AUGUST, 2003
August 29, 2003 - Department of Corrections
contractor blasted (Decatur Daily)
A health care contractor blasted for
allegedly inadequate care of HIV-infected patients at Limestone
Correctional Facility plans to bid for another statewide contract with
the Department of Corrections on Sept. 10. (Click
here for more)
August 29, 2003 - Jury awards millions more in
damages in death of inmate (Star-Telegram)
With no prior criminal record, the 18-year-old Arlington man hoped that
the former Mansfield boot camp would set him straight after a
drunken-driving arrest. (Click
here for more)
August 28, 2003 - Oaks in south Austin negligent
care (American-Statesman)
The parents of two girls who said their children were raped at a
treatment center for troubled youth have sued the center. (Click
here for more)
August 28, 2003 - Ex-nurse, company found
responsible in boot camp death (Star-Telegram)
A former nurse and a Florida-based private
corrections company that operated the defunct Mansfield boot camp were
responsible for the death of an 18-year-old inmate, a Tarrant County
jury decided Wednesday. (Click
here for more)
August 26, 2003 - Caps affect quality of prison
doctors, probe finds (Ohio.com)
A contractor who provides physicians work in Ohio prisons says the
state's progressively lower spending limits are causing the company to
hire doctors with less training, a newspaper and television station
reported. (Click
here for more)
August 21, 2003 - Health issues raise concerns at jail (Bradenton.com)
A bacterial infection highly resistant to treatment has hit Manatee
County jail, health officials reported Tuesday. (Click
here for more)
August 21, 2003 - San Miguel jail break fails (ABQ Journal)
San Miguel County jail officials are investigating an attempted escape
that occurred Tuesday night. (Click
here for more)
August 21, 2003 - Jail's drug machine proves
sensitive (ABQ Journal)
Angela Vigil was stunned when officials at the Guadalupe County
Correctional Facility told her she tested positive for heroin traces on
her hand at a recent visit to her son here. (Click
here for more)
August 19, 2003 - Cornell to stop running Santa
Fe County juvenile jail (AP)
Cornell Companies Inc. has decided against seeking renewal of its
contract to run Santa Fe County's juvenile jail. (Click
here for more)
August 19, 2003 - Hike death imperils permit (The
Salt Lake Tribune)
About 13 months after Ian August died while hiking in the mountains of
Utah's west desert, owners of the wilderness therapy program that took
him there are defending themselves again, this time hoping to keep the
state from shutting them down. (Click
here for more)
August 18, 2003 - County asks to have suit over
medical bills tossed (St. Petersburg Times)
Citrus County has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by
an Ocala hospital regarding the medical bill of a former jail
inmate. (Click
here for more)
August 18, 2003 - SA's private prisons are found
to be a costly waste (University Report)
South Africa's private prisons and maximum security prisons have turned
out to be an enormous waste of money, energy and time. (Click
here for more)
August 18, 2003 - Correctional workers' union
hails bar to privatization (Sun Times News)
The union representing Illinois’ 15,000 state prison employees is
praising Governor Blagojevich’s approval of legislation that would bar
the privatization of prison commissary services. (Click
here for more)
August 15, 2003 - Prisoners trapped in hijacked van sue transport
company (AP)
Three prisoners who were trapped in a van after it was hijacked in 2001
by a fellow prisoner have filed a lawsuit against the van's transport
company and two of the company's former employees. (Click
here for more)
August 15, 2003 - For-profits on the way (St. Louis
Post-Dispatch)
If, as Mayor Francis Slay is considering, management of St. Louis jails
goes private, city officials will shake hands with an industry the state
of Missouri abandoned years ago. (Click
here for more)
August 14, 2003 - Jail suicide prompts suit (ABQ
Journal)
The family of Tyson Johnson, in a federal lawsuit filed Monday, claim
that instead of tending to his psychiatric care during a 17-day stay in
the Santa Fe County jail, staff there neglected and even taunted him to
end his life. (Click
here for more)
August 14, 2003 - Inmate 14, allegedly threatened in lockup for oral
sex (ABQ Journal)
A 19-year-old federal inmate at the Santa Fe County juvenile jail is under
investigation for threatening a 14-year-old male inmate "with physical
harm" in order to get oral sex, according to a report from the Santa Fe
County Sheriff's Department. (Click
here for more)
August 14, 2003 - New prisons chief hasn't a
moment to lose (The Arizona Republic)
Petite and soft-spoken, Dora Schriro brings a thoughtful approach to the crisis
in Arizona prisons. (Click
here for more)
August 7, 2003 - Faith-based fudging (Msn.com)
The White House, the Wall
Street Journal, and Christian conservatives have been crowing since
June over news that President George W. Bush's favorite faith-based initiative
is a smashing success. (Click
here for more)
August 6, 2003 - Medicine overdose killed inmate
(The Democrat)
Autopsy results show it was a massive overdose of prescription drugs
that killed a Leon County Jail inmate earlier this year - medication
likely administered by the jail's own infirmary. (Click
here for more)
August 5, 2003 - Rapist hangs himself in
Westmoreland cell (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Three days after suddenly ending his sex assault trial with a guilty
plea, 32-year-old Marc Filippino ended his life Monday morning at
Westmoreland County Prison. (Click
here for more)
August 4, 2003 - Should county be stuck with
bill? (St. Petersburg Times)
An inmate close to death is released just before he racks up an
expensive hospital bill. The hospital sues for payment. (Click
here for more)
August 4, 2003 - Prisoner's suit claims
workhouse injuries (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Claiming he was injured by another prisoner, an inmate at the Silverdale
$600,000 lawsuit against the Hamilton County government and the operator
of its workhouse. (Click
here for more)
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