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February 27, 2006 - Con released by mistake The Sun THE private jail holding serial killer Rose West freed a prisoner by mistake, it was revealed yesterday. (Click here for more) February 26, 2006 - Inmate went days without medical help St Petersburg Times John T. Wells was only 43 years old when he was booked into the Hernando County Jail for the last time. He died soon after from a rupture in his brain. (Click here for more) February 25, 2006 - Judge: No injunction in contract dispute News Herald Circuit Judge Glenn Hess cleared the way Friday for the county to sign a contract with Corrections Corporation of America for the construction and maintenance of a new jail. Hess denied a request from Emerald Correctional Management for an emergency injunction to prevent the county from sealing the deal. (Click here for more) February 24, 2006 - Eloy Detention Center to remain open KOLD Eloy, Arizona, a city that few Arizonans get to know, depends on a service that most try to avoid: prisons. (Click here for more) February 24, 2006 - Private prisons: Bill would let state flirt with disreputable industry Salt Lake Tribune All SB175 does is leave the door unlocked. But, as any prison guard can tell you, sometimes one carelessly unlocked door is all it takes to separate an orderly prison from mayhem. (Click here for more) February 23, 2006 - Monitoring must be free of conflicts Montgomery Advertiser The fact that incoming prison commissioner Richard Allen, who takes over next week, has no previous experience in corrections has been widely noted. (Click here for more) February 22, 2006 - Commission asks why state won't house prisoners in Pickens jail Pickens Herald The Pickens County Commission in a press briefing last Tuesday after their regular meeting questioned the state’s motives in housing several hundred prisoners in Louisiana when they could easily house them at the Pickens County Jail at a cheaper rate. (Click here for more) February 22, 2006 - Judge gives strip-search defendant probation Courier-Journal The assistant manager who led the April 2004 strip-search of a teenager at a Bullitt County McDonald's received probation yesterday after the victim said she thought the manager was duped and was herself a victim. (Click here for more) February 20, 2006 - Learn from past mistakes The Spectrum Utah has one of the country's lowest incarceration rates, according to federal data, but is climbing from a booming population growth spurt that has increased the incarcerated population by 200 to 300 inmates each year. (Click here for more) February 19, 2006 - Unsavory jails chow, service get action Herald News Passaic County Jail inmate prayers -- and stomach rumblings -- have been heard. (Click here for more) February 19, 2006 - Doing time a long way from home Courier-Journal It harkens back to centuries past, when felons were banished to penal colonies on distant continents. One hundred and nineteen Hawaiians -- all women -- are locked behind razor-wire fences at an isolated private prison in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, 4,500 miles from their homes and families. (Click here for more) February 18, 2006 - Prison monitor stirs ethics debate Birmingham News A nurse hired by the state prison system last month to monitor its medical contract had until then worked for the company he was hired to keep tabs on. (Click here for more) February 18, 2006 - Drug company: South Florida prisons may be harming inmates Herald Tribune A Florida company squeezed out of a lucrative contract to provide prescription drugs to South Florida prisons says its replacement may harm inmates by placing profits over proper prescriptions. (Click here for more) February 18, 2006 - Lawsuit: Prison officials lacked suicide training News Journal Correction Commissioner Stanley W. Taylor Jr.'s failure to properly train his staff to recognize suicidal inmates and properly care for them allowed Christopher Barkes to hang himself in his prison cell in November 2004, a federal lawsuit contends. (Click here for more) February 17, 2006 - Securicor employees remanded over $1M bank deposit theft Stabroek News Three Securicor employees accused of stealing over $1M after being told to deposit the money at Scotia Bank, yesterday appeared in the George-town Magistrate's Court. (Click here for more) February 17, 2006 - Bailey's girlfriend pleads guilty News Herald Youth, stupidity and blind love were not enough to keep accused cop killer Robert Bailey’s girlfriend from a prison sentence on Thursday. (Click here for more) February 16, 2006 - Prison contract with ICE close to being signed Eloy Enterprise Pay cut for many still a possibility .The Eloy City Council didn't let time drag on when it came to stopping job loss at the prison. (Click here for more) February 16, 2006 - DOC report to be unlocked? Delaware State News The legislature’s budget-writing committee on Thursday urged the head of the state Department of Correction to release a 2005 report evaluating prisoner medical care. (Click here for more) February 16, 2006 - Cases of abuse raise questions Montgomery Advertiser How willing would you be to do business with a company with a record of legal problems, even if it was the low bidder? (Click here for more) February 16, 2006 - Security probe over court escapes BBC A councillor has called for an urgent review of security after two prisoners escaped from Derby Crown Court in the space of a week. (Click here for more) February 16, 2006 Tough on crime, or on taxpayers Ledger-Enquirer Last week, Alabama's prison commissioner went over the wall. (Click here for more) February 16, 2006 - Suit claims jailers ignored inmate sex Houston Chronicle A civil rights lawsuit announced Wednesday blames the private corrections system for the 2004 suicide of a South Texas woman found hanging in her cell after reporting that a male inmate raped her. (Click here for more) February 16, 2006 - Carefully weigh private prisons Deseret Morning News Government should seek out efficiencies whenever possible. But it is not sufficient for some functions of government to simply be cost-efficient. (Click here for more) February 16, 2006 Grieving Family Files Suit Against County and Private Jail After Wife and Mother is Raped, Commits Suicide Press Release The Texas Civil Rights Project filed suit today on behalf of the family of Mrs. Letisha Tapia. Mrs. Tapia was found hanging in the Val Verde County Jail on July 23, 2004 after she had been raped by a male inmate. (Click here for more) February 15, 2006 - Van carrying inmates crashes on Homestake Pass KXLF A private inmate transport van hit black ice and crashed on Homestake Pass near Butte last night. (Click here for more) February 15, 2006 - Jail 'suits' reach out to everybody but the news media Hernando Today The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) impressed county commissioners Tuesday with their plans to make changes at the county-owned jail operated by CCA. (Click here for more) February 15, 2006 - Man claims 1995 slaying in N.M. Herald Tribune A man who police say escaped a Houston halfway house and killed three men in Fort Worth claims to have killed a man in Albuquerque in 1995, New Mexico authorities said. (Click here for more) February 15, 2006 - State drops supplier of drugs at prisons Herald Tribune A controversial pharmaceutical company is losing its job of supplying prescription drugs to Department of Corrections inmates in South Florida. (Click here for more) February 15, 2006 - 5 Sierra Blanca escapees in custody Albuquerque Journal Five teenage boys who walked away from a juvenile jail Monday were taken into custody Tuesday morning, but questions remain about why the facility near Ruidoso has had two breakouts in two months. (Click here for more) February 15, 2006 - County jail's warden replaced St Petersburg Times A changing of the guard took place Tuesday at the top level of the Hernando County Jail. (Click here for more) February 14, 2006 - Jail gets second chance Hernando Today The private firm hired by the county to operate its jail got a reprieve yesterday and was allowed to keep its job despite bungles that included three recent inmate suicides, an escape and the mistaken release of another inmate. (Click here for more) February 14, 2006 - Ex-prison official admits thefts St Petersburg Times A former Florida prison official has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $225,000 in state money nearly three years after he used the cash to help buy houses for him and his girlfriend. (Click here for more) February 13, 2006 - AP: At least 7 firms winning no-bid contracts gave Doyle money AP Employees of at least seven companies donated to Gov. Jim Doyle's re-election campaign around the same time the state picked their firms for no-bid contracts totaling more than $36.1 million, according to an Associated Press review. (Click here for more) February 12, 2006 - Former county jail doctor still not disciplined Palm Beach Post A former jailhouse doctor who ignored a critical lab report on an inmate who later died still practices medicine despite a year-old state recommendation to discipline him for gross malpractice. (Click here for more) February 11, 2006 - Ex-prison official strikes plea deal Tallahassee Democrat The former director of Florida's defunct prison-privatization board has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges, his attorney said Friday. (Click here for more) February 11, 2006 - Inmate escapes from jail St Petersburg Times About 2 a.m. Friday, Matthew S. Draper escaped from the Hernando County Jail. It wasn't difficult. (Click here for more) February 10, 2006 - Police: Victim lured by men she knew in 1979 slaying The Chronicle Security guards living in a Holland motel told the friendly desk clerk, 23-year-old Janet Chandler of Muskegon, they were taking her to a surprise party. (Click here for more) February 10, 2006 - Cornell settles class action lawsuit Yahoo Cornell Companies, Inc. announced today the settlement of a securities class action lawsuit. (Click here for more) February 10, 2006 - Ex-private prison guard convicted of beating inmate The Advocate A former guard at a private prison in Evangeline Parish has been convicted on federal charges of beating an inmate and then asking other guards to cover up the incident. (Click here for more) February 8, 2006 - Officer accused of stealing from inmates St Petersburg Times Add another one to the list of problems at Hernando County Jail. A corrections officer was arrested Tuesday and accused of stealing a total of $750 from two inmates while booking them into the facility. (Click here for more) February 7, 2006 - Colorado may close juvenile boot camp The Victoria Advocate Colorado County officials are expected to decide today if the county will close the Eagle Lake Juvenile Detention Facility Boot Camp. (Click here for more) February 7, 2006 - Audit finds jail staff inexperienced Hernando Today The last known quality assurance audit of the Hernando County Jail outlines problems at the facility, including a high turnover rate, and points out that more than half of the staff has less than one year’s experience. (Click here for more) February 7, 2006 - Jail violation fines likely to increase Hernando Today The financial ax the county dangles over the company hired to operate its jail will likely get sharper. (Click here for more) February 6, 2006 - Executive Residence gets $4.3 million in donations Tennessean Big businesses in Tennessee have made the largest donations to help restore the state's Executive Residence over the past three years. (Click here for more) February 5, 2006 - Jail worker charged with pot possession NorthJersey.com A food service employee at the Passaic County Jail was arrested Saturday and charged with smuggling marijuana to inmates. (Click here for more) February 5, 2006 - Jail troubles tangled in purse strings St Petersburg Times Reynaldo Luciano left Wal-Mart last summer to become a corrections officer at the Hernando County Jail. (Click here for more) February 5, 2006 - 5 are indicted on drug complaints The Oklahoman An inmate, his wife and stepfather and two others have been indicted for their alleged roles in a drug-smuggling ring at the Lawton Correctional Facility. (Click here for more) February 4, 2006 - CCA: No stranger to criticism, controversy Hernando Today Corrections Corporation of America, which has a $10 million contract with the county to run the Hernando County Jail, has come under fire recently after three inmate suicides and other problems called CCA's performance into question. (Click here for more) February 4, 2006 - Gresham Burger King is sued in disrobing Oregonian A former fast-food worker is suing the owners of a Gresham Burger King franchise because she claims her supervisor ordered her to undress after accusing her of theft two years ago. (Click here for more) February 3, 2006 - Former jail manager raises concerns The Mirror A former manager at the Central North Correctional Centre says he has major concerns about the well-being of employees and inmates at the jail. (Click here for more) February 3, 2006 - Miami newspaper rips Arcadia Center Sun Herald Chronic problems with the way Florida deals with its sexually violent predators by detaining them in a prison-like institution called the Florida Civil Commitment Center have been reported to state officials, lawmakers and the governor for years. (Click here for more) February 3, 2006 - VT Foundation disregards social concerns Collegiate Times For the Virginia Tech Foundation, Inc., social responsibility is not on the radar when investing its endowment. (Click here for more) February 3, 2006 - Man who was wrongly jailed gets settlement Philadelphia Inquirer A Colwyn man who was imprisoned for 44 days last year after Delaware County jail officials refused to check his repeated, and true, claim that they had the wrong person has netted a cash settlement, court records show. (Click here for more) February 2, 2006 - Feds advised city of Eloy would support prison business Z-Wire The attempt to stem job loss at the Eloy Detention Center has already started. (Click here for more) February 2, 2006 - Two to swear to campaigning tradition Journal-Sentinel Two former legislative leaders - one of whom is now a state Supreme Court justice - are prepared to testify that campaigning on state time was widespread and stretched back until at least the late 1970s, according to summaries of their testimony filed Thursday in state Rep. Scott Jensen's corruption case. (Click here for more) February 2, 2006 - Inmate had plenty of time to hang himself St Petersburg Times For the second time in a month, guards at the Hernando County Jail failed to check on an inmate for almost two hours before he hanged himself. (Click here for more) February 2, 2006 - Man pleads guilty in McDonald's sex abuse hoax Courier-Journal The Bullitt County man who claimed he thought he was following a police officer’s orders when he sexually humiliated a teenaged McDonald’s worker in April 2004 pleaded guilty this morning to sexual abuse, sexual misconduct and unlawful imprisonment. (Click here for more) February 1, 2006 - Defunct juvenile jail draws debate Hood County News The now abandoned county juvenile detention center drew attention from two county judge candidates at the political forum Monday night for candidates in the March 7 Republican primary. (Click here for more) February 1, 2006 - Jail inmate planned suicide Hernando Today He methodically planned his suicide and carried out that plan Friday, on the Vietnamese New Year, a special day in his culture. (Click here for more) February 1, 2006 - Don't renew jail contract, petition reads The Mirror A petition will soon be delivered to Queen's Park asking that Premier Dalton McGuinty publicly promise to not renew the Management and Training Corporation (MTC) contract at the Central North Correctional Centre (CNCC) in Penetanguishene. (Click here for more) February 1, 2006 - Truth is missing in Cashman case Burlington Free Press Let's say, for discussion's sake, that Judge Edward Cashman deserves the outrage that greeted his initial sentence of a man who sexually abused a little girl. (Click here for more) February 1, 2006 - 'Barbaric' trips endured by pregnant prisoners The Guardian Heavily pregnant prisoners are being forced to travel hundreds of miles in claustrophobic prison vans known to inmates as "sweatboxes", the Guardian has learned. (Click here for more) February 1, 2006 - Home Office
hauled over coals for hole in accounts The Guardian The Home
Office yesterday became the first Whitehall department in living memory
to present accounts to parliament that were delivered so late and so
flawed that the National Audit Office is unable to tell MPs whether they
are correct.
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