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April 28, 2006 - Superjail is going public Midland Free Press Canada’s first privately operated adult prison is being turned over to the province. (Click here for more) April 27, 2006 - Private jail's going public The Star Canada's only privately run jail is going public again. (Click here for more) April 27, 2006 - Private jail operation contract not renewed Government of Ontario Ontario will transfer the operation of the Central North Correctional Centre in Penetanguishene to the public sector, Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Monte Kwinter announced today. (Click here for more) April 26, 2006 - Drama builds in jail lawsuit News Herald Circuit Court Judge Glenn Hess heard arguments Monday in Bay County’s motion to dismiss a correctional company’s lawsuit accusing the county of wrongdoing in awarding a contract to Corrections Corporation of America for jail construction and operation. (Click here for more) April 25, 2006 - Cushing guard faces prison charge Cushing Daily News A Cushing woman has been charged with possession of marijuana at the Cimarron Correctional Facility while she was working at the private prison in Cushing as a guard. (Click here for more) April 22, 2006 - Contents of envelope opened at prison sends two to hospital Palm Beach Post Two people were sickened and taken to the hospital after being exposed to a substance found in an envelope Friday at the South Bay Correctional Facility, according to Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue. (Click here for more) April 21, 2006 - Ex-prison privatization chief sentenced Tallahassee Democrat With a prosecutor calling him a bigger crook than some inmates in the privatized prisons he used to oversee, Alan Duffee got nearly three years in federal prison Thursday and was ordered to repay more than $224,000 he admitted siphoning out of state funds. (Click here for more) April 20, 2006 - Nurse's prison dream man turns into worst nightmare Boston Herald Just like the 1938 melodrama “Prison Nurse,” passions boiled over behind bars for real-life slammer medic Sandra Rosa when she became fevered for a caddish con she met inside the Middleton jail. (Click here for more) April 20, 2006 - Jail privatization goes to arbiters Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The fate of Beaver County's push to privatize the county jail now rests in the hands of Marc Winters, an arbiter from Butler County. (Click here for more) April 18, 2006 - Two Wyoming inmates caught after escape from Texas prison AP Two Wyoming inmates have been recaptured after escaping from a Texas jail over the weekend, according to the Wyoming Department of Corrections. (Click here for more) April 15, 2006 - Foiled Bay News 9 Hernando County Jail officials said they've unraveled an escape plot that involves a submarine sandwich and a jail employee. (Click here for more) April 14, 2006 Cibola Beacon New Mexico ACLU executive director Peter Simonson recently announced the organization filed legal papers to force the New Mexico Department of Corrections to rectify inmate overcrowding at the New Mexico Women’s Correctional Facility in Grants. (Click here for more) April 13, 2006 - Louisiana firm says deal for detention center still on Caller-Times The county's deal to build a $20 million detention center near Robstown is on no matter what the outcome of November's general election between sheriff candidates Jimmy Rodriguez, a Democrat, and Republican Jim Kaelin. (Click here for more) April 12, 2006 - Task force probes net five arrests Floyd County Times Criminal activity continued to plague Otter Creek Correctional Center this week with the arrest of their drug counselor on charges of drug trafficking. (Click here for more) April 12, 2006 - Inspector questions private prison contract Politics.Co.UK The government has been forced to defend its use of private contractors to run Britain's prisons in the wake of a critical report from the chief inspector. (Click here for more) April 12, 2006 - Firm fails twice to get prisoners to courts Evening Times A PRIVATE prison security firm came under fire today after it took prisoners to the wrong courts and held up proceedings twice in one day. (Click here for more) April 12, 2006 - Watchdog slams prison as 'squalid' The Mirror DONCASTER prison has been described as "squalid" and showing signs of "institutional meanness" in a damning report by the jails' watchdog. (Click here for more) April 11, 2006 - Inmate injected with expired drugs demands answers NBC2 A former Charlotte County inmate is demanding answers after two nurses at the Charlotte County Jail took drugs out of a bio-hazard trash bin and injected him with the drugs. (Click here for more) April 9, 2006 - Jail report stirs relief and regret St Petersburg Times For all the problems at the Hernando County Jail in recent months - the suicides, the fingerprinting errors, the escape of a prisoner - no one is criminally culpable. (Click here for more) April 9, 2006 - Teen mother says prison neglected her News-Journal Kimwayna "Kim" Allen gave birth to twins in a toilet stall at Baylor Women's Correctional Institution last month, after she says a prison nurse employed by Correctional Medical Services ignored her complaints of powerful contractions, which began 24 hours prior to the births. (Click here for more) April 9, 2006 - If Alvarez wins, LCS kills detention center deal KRIS TV The company proposing a detention center in Robstown has issued an ultimatum that could effect the outcome of the Democratic runoff for sheriff. (Click here for more) April 8, 2006 - Hospital requests action News-Herald Bay Medical Center’s CEO wants the county and local municipalities to take on greater responsibility for criminals and police suspects who are treated at the hospital. (Click here for more) April 8, 2006 - Guard charged with sexual abuse Lexington Herald-Leader A guard at Otter Creek Correctional Center has been charged with sexual abuse after he allegedly gave food and candy to a female inmate for oral sex, Kentucky State Police say. (Click here for more) April 7, 2006 - America Service faces potential class action Tennessean The law firm of Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP said yesterday that a potential class-action lawsuit has been filed in federal court here on behalf of investors who bought stock in America Service Group Inc. between Sept. 24, 2003, and March 16, 2006. (Click here for more) April 6, 2006 - LULAC has questions about private correctional facility KRIS TV LULAC claims a private prison company that county leaders approved poses a danger to the community. (Click here for more) April 6, 2006 - Caldwell escapee commits suicide in Winn Parish The Town Talk An Olla man who escaped from the Caldwell Correctional Center in Clarks committed suicide tonight at a hunting camp near Dodson in Winn Parish, authorities said. (Click here for more) April 6, 2006 - Prisoners murdered fellow inmate BBC Two prisoners who murdered a fellow inmate in his cell five days before his release have been jailed for life. (Click here for more) April 6, 2006 - French cells 'are like dog kennels' Gulf Daily News Holding cells used by British immigration officials at a French freight terminal were so crowded and filthy that staff called them "the dog kennels," a prison watchdog said yesterday. (Click here for more) April 5, 2006 - Jail nurses fired over old medicine Herald Tribune Two nurses charged with the care of inmates in the county jail were fired for giving an inmate expired medication taken from a biohazard disposal box. (Click here for more) April 5, 2006 - Jail gets new health-care group Arizona Star Health care at the Pima County jail soon will be the responsibility of one of the nation's largest private providers of medical care in jails and prisons. (Click here for more) April 5, 2006 - Prison nurses stay away from work, fear safety SABC News About 12 nursing staff of the Kutama-Sinthumule private prison in Limpopo are staying away from work saying they don't feel safe in the prison. (Click here for more) April 4, 2006 - Allegations raise questions about prison privatization Citrus County Chronicle A recent lawsuit filed by four former Citrus County Correctional Facility inmates alleging prisoner abuse has placed Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which operates the facility, in the public spotlight. (Click here for more) April 2, 2006 - Prisoner from here allegedly brutalized Honolulu Advertiser Two captains and a sergeant at a privately run Mississippi prison were fired after they were allegedly videotaped beating an inmate from Hawai'i, according to the Hawai'i Department of Public Safety. (Click here for more) April 1, 2006 - Former Lost Gap prison guard receives suspended sentence Meridian Star A former guard at East Mississippi Correctional Facility at Lost Gap received a three-year suspended sentence this week in Lauderdale County Circuit Court for helping two prisoners escape last year. (Click here for more) April 1, 2006 - Splitting of
pills to be taken over by DOC from company Gainesville Sun
The Florida Department of Corrections has taken the unusual step of
ending a contract for the splitting of pharmaceutical drugs, bowing to
legislative pressure on the matter.
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