FEBRUARY, 2004
February 29, 2004 - New jail fee questioned (Cibola Beacon)
Some families of inmates housed in the Cibola County Detention Center
are upset at the fees being charged to prisoners. (Click
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February 28, 2004 - CCA wants 2,500 inmates (AP)
A private prison company from Tennessee has told the Department of
Correction it plans to bid on housing up to 2,500 prisoners in its
facilities. (Click
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February 27, 2004 - CiviGenics target of audit (Lowell Sun)
A Worcester-based health-care company that provides substance-abuse and
mental-health services to teens, prison inmates, and others improperly
billed the state for more than $17 million in management fees over a
10-year period, according to a report issued yesterday by state Auditor
Joseph DeNucci.
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here for more)
February 27, 2004 - Blanco reappoints prisons chief without panel
recommendation (The Advocate)
Gov. Kathleen Blanco rejected advice from one of her transition
committees and reappointed Richard Stalder as secretary of the
Department of Corrections.
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here for more)
February 26, 2004 - Two inmates sentenced in
death of fellow Panhandle prisoner (AP)
One Bay County Jail inmate received 10 years in prison
and another received five years after pleading no contest to charges
stemming from the beating and stomping death of another inmate.
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here for more)
February 26, 2004 - State to compete with
private companies for state contract
(Sun Capital Bureau)
Gov. Kenny Guinn's administration is going to try to find another
private company to run the state women's prison in North Las Vegas, but
the state may eventually become the operator. (Click
here for more)
February 26, 2004 - Privately run prisons
are a big mistake (Las Vegas Sun)
Not long after signing its current three-year contract with the state,
which expires Oct. 1, the Corrections Corporation of America began
complaining. (Click
here for more)
February 25, 2004 - Jailers share how to
deal with issues (BG daily news)
Warren
County Regional Jail is not alone in the problems it faces.
(Click
here for more)
February 25, 2004 - Jail medical provider
says state wants it to pay $3.25 million (Palm Beach Post)
The company that provides medical care to Palm Beach County and St.
Lucie County jail inmates says it made a profit of $11.9 million last
year -- and that the Florida Attorney General wants it to repay $3.25
million in wrongful Medicaid claims. (Click
here for more)
February 25, 2004 - Prison contractor won't renew pact (Las Vegas
Review-Journal)
The company running the state's only privately run prison will not renew
its contract because of mounting financial losses. (Click
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February 25, 2004 - Ex-manager cites
problems with jail's backup supplier (Lawyer Texas Parole)
Mid-States Services - the Hurst company in line to take over Tarrant
County's jail food contract if the current company fails to do a better
job -- has its own food-quality problems, a former Mid-States manager
told commissioners Tuesday. (Click
here for more)
February 24, 2004 - Grand jury criticizes private prison operator (Palm
Beach Post)
Healthy profits for a private company caused dangerous conditions and
inmate injuries at a local prison while state officials looked the other
way, according to a grand jury report released Monday.
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here for more)
February 24, 2004 - State police to patrol
CSC facility (Baltimore Sun)
A fight yesterday involving four teen-agers and a staff member at the
Charles H. Hickey Jr. School sent two youths to the hospital, just as
state police were beginning efforts to bolster security at the troubled
juvenile detention center. (Click
here for more)
February 23, 2004 - Jail medical providers
face state probe (Palm Beach Post)
The Florida Attorney General's Office is investigating illegal Medicaid
billings for prison and jail inmate treatment and is targeting two
longtime medical contractors at jails in Palm Beach, St. Lucie and 18
other counties, according to their corporate parent. (Click
here for more)
February 23, 2004 - Inmates might go to
Youngtown??? (CTNow)
The next batch of inmates that Connecticut prison
officials send out of state is likely to end up in a private prison in
Ohio. (Click
here for more)
February 23, 2004 - EBR schools, ARAMARK begin worker transition
process (The Adovocate)
The East Baton Rouge Parish school system is holding a series of
informational meetings this week to explain to more than 400 custodians,
maintenance, groundskeeping and warehouse workers what will happen now
that their jobs are in the hands of ARAMARK Inc.
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here for more)
February 22, 2004 - MTC guards walk out, again (Townsville
Bulletin)
OFFICERS at a privately-run prison in Queensland
will walk off the job again over the next two days.
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February 22, 2004 - Auditor to investigate prison contracts (Boston.com)
State Auditor Elizabeth Ready is looking into how the state awards and
monitors contracts for prisoner care in response to six inmate deaths
and concerns about prisoners' mental and physical health.
(Click
here for more)
February 20, 2004 - Judge: Girls prison report must be
public (Palm Beach Post)
The Department of Juvenile Justice has no right to keep a grand jury
report on a girls prison from the public, a judge ruled Thursday. (Click
here for more)
February 20, 2004 - Man suspected of funneling drugs to prison (NewsOK)
State agents are looking for a man they suspect of funneling drugs into
a private prison in Cushing, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics said
Thursday. (Click
here for more)
February 19, 2004 - Beatings at CSC juvie facility (Baltimore
Sun)
A youth in state custody at the Charles H. Hickey School in Baltimore
County was assaulted last month by two staff members who held him in his
room and repeatedly punched him in the face, according to police
records. (Click
here for more)
February 19, 2004 - Detainees begin hunger strike (The
Australian)
A GROUP of 17 detainees at Perth's immigration
detention centre have started a hunger strike to protest about the
withdrawal of a work program. (Click
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February 19, 2004 - Jailhouse food blues (Lawyer Texas Parole)
It would be easy to dismiss inmates' complaints about jail food simply
as whining -- not worthy of serious attention because incarceration is
not meant to be a pleasant experience. (Click
here for more)
February 19, 2004 - Better clock watching at MTC prison? (Simcoe)
Only two recommendations were made last week by a jury after an inquest
ended in the death of an inmate at the super jail, and clocks are the
focus of both. (Click
here for more)
February 19, 2004 - Super jail guards reject MTC offer (Midland
Free Press)
Super jail correctional workers rejected the parent corporation's second
contract offer last Thursday, but the union says it’s willing to come
back to the bargaining table for a third round of negotiations.
(Click
here for more)
February 18, 2004 - Jail isolates 18 with staph infection (Palm
Beach Post)
An outbreak of highly contagious staph infection at the Palm Beach
County Jail -- which affected 54 prisoners at one time in November --
has caused jail officials to isolate inmates. (Click
here for more)
February 18, 2004 - County jail inmates
protest ban on contact visits (SP Times)
inmates at the Hernando County Jail threatened a work stoppage and others
refused to return breakfast trays for pickup on Tuesday morning until
jail officials take a harder look at its new policy, ending
"contact" visits. (Click
here for more)
February 18, 2004 - Judge to give final
award for inflated stock and interest (Kentucky.com)
About 777 former employees of U.S. Corrections Corp. could share in a
$9.9 million damage award, plus interest, if a federal judge accepts the
report of a court-appointed expert that was filed Friday.
(Click
here for more)
February 17, 2004 - Superjail correctional
officers reject second contract (NUPGE)
For the second time in three weeks, correctional officers at Canada’s
first privatized adult correctional facility have voted to reject an
offer from their American employer for a first contract.
(Click
here for more)
February 17, 2004 - Prison disturbances
involves 100 inmates (VVdailypress.com)
The California Department of Corrections reported an inmate disturbance
Sunday night involving up to 100 inmates at the Victor Valley Medium
Community Correctional Facility in Adelanto. (Click
here for more)
February 17, 2004 - Privatization pickle (The
Democrat)
Leon County Sheriff Larry Campbell isn't known for his patience. (Click
here for more)
February 17, 2004 - State to close troubled
juvie center (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The threat of legal action prompted state officials
to temporarily shut down the Augusta Youth Development Campus, a
long-term detention center for mentally troubled boys. (Click
here for more)
February 16, 2004 - The call that ended a
four-year nightmare (The Age)
Three days before Christmas, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone made a
call to the Villawood detention centre in Sydney that ended Faezah
Askari's four-year ordeal in detention. (Click
here for more)
February 15, 2004 - Sheriff demands care
provider shape up (The Democrat)
Time may be running out for Prison Health Services in Leon County.
(Click
here for more)
February 15, 2004 - Inmate's medical care raises questions (The
Democrat)
Records from Ruth Hubbs' stay in the Leon County Jail last year raise
serious questions about the cause of her death - and point to the
medical care she received as a possible factor. (Click
here for more)
February 14, 2004 - New plan in works for prison in trouble (Sun-Sentinel)
State and local juvenile justice officials huddled in Tallahassee on
Friday to come up with an emergency plan for Florida's only
maximum-security prison for girls, under the expectation it soon would
have to yank a $15 million contract from the company running the prison.
(Click
here for more)
February 13, 2004 - Porn charges lead to resignation (The
Oklahoman)
A deputy warden at a Lawton prison resigned Thursday, a day after being
arrested on child pornography charges. (Click
here for more)
February 13, 2004 - State set to cancel
contract with girls' prison operator (Palm Beach Post)
Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice has notified the operator of
the Florida Institute for Girls that its $5.2 million annual contract
will end in 10 days unless "all failures" are corrected.
(Click here for
more)
February 13, 2004 - Two prison closings planned (Mercury
News)
Even before setting up a commission to study prison closings, Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is planning to shut down two
privately run facilities supporters say are among the most
cost-effective in the state. (Click
here for more)
February 12, 2004 - Inmate's death still
mysterious (The Democrat)
The criminal investigation into an inmate's
death at the Leon County Jail last year has been closed.
(Click
here for more)
February 12, 2004 - Prison worker free on
bail (The Oklahoman)
A prison administrator from Piedmont is free on bail after turning
himself in to law enforcement Wednesday.
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here for more)
February 12, 2004 - Inmate's health issues
dominate first day of inquest (Simcoe)
The medical problems of an inmate, who died while incarcerated at the
super jail last year, were the main focus during the first day of an
inquest into his death. (Click
here for more)
February 10, 2004 - Don't make prison director political
pawn (Tucson Citizen)
If legislative leaders are looking for a scapegoat in
the wake of the nation's longest prison hostage siege, any mirror would be a
logical starting point. (Click
here for more)
February 9, 2004 - Bill for unused beds hard to swallow
(Al.com)
A $500,000 tab for unused slots in a private out-of-state prison is a
bitter pill for taxpayers of Alabama to swallow. (Click
here for more)
February 9, 2004 - MTC guards go on strike
(Townsvillebulletin.news.com)
INMATES at Borallon Correctional Centre near
Ipswich will be placed in lockdown mode tomorrow and Tuesday as prison
officers strike in support of increased wages and benefits. (Click
here for more)
February 9, 2004 - Premier guard fired
(Sundaymail.com)
A JAIL guard who groped a female colleague after pinning her to the
floor has been suspended.
(Click
here for more)
February 9, 2004 - Security operators face
tight new laws (State Political Reporter)
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon will be given
responsibility for regulating the state's private security industry
under proposed tough new laws. (Click
here for more)
February 5, 2004 - Subpoenas in jail food
fight (AP)
The McLennan County Commissioners Court and district attorney were
subpoenaed to appear before a Dallas County grand jury investigating the
owner of jail food service company and his relationship with officials
in several Texas counties, a newspaper reported. (Click
here for more)
February 5, 2004 - Gov't hopeful about MTC
guard union (Simcoe)
Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop hopes the company that runs the Central
North Correctional Centre in Penetanguishene can come to a fair contract
settlement with its correctional officers. (Click
here for more)
February 4, 2004 - Aramark under fire for
high costs (USA Vanguard)
A number of concerns have been fielded regarding the price of
school-sponsored catering services on campus and administrators are
working to find acceptable mediums to settle the contention.
(Click
here for more)
February 4, 2004 - DNA: CCA guard father of
inmate (Reno Gazette-Journal)
An investigation and DNA testing have identified former prison guard
Randy Easter as the father of a baby boy born to Nevada prison inmate
Korinda Martin on Jan. 12, a state Department of Prisons official said
Tuesday. (Click
here for more)
February 3, 2004 - Eight inmates refusing
food at Florida State Prison (AP)
Eight inmates on the disciplinary wing at Florida State Prison,
including two charged in the June beating death of a correctional
officer, are on a hunger strike over what they claim are basic human
needs for recreation, decent food, visitation and access to canteen
items. (Click
here for more)
February 3, 2004 - Local rep wants it state
run (The Independent)
A nationwide prison management company is interested in operating the
new Elliott County state prison, if Kentucky leaders opt for privatizing
the 895-bed facility. (Click
here for more)
February 3, 2004 - Infamous CCA prison to reopen in March
(Tribune-Chronicle)
At least 90 employees will be on hand next month to reopen the private
prison on the city's East Side.
(Click
here for more)
February 3, 2004 - Debate over privatizing prison
(Courier-Journal)
Members of a House budget subcommittee raised objections yesterday to
plans by the Fletcher administration to contract for private management
of a new $93.million state prison in Elliott County.
(Click
here for more)
February 1, 2004 - Aramark skimping on food? Never! (WHPTV.com)
Officials are looking into whether a food
service company is cutting back on the amount of food served to
prisoners. (Click
here for more)
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