
after she was found ''unresponsive'' July 5 in a south Nashville prison
cell.
(Click here for more)
September 24, 2004 - Vt. corrections
commissioner says he recommended warden's removal WCAX
Vermont Corrections Commissioner Steve Gold says he recommended that the
warden at a private Kentucky prison be removed from his job. (Click here for more)
September 24, 2004 - Inmate spoke of his death IC
Ayrshire
AN INMATE at Kilmarnock Prison told Bowhouse staff he knew that he was
going to die, an inquiry heard last week.
(Click here for more)
September 23, 2004 - Blame at the big house Snitch
As a lawyer for the Alliance for Prison Justice in Vermont, Barry Kade
is quite interested in last week's fracas at the Lee Adjustment Center,
a privately run prison in Beattyville, Ky. (Click here for more)
September 22, 2004 - Former MAC employee is
suing CCA Lebanon Enterprise
A former Marion Adjustment Center employee has filed a lawsuit against
the prison's owner and operator, Corrections Corporation of America,
claiming that he was discriminated against because of his race. (Click here for more)
September 22, 2004 - Company asked to pay
$23,516 for inmate escape costs Billings Gazette
The company responsible for four maximum-security inmates who
escaped in Helena earlier this month will be asked to pay $23,516 to
cover the state and local government costs of recapturing them.
(Click here for more)
September 22, 2004 - National figures part of state House race
Dallas Morning News
Who would have thought a race to represent the working-class residents
of Grand Prairie and South Irving would include cameo appearances by
Howard Dean and the Moonies? (Click here for more)
September 22, 2004 - Texas "money
laundering" charges overlap with ethics allegations AP
The money laundering allegation in a congressional ethics complaint
filed against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay involves the same $190,000
in political contributions that led to indictments of the Texas
congressman's aides on similar charges. (Click here for more)
September
22, 2004 - Judge balks at inmate's no-contest murder plea Palm
Beach Post
Lying in the jail infirmary with a 1 1/2-foot incision in his
belly and a warning sign about staph infections on the door, inmate
Kevin Coleman decided to do something he vowed never to do — confess
to murder in exchange for freedom. (Click here for more)
September 22, 2004 - DOC concerned about
Crowley prison staff turnover Pueblo Chieftain
Part of the problem in managing rioting inmates at a private prison in
Crowley County in July was that the facility had a 45 percent turnover
rate in employees, state corrections officials told lawmakers Tuesday. (Click here for more)
September 21, 2004 - Man's hand badly
infected: Doctor The Star
By the time an inmate at Canada's first privately run jail was sent to a
hospital, a tiny cut on his finger had become so seriously infected a
lot of the fat and tissue had been destroyed, an inquest has heard.
(Click here for more)
September 21, 2004 - Not praiseworthy; Riot,
history raise doubts about prison firm Lexington Herald Leader
Folks at the state Corrections Department subscribe to a strange logic
about what constitutes good performance by a private prison company.
After inmates rioted last week at Corrections Corporation of America's
Lee Adjustment Center in Beattyville, department officials suggested
that the incident might be a plus for CCA when Gov. Ernie Fletcher's
administration gets around to choosing a company to run a new prison. (Click here for more)
September 21, 2004 - Private Crowley County
prison riot still understudy Pueblo Chieftain
Colorado Department of Corrections officials don't routinely keep
records of staffing levels, turnover rates or salary information for
private prisons housing state inmates, says DOC spokeswoman Alison
Morgan. (Click here for more)
September 21, 2004 - Prison warden relieved
of duty Rutland Herald
The warden of a private Kentucky prison that was the scene of a riot
last week was replaced Monday, the latest fallout from an uprising in
which nearly two dozen Vermont inmates took part. (Click here for more)
September 21, 2004 - Company that runs
prison replaces warden WCAX
The prison in Kentucky where a riot involving Vermont inmates took place
has a new warden. Corrections Corporation of America says it has
replaced the warden who was in charge during the uprising. (Click here for more)
September 20, 2004 - Time runs out for asylum seekers The
Age
A hunger strike, a High Court action and a direct appeal to Immigration
Minister Amanda Vanstone are among last-ditch efforts to stop the forced
return of asylum seekers to Sri Lanka. (Click here for more)
September 18, 2004 - Cushy Jail to Face
£17,000 penalties Sunday Mail
SCOTLAND'S only private jail is fined £17,000 every time a prisoner is
violent or is caught with drugs. The discovery of a mobile phone
attracts an £8000 fine.
(Click here for more)
September 17, 2004 - Report into Yarl's Wood
riots out soon Bedford Today
The long-awaited report into the riot and fire which destroyed half the
Yarl's Wood detention centre should hit the Home Secretary's desk in
three weeks.
(Click here for more)
September 17, 2004 - Guards may have aided
escape Star-Tribune
Four Texans have been jailed on charges of assisting two Wyoming inmates
in escaping from the Bill Clayton Detention Center in Littlefield,
Texas, last week. Three of the Texans worked as guards at the prison,
Littlefield Police Chief Bill McMinn said. (Click here for more)
September 17, 2004 - Free time was reduced,
abuse allegations increased before riot AP
A doubling of the population with prisoners from 1,000 miles away, cuts
in privileges and reduced time to visit with friends and family are some
of the reasons observers cite for a riot at the privately run Lee
Adjustment Center this week. (Click here for more)
September 17, 2004 - Vermont inmates
allegedly started Kentucky riot Times Argus
Four Vermont inmates helped to instigate an uprising and set a fire that
toppled a guard tower and caused extensive damage to a private prison in
Kentucky, officials said Wednesday. (Click here for more)
September 16, 2004 - 2 allegedly helped
prisoners escape Houston Chronicle
Four of the five federal inmates who escaped from a Frio County private
prison last month remained at large Thursday, but officials said they've
nabbed two people who helped the escapees vanish into a protective
underworld of prison-gang sympathizers. (Click here for more)
September 16, 2004 - State is sticking with
plan to make new prison private Herald Leader
The riot Tuesday that scorched a private prison in Lee County didn't
burn the state Corrections Department's desire to privatize its new
prison in Elliott County, officials said yesterday.
Gov. Ernie Fletcher's administration still expects to solicit
bids from companies interested in managing the 961-bed Little Sandy
Correctional Complex, set to open in January, said corrections
spokeswoman Lisa Lamb. (Click here for more)
September 16, 2004 - Prescription denied to
jail, mom says News-Press
The day before Gregory Kokolakis took his own life, he called his mother
from the Lee County Stockade in agony. "He called me crying,"
said his mother, Adrienne Croom. (Click here for more)
September 16, 2004 - Prison remains locked
down after uprising AP
A privately operated prison in eastern Kentucky was under a security
clamp and inmates were doubled up in cells, a day after prisoners
torched three buildings during an uprising. (Click here for more)
September 16, 2004 - Escaping doesn't pay:
Inmate gets 6 more years Indianapolis
Star
An inmate's 15 hours of freedom after escaping from Marion County Jail
II earned him an additional six-year prison sentence. (Click here for more)
September 16, 2004 - Inmates in lockdown
after riot Herald-Leader
It started when nine prisoners tried to tear down a wooden guard tower
in the outside recreation yard of the Lee Adjustment Center, officials
said yesterday. What followed
Tuesday night was a three-hour riot in which inmates set fires and threw
rocks before being subdued by special prison response teams armed with
nightsticks, plastic handcuffs and pepper spray.
(Click here for more)
September
16, 2004 - Prison failed inmate Toronto Sun
Three days after a deadly infection began to spread its way through
inmate Jeffrey Elliott's body, he needed emergency care. Instead, an
inquest heard yesterday, prison medical staff pumped a multitude of
antibiotics into him for three weeks, which may have contributed to his
slow, ugly death last year. (Click here for more)
September 15, 2004 - Escaped illegal immigrant pursued Caller-Times
The manhunt for an escaped prisoner continued Tuesday as officers
combed the area surrounding the Brooks County Detention Center with
dogs, on horseback and by helicopter, Sheriff Balde Lozano said. (Click here for more)
September 15, 2004 - Fawell spilling the
goods on Ryan Sun Times
Scott Fawell, once a golden boy of Illinois politics, cut a deal with
federal prosecutors Tuesday that put his lover's fate over the future of
former Gov. George Ryan, a man once like a father to Fawell.
(Click here for more)
September 15,
2004 - Autopsy detects high levels of 2 anti-depressants in inmate The
Tennessean
Two anti-depressant drugs were found at elevated levels in inmate
Estelle Richardson's body at the time of her July 5 death, but they did
not contribute to her death, according to the medical examiner and
toxicology experts.
(Click here for more)
September 15, 2004 -
Autopsy of inmate points to homicide The Tennessean
An autopsy of inmate Estelle Richardson reveals that she was slammed
into an object, perhaps a wall, with such force that it fractured her
skull, broke four ribs and damaged her liver while inside a Nashville
prison operated by the privately run Corrections Corporation of America.
(Click here for more)
September 15, 2004 - Inmates take partial
control of Lee Jail Herald-Leader
Inmates took partial control of a prison in Beattyville last night,
starting fires and claiming that they had taken at least one hostage
before state police regained control. "There was a period of time
that a small group of guards was separated from other folks inside.
Ultimately, it turned out it was not a hostage situation," Miller
said. (Click here for more)
September 14, 2004 - Prison disturbance over
in Lee County WKYT
Order is back after hundreds of inmates created a disturbance at an
Eastern Kentucky prison. Officials
say the prisoners started a number of fires that took hours to get under
control. (Click here for more)
September 14, 2004 - Still unclear how
inmate got fatal cut Ottawa Citizen
After Day 1 of an inquest into the death of Jeffrey Elliott, it remains
unclear just how the 20-year-old acquired a cut on his finger that ended
in his blood poisoning death.
(Click here for more)
September 14, 2004 - County extends contract
for food firm under cloud Sun Times
A lucrative
September 14, 2004 - TransCor back on the
job today Helena Independent Record
The company in charge of a transport van overwhelmed by convicts
Sept. 2 will be back hauling prisoners today. Montana
Department of Corrections Director Bill Slaughter said TransCor agreed
to make changes.
(Click here for more)
September 14, 2004 - Inmate's death leads to
lawsuit Tallahassee Democrat
A lawyer for the family of Ruth Hubbs has filed a lawsuit against
Prison Health Services and the Leon County Sheriff's Office over her
death in the county jail last year.
(Click here for more)
September 14, 2004 - Inmate's mother files
wrongful death lawsuit Tulsa World
The mother of an inmate who was found hanging by a ligature in his Tulsa
Jail medical cell has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the
Corrections Corporation of America, the Tulsa County Criminal Justice
Authority and the city of Tulsa.
(Click here for more)
September 13, 2004 - Junee wardens return to
work ABC
Prison officers are back on duty at Junee jail in southern New South Wales
after a seven-day strike. The action by 120 officers ended on Friday
night when members of the Miscellaneous Workers Union voted to return to
work.Union spokesman Geoff Lawler says he will be seeking a commitment
to full staffing levels at talks with GEO Australia on Wednesday.
(Click here for more)
September 12, 2004 - Bosses give prisoners
FREE Setanta, papers and milk delivered to cells Sunday Mail
Inmates at Scotland's only private prison have been given free Setanta
TV. Ordinary punters who
want to watch live Scottish Premier League football on the satellite
channel pay £450 a year.
(Click here for more)
September 12, 2004 - What warrants review
News Herald
I will not second-guess the command decision to utilize deadly force when
SWAT members stormed the Bay County jail. I will let an objective and
comprehensive afteraction investigation review those facts. There are,
however, several initial items which warrant complete review.
(Click here for more)
September 11, 2004 - Two Wyo inmates escape
from Texas facility Casper Star Tribune
Two Wyoming inmates were back in custody Friday, after escaping from a
Texas detention center the night before. Michael Solis and Jeremiah
Zupko apparently cut through a fence to escape from the Bill Clayton
Detention Center in Littlefield, Texas.
(Click here for more)
September 10, 2004 - Littlefield inmates
escape with inside help KCDB
Littlefield police arrested five people involved in a prison break at the
Bill Clayton Detention Center, a private facility in Littlefield. So
far, their investigation has led them to believe two female prison
guards, Iyvonne Delagarza and Tammy Harper, may be involved.
(Click here for more)
September
10, 2004 - Inmates sent to hospital Midland Free Press
Following a pair of stabbings at Central North Correctional Centre, an
anonymous correctional officer at the superjail said a lockdown and
subsequent search yielded a pocketknife, the same week a report was
leaked to the media about modicum staffing levels. (Click here for more)
September 10, 2004 - Ochenski: Chill in the air Helena
Independent Record
Deep vibrations in the night awakened me. For a moment, looking out
the window was like watching some cop show on TV, where the choppers pin
the inner-city bad guys in blinding pillars of light as loudspeakers
tell them to “throw down your weapons.”
(Click here for more)
September 10, 2004 - Prize given just before
killers fled Billings Gazette
On the day that four inmates escaped from a prison transport van parked
at a city Burger King, the transport service's parent company received
an award as "outstanding business of the year" from Gov. Judy
Martz.
(Click here for more)
September 9, 2004 - Halfway house employees
resign over drug use Houston Chronicle
Drug use by employees at a privately run halfway house for paroled
felons led to seven resignations this week after the facility's
corporate owners called for staffwide drug tests.
(Click here for more)
September 9, 2004 - Corrections officials
hand TransCor list of demands Montana Standard
The days of Burger King dinners may soon be over for Montana prisoners
and the private agents who transport them. (Click here for more)
September 9, 2004 - TransCor offered job to
prison chief Helena Independent Record
TransCor, the private prisoner transport service from whose custody four
inmates escaped here last week, offered a job to Corrections Director
Bill Slaughter several months before the state inked a deal with the
Tennessee-based company, records show.
(Click here for more)
September 9, 2004 - Wardens threaten force
on picket line ABC
Striking prison officers at Junee Jail in southern New South Wales are
threatening to obstruct entry to the prison unless management responds
to their demands soon.
(Click here for more)
September 9, 2004 - Jail standoff
negotiator: 'I did the right thing' News Herald
He missed. He just missed. Bay
County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Jimmy Stanford was aiming for the
inmate’s leg, aiming to end a 12-hour standoff that had quickly
dissolved, that had been calm and controlled but soon spiraled into a
violent, drug-laced nightmare.
(Click here for more)
September 9, 2004 - Ethics panel: Bay
officials' trip warrants probe News Herald
The Florida Ethics Commission on Wednesday issued probable-cause
findings on two former Bay County commissioners, a former county
attorney, a former county manager and a current county employee on
charges related to a 2000 trip to Nashville, Tenn.
(Click here for more)
September 8, 2004 - The jail standoff News
Herald
The wisdom of the bloody end Sheriff Frank McKeithen ordered to a
weekend hostage standoff at Bay County Jail will be thoroughly weighed
under more tranquil circumstances, as it should. Given the criminal
history of four inmates who took hostages and threatened to take lives,
though, the sheriff for 11 hours lived with the knowledge that these
were not just boys acting up. (Click here for more)
September 8, 2004 - Jail inmates
threatened nurse with torture, death Tallahassee Democrat
A sheriff's negotiator won the release of
three employees before a SWAT team stormed the Bay County Jail when
inmates threatened to torture and kill their remaining hostage, a nurse
who then was accidentally shot, authorities said Tuesday.
(Click here for more)
September 8, 2004 - Charges expected in jail hostage incident News
Herald
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement continued its
investigation on Tuesday into the Bay County Sheriff’s Office’s
response to a Bay County Jail hostage situation that ended in gunfire
early Monday morning.
(Click here for more)
September 7, 2004 - Nurse fired over jail love Western Mail
A nurse at a Welsh prison has been sacked after falling for an inmate.
Married Carol Evans, 43, had an affair with serial Cardiff
burglar Alan John, 27, while working as a nurse and counsellor at Parc
Prison in Bridgend.
(Click here for more)
September 7, 2004 - Inquiry into 'child jail' methods BBC
An independent inquiry will examine the way detainees are restrained and
strip searched in 'child jails'. Lord Carlile of Berriew QC will chair
the investigation, which was set-up by the Howard League for Penal
Reform.
(Click here for more)
September 7, 2004 - Prison company nears end
of battle Californian
A three-year overtime wage and benefit
court battle pitting employees against a private prison company is
finally nearing an end. A settlement agreement is set to be finalized
Sept. 27 between about 2,700 current and former employees and Wackenhut
Corrections Corp., now The GEO Group Inc.
(Click here for more)
September 6, 2004 - Forgery costs prisons over $325,000
Tallahassee Democrat
The Florida Police Benevolent Association has opened a novel new
skirmish in its long-running battle against prison privatization.
The union representing state correctional officers has asked
Attorney General Charlie Crist and Derry Harper, the governor's chief
inspector general, to investigate about $500,000 spent from a
maintenance fund that covers big-ticket repairs at the private prisons.
(Click here for more)
September 6, 2004 - Inmates hospitalized
after standoff AP
A
SWAT team stormed the Bay County Jail on Monday to end an 11-hour
hostage standoff, injuring one hostage and three inmates, authorities
said. An undetermined number of other employees were freed. The injured
hostage, a nurse, suffered a leg wound and was undergoing surgery at a
hospital, and her injury did not appear to be life-threatening.
(Click here for more)
September 5, 2004 - Thanks and some
questions Helena Independent Record
Anyone living in Helena's Central neighborhood where two escaped
murders were hiding late Thursday night has to be thankful that local
law enforcement officers were so quick to react and so thorough in their
search.
(Click here for more)
September 3, 2004 - Memo blasts CNCC staff issues Midland Free
Press
A
draft internal memo says staffing issues makes scheduling a nightmare
and that the Central North Correctional Centre is not in compliance with
its contract with the province. The
internal draft memo from deputy of operations Phil Clough to
superintendent Doug Thomson said staffing issues mean shift scheduling
"doesn't meet the needs community escorts, particularly when they
are admitted to hospital."
(Click here for more)
September 4, 2004 - Yet ANOTHER PHS suit Times Union
A Bronx woman who delivered a live baby in a jail toilet in 2001 after her premature labor allegedly was ignored for days has filed a federal civil rights claim blaming Albany County officials and a former jail nurse for her son's death.
(Click here for more)
September 4, 2004 - More debate on PHS Charlotte Observer
Gaston County officials say contracting with a private company for inmate health care saves money, but a watchdog group spokesman says such outsourcing is a growing practice that can lead to inadequate medical treatment.
(Click here for more)
September 4, 2004 - CCA escapees tried twice before Montana
Standard
Thursday's escape attempt wasn't the first for convicted murderers Russell VanKirk and William Brown.
(Click here for more)
September 4, 2004 - Another suit against CMS The Tennessean
A state prison inmate who contends that he had to wait months for surgery to repair his fractured wrist has filed suit against the private firm that provides health care for Tennessee's penitentiaries.
(Click here for more)
September 4, 2004 - TransCor employees suspended in escape Billings
Gazette
Two private inmate transport agents and their Tennessee employer have been temporarily suspended from moving Montana prisoners as officials investigate the Thursday escape of two convicted murderers from a transport van stopped here at a Burger King.
(Click here for more)
September 3, 2004 - CCA/TRANSCOR escaped murderers caught AP
Two convicted murderers escaped from a prison transport van while it was parked a fast-food restaurant, but they didn't get very far.
(Click here for more)
September 3, 2004 - CCA inmates escape TransCor van AP
Two convicted murderers escaped from a prison transport van Thursday evening at a fast-food restaurant here, Lewis and Clark County officials said.
(Click here for more)
September 3, 2004 - CCA guard denies killing inmate The
Tennessean
He says he had nothing to do with the death of Estelle Richardson, 34, an inmate whose body was found July 5 in her cell at the Metro Detention Facility.
(Click here for more)
September 2, 2004 - More on million dollar Maranatha phone scam Bakersfield
Californian
The state Department of Corrections is accusing Bakersfield businessman Terry Moreland of misappropriating more than $1 million in inmate telephone revenues at a private prison he runs in San Bernardino County.
(Click here for more)
September 2, 2004 - CACI responds Government
Executive
The president and chief executive officer of CACI International Inc., whose employees were hired by the Army to perform interrogations in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, defended his employees' qualifications and took issue with some specific findings of a recent Army report on alleged prison abuses.
(Click here for more)
September 2, 2004 - CCA/DOC pointing fingers in inmate release Tulsa
World
A man who served only about 2 1/2 years of a 16-year state court prison sentence for college grade-altering offenses was arrested Wednesday after a paperwork problem allowed him to be free for weeks before serving a consecutive federal sentence.
(Click here for more)
September 2, 2004 - Yet another medical settlement Sacramento
Bee
A contract health care provider accused of inadequately staffing a Yolo County jail has agreed to pay $825,000 to settle a lawsuit over an inmate's suicide.
(Click here for more)
September 2, 2004 - Even more trouble for PHS Palm Beach Post
A bond hearing for Kevin Coleman was canceled Wednesday after Coleman was rushed to Palm West Hospital with a ruptured appendix.
(Click here for more)
September 1, 2004 - MTC breaking contract provisions? Never! The
Star
Understaffing at Ontario's only privately run jail means the facility's U.S. operators are routinely violating their contract with the province, a confidential company document says.
(Click here for more)
September 1, 2004 - Editorial calls for PHS investigation. Charlotte
Observer
Hugh Locklear Jr. did not have a trial. Yolanda Evett Patterson had not been charged with a crime. Yet each received a death sentence while incarcerated in Gaston County.
(Click here for more)
September 1, 2004 - County renews PHS contact? Charlotte
Observer
Gaston County Jail officials renewed their contract with Prison Health Services last week, just days after the first of two people held at the jail died after complaining of illness.
(Click here for more)
September 1, 2004 - Aramark hires illegal immigrants Arizona
Republic
Federal agents arrested nine Mexican nationals Tuesday and accused them of working illegally at a Mesa plant that manufactures military helicopters.
(Click here for more)
September 1, 2004 - Two for-profit medical providers (?) can't
meet requirements Pueblo Chieftain
Neither of two companies seeking to provide medical and mental health services at the Pueblo County Jail can meet the county's requirements.
(Click here for more)
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