July 29, 2005 - POA urges return of struggling jail to public sector Morning Star The Prison Officers Association called for the return of Rye Hill jail to public control yesterday, after the Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers found that staff at the private prison are being bullied by inmates. (Click here for more)
July 29, 2005 - Australia: Global hit with $500,000 fine ABC Detention centre operator to pay for maltreatment. (Click here for more)
July 28, 2005 - Independent probe needed in prison riot Honolulu Advertiser They're out of sight, but must not be out of mind. Hawai'i's overflow inmate population, housed at private prisons on the Mainland, remain our responsibility. (Click here for more)
July 28, 2005 - Disciplinary decisions delayed at youth center Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Disciplinary action expected against some employees at Alexander Youth Services Center for the way they handled 17-year-old LaKeisha Brown has been delayed, a spokesman for a private company that runs the youth lockup facility for the state said Wednesday. (Click here for more)
July 28, 2005 - UK: Immediate action needed on Global prison Politics Anne Owers said the situation at Rye Hill prison near Rugby had reached a point that staff, many of whom were "inexperienced and poorly supported", were being bullied by inmates. (Click here for more)
July 28, 2005 - UK: Inmates rule Global prison The
Guardian A private prison was yesterday described as
"unsafe", with prisoners bullying staff, and drugs, knives and
alcohol freely available.
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July 28, 2005 - Florida: Another killer column SP Times I would be right curious to know how many crooks are doing time in Florida's prisons for cases that involve almost $13-million of somebody else's money. (Click here for more)
July 27, 2005 - Arkansas: Team advises suspensions for Cornell
nurses Arkansas Democrat
Senior management
at Alexander Youth Services Center should be "held
accountable" for failing to ensure 17-year-old LaKeisha Brown
received the proper care before she died, and nurses there should be
suspended for inadequately addressing her needs, a private company that
runs the facility for the state has decided. (Click
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July 27, 2005 - New Mexico: County saving $$$ after firing Cornell
News Bulletin The county administration's efforts to improve
its financial status are paying off. County Manager Mike Trujillo
told the Valencia County Commission, during a special meeting Friday
that it will begin the 2005-06 budget with a million dollars more than
his staff had expected while designing the preliminary budget.
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July 27, 2005 - Hawaii: Isle inmates riot at CCA MS facility Honolulu
Advertiser State prison officials said yesterday they are concerned
about a security breach at a Mississippi prison that led to a
disturbance among Hawai'i inmates and landed two men in the hospital
with broken jaws.
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July 27, 2005 - Hawaii: Inmates to be pulled from Brush. Honolulu Advertiser Hawai'i plans to move 80 women inmates out of a troubled private prison in Colorado by the end of September but is unsure where they will go, prison officials said. (Click here for more)
July 27, 2005 - Florida: Privatization "scandalization"?
Tallahassee Democrat On
Florida's fiscal radar, the $12.7 million that a state audit found was
overpaid to two private prison companies is barely a blip. Against
Florida's $64.7 billion budget, 0.02 percent seems like chump change.
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July 27, 2005 - Florida: Criminal charges coming soon? SP Times TALLAHASSEE - A harsh new state audit discloses that Florida overpaid nearly $13-million to two private prison vendors in the past eight years. (Click here for more)
July 27, 2005 - Florida: End private prison contracts!!! SP
Times For more than a decade, the
Florida Legislature has fronted for the private prison industry with a
credulous faith that it was saving money.
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July 26, 2005 - California: Maranatha lobbyist says he wasn't a
lobbyist? The Press-Enterprise
Former Assemblyman Brett Granlund said Monday he played no role in
negotiating San Bernardino County's $31 million purchase of a private
prison in Adelanto. (Click
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July 25, 2005 - Arkansas: Justice from Cornell? Arkansas
Democrat Now that
we know that workers at Alexander Youth Services Center broke the rules,
what are we going to do about it?
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July 26, 2005 - Florida: Audit hammers for-profits. Told you so. Tallahassee Democrat Two companies running Florida prisons for profit were allowed to overbill the state nearly $13 million and even rebated some money to cover salaries and expenses for the agency policing their contracts, according to a new state audit. (Click here for more)
July 25, 2005 - California: Civigenics disqualified - GEO in Bakersfield SACRAMENTO -- The fate of the now-closed Mesa Verde prison facility on Union Avenue in Bakersfield -- mired in a bureaucratic limbo for the last three years -- has taken another strange turn. (Click here for more)
July 25, 2005 - Australia: Detainees riot at Global center Herald Sun DETAINEES at the Baxter detention centre rioted on Friday night, causing up to $70,000 worth of damage to the complex. The riot was sparked by complaints of bad food, according to police. (Click here for more)
July 24, 2005 - Pennsylvania: GEO nurses to unionize Delco Times Seventeen health-care professionals at the Delaware County prison have signed cards indicating they want to unionize, a union official said Saturday. (Click here for more)
July 24, 2004 - Florida: Crants cries foul? SP Times TALLAHASSEE - The abduction and murder of Jessica Lunsford of Homosassa thrust Florida into the national forefront in the use of satellite technology to track sex offenders. (Click here for more)
July 24, 2005 - Minnesota: CCA's real costs: $70 per day Twin
Cities Better late than never for Faribault and Stillwater projects
included in the bonding bill that finally passed last session.
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July 23, 2005 - Oklahoma: CCA payments Tulsa World Expenses include meals, event tickets, flowers, pricey pens, beer and a spa visit. (Click here for more)
July 22, 2005 - Massachusetts: PHS suit gets sticky Boston
Globe New court documents contradict statements from Suffolk County
Sheriff Andrea Cabral, who has denied firing a jail employee for
cooperating with an FBI investigation into abuse of inmates at the
Suffolk County jail.
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July 22, 2005 - Florida: CCA back to building on spec, sort of Miami Southwest Ranches has agreed to allow construction of a private 1,500-bed prison or detention center on the western edge of town in exchange for up to $1.5 million per year for Town Hall. (Click here for more)
July 21, 2005 - Arkansas: Cornell nurses failed youth Arkansas Democrat The state Board of Nursing has found that the way six nurses at the state's largest juvenile lockup handled 17-year-old LaKeisha Brown as she fell ill and died violated a state nursing law and several regulations, according to a report released Wednesday afternoon. (Click here for more)
July 21, 2005 - New Mexico: Fewer inmates for CCA? Mountain
View Telegraph Torrance
County could soon have fewer lawbreakers behind bars in Estancia's
Corrections Corporation of America facility.
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July 21, 2005 - California: More on Maranatha prison corruption Bakersfield A Bakersfield businessman's sale of a privately operated prison has become mired in a widening investigation of possible land-sale irregularities in San Bernardino County. (Click here for more)
July 21, 2005 - Washington: More on CCA influence peddling The News Tribune It almost sounds like a bad joke. Unfortunately, it’s at the expense of average Washingtonians. (Click here for more)
July 21, 2005 - Scotland: Premier guard fumed over smoking Daily
Record A PRISON officer claims he was forced to quit his job because
he was constantly subjected to passive smoking.
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July 21, 2005 - Australia: Global detention led to trauma? Smh Ian Hwang and his sister, Janie, arrive at Stanmore Public School. (Click here for more)
July 21, 2005 - Jamaica: Two youth who escaped troubled center found Bakersfield Two U.S. teenagers who fled a treatment center for troubled youths in southwestern Jamaica as Hurricane Emily sideswiped the island have been found, the center's director said Wednesday. (Click here for more)
July 20, 2005 - Florida: CCA hostage takers face trial News
Herald Four men accused of taking hostages in a Bay County Jail
standoff last year have been scheduled for trial the last week of
August.
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July 19, 2005 - California: Assemblyman under investigation over
Maranatha prison deal
The Press-Enterprise San Bernardino County's investigation
into land deals will expand to examine its $31 million purchase of a
private prison in Adelanto, Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Postmus
said Tuesday.
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July 19, 2005 - Pennsylvania: PHS costs escalating Red Nova Erie County must soon come up with another $311,877 to pay 2004 medical expenses at the Erie County Prison. (Click here for more)
July 19, 2005 - New Zealand: GEO pays $50,000 fine for escape Stuff An inmate in Auckland's former private prison who stowed away in a shipping container to depart New Zealand should be sent back here to face rape charges, says a Fiji court. (Click here for more)
July 19, 2005 - Australia: Assault issues at GEO detention center The Age The Immigration Department is under fire again for failing to protect a woman who was sexually abused in front of her daughter in a detention centre. (Click here for more)
July 19, 2005 - New Mexico: GEO proposal debated ABQ Journal Some legislators on Monday said a proposed prison in Clayton would help that town's economy, while others advocated different ways to add prison space in New Mexico. (Click here for more)
July 18, 2005 - Police: Inmate, jail nurse had sex News Herald A married jail nurse was arrested late Saturday and accused of having sex with a female inmate on an examining table in the Bay County Jail annex, leading to a felony count that was vehemently denied Sunday by the man's wife. (Click here for more)
July 18, 2005 - Colorado: Inmates sue over Aramark food The Gazette Spoiled milk, rotten fruit and watered-down soup that tastes like dishwater. (Click here for more)
July 18, 2005 - New York: Inmate wins $633,000 in PHS suit Times Union A federal court jury has awarded $782,988 to a former jail inmate who sued Prison Health Services and Schenectady and Schoharie counties for failing to properly treat a heart attack that left him disabled. (Click here for more)
July 17, 2005 - Washington: CCA buying influence? The News Tribune State lawmakers are well on their way to raising $1.6 million for an upcoming national conference in Seattle, thanks to an exemption they inserted into state ethics law. (Click here for more)
July 16, 2005 - Florida: CCA win$ the day! Sun Sentinel Southwest Ranches · Officials approved plans for a 1,515-bed, medium-security prison that will bring the town more than a million dollars a year when it opens in 2008. (Click here for more)
July 16, 2005 - Alabama: More trouble for PHS AP A
court-appointed monitor warns that erratic treatment of HIV-positive
inmates in an Alabama prison could develop into treatment-resistant
AIDS.
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July 16, 2005 - Prisoner sues state over care Clarion
Ledger A state prisoner suffering from life-threatening illnesses
has been denied medical treatment for more than a month, a lawsuit
claims.
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July 15, 2005 - Arizona: Told you so! Tucson Citizen Arizona legislators have made their philosophical point. And it is costing you $11,000 a day. It was in 2003, when Arizona prisons were badly crowded, that the Legislature decided to act. (Click here for more)
July 15, 2005 - OPSEU bargaining team recommend rejection of superjail offer Canada News Wire Bargaining representatives for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 369 at the Penetanguishene private superjail have recommended that their members vote to reject the final offer tabled by the employer today (Click here for more)
July 15, 2005 - Cornell sued over medical care (or lack there of) Tribune-Review
A former
inmate at the Westmoreland County Prison claims in a federal lawsuit
that he needs a liver transplant because of substandard medical care he
received while an inmate there. (Click
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July 15, 2005 - Boca based prison operator GEO group to buy cross
state rival Palm Beach Post The
Geo Group is buying one of its rivals, Sarasota-based prison management
firm Correctional Services Corp., for $62 million in cash, Geo said
Thursday. (Click
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July 14, 2005 - Cornell out of deal Anchorage Daily News A corporate shake-up appears to have killed controversial plans to put a boys' psychiatric treatment center in the MacKay Building annex on downtown's eastern flanks. (Click here for more)
July 14, 2005 - New warden named for jail St Petersburg Times Corrections Corporation of America says the appointee is only a transitional figure, but one county official takes issue with that description. (Click here for more)
July 14, 2005 - CCA enters into new contract with Kentucky Business
Wire announced
today that it has entered into a new agreement with the state of
Kentucky to house some of that state's female inmates at the Company's
owned and operated Otter Creek Correctional Center in Wheelwright,
Kentucky. CCA presently manages nearly 1,200 male inmates for Kentucky
at two CCA facilities located in Kentucky.
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July 14, 2005 - Sarasota prison management company being bought by Boca Raton's GEO group News Coast Correctional Services Corp., the Sarasota-based prison management company, is being bought by Boca Raton’s GEO Group Inc. for $6 per share. (Click here for more)
July 14, 2005 - PM says sorry to Rau, Alvarez Daily Telegraph THE federal government has apologised to Cornelia Rau and Vivian Alvarez for their treatment at the hands of the immigration department. (Click here for more)
July 14, 2005 - 'No hospital beds' for detainees The Age The Immigration Department has stalled for weeks over transferring from Baxter to a psychiatric institution three severely depressed men who a mental health expert says need immediate hospital care. (Click here for more)
July 13, 2005 - Two inmates found hanged at jail BBC An
inquiry has been launched after two men were found hanged in their cells
at a prison in Liverpool. (Click
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July 13, 2005 - Jail changes hands New York Daily From noncriminal visa violators to federal lawbreakers: a detention facility in Springfield Gardens that used to hold illegal immigrants is changing hands (Click here for more)
July 13, 2005 - Public ACRP opportunity for corrections to deliver scoop.co.nz The return today of New Zealand's only privately run prison to public sector management is an opportunity for the Corrections Department (Click here for more)
July 13, 2005 - Workers paid for private prison profits Public Service Association The Public Service Association (PSA) is welcoming the return of the Auckland Central Remand Prison to the public prisons service. (Click here for more)
July 13, 2005 - Privately-run prisons not an option New Zealand Herald Opposition parties have said that ending private participation in the prison system is a triumph of ideology over commonsense (Click here for more)
July 13, 2005 - Judge wont dismiss charges against associate of Delay The Associated Press A state district judge declined Tuesday to dismiss charges of accepting illegal political contributions against an associate of U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. (Click here for more)
July 13, 2005 - Inmates facing trial in riot Newsok Two of seven inmates charged in connection with a riot at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing will stand trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. (Click here for more)
July 12, 2005 - Inmate slain in halfway house Philadelphia Daily News An inmate at a halfway house in Juniata Park was found shot to death in his room yesterday morning, police said. (Click here for more)
July 12, 2005 - Trouble behind MTC's fence? The Press-Enterprise Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone on Tuesday challenged the sheriff to come up with a better plan than his own for relieving the county's overcrowded jails. (Click here for more)
July 12, 2005 - Inmate looses rape suit against CCA Las Vegas Sun A federal judge on Monday dismissed a suit against the Corrections Corporation of America brought by a female inmate who had sex with a former prison guard, according to attorneys on both sides of the case. (Click here for more)
July 12, 2005 - Remand Prison returns to state control Scoop.co.nz The GEO Group, holders of the private management contract for the Auckland Central Remand Prison, said today that although they were extremely disappointed that the contract had come to a close (Click here for more)
July 12, 2005 - Floyd County prison contract will go to CCA Kentucky Herald State prison officials said they expect to sign a deal Wednesday that will pay Corrections Corp. of America to house 400 female inmates in Floyd County. (Click here for more)
July 12, 2005 - GEO loss could hurt bottom line Biz Journals In a development the company said could hurt it financially, Geo Group said it may lose a contract in Michigan. (Click here for more)
July 12, 2005 - All 3 escapees from Beaumont jail captured AP BEAUMONT — Authorities have now captured all three federal prisoners who escaped from a private jail in downtown Beaumont, police said. (Click here for more)
July 11, 2005 - Prisoners moved in recent contract with county panews.com Less than two weeks after Jefferson County contracted with a private company to manage prisoners, a manhunt was under way for escaped inmates. (Click here for more)
July 9, 2005 - The Hilton is cheaper option for detainees smh.com.au GSL's parent has merged twice in the past five years. The second time was a year ago, with a British-based multinational called Securicor to create "one of the largest security companies in the world, (Click here for more)
July 9, 2005 - Lawmakers question Clayton Prison Plan ABQ
Journal The city of Clayton's proposal to build a privately run
prison with room for 600 medium-security inmates is running into legal
questions from state lawmakers. (Click
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July 8, 2005 - Cornell damage control Arkansas Democrat-Gazette A private company that runs the Alexander Youth Services Center for the state released details Thursday about how it will address problems found after the April death of 17-year-old inmate LaKeisha Brown, but the company has yet to decide whether any employees will be disciplined for how they treated her. (Click here for more)
July 8, 2005 - Canada:MTC guard stabbed Simcoe.com OPP
charged an inmate at the Central North Correctional Centre in
Penetanguishene after an attack in a staircase. Police said, on Monday,
June 27, a 22-year-old correctional officer was grabbed by an inmate,
and stabbed in the neck with a sharpened object. (Click
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July 8, 2005 - Company wins bid to build Florence prison The
Arizona Republic The state Department of Corrections will contract
with Correctional Services Corp. to build a 1,000-bed private prison
facility for sex offenders in Florence. (Click
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July 8, 2005 - State wastes lots of cash, ballot measure foes say Rocky
Mountain News Waste
is in the eye of the beholder. (Click
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July 7, 2005 - Form 8-K for GEO Group INC. Yahoo On
June 30, 2005, The GEO Group, Inc. ("GEO") received written
notice from the State of Michigan Department of Management and Budget
that the State of Michigan intends to cancel GEO's management contract
to operate the 480-bed Michigan Youth Correctional Facility in Baldwin,
Michigan (the "Michigan Facility"), effective September 30,
2005.
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July 7, 2005 - Contract was canceled to avert health-care strike Pantagraph
A
Pennsylvania-based company may sue the Illinois Department of
Corrections after the agency abruptly canceled its contract to avert a
labor strike. (Click
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July 7, 2005 - Judge lashes out as Zim woman deported in error New
Zimbabwe A ZIMBABWEAN woman could be flown back to Britain after she
was erroneously deported just hours after a judge halted all
deportations to Zimbabwe. (Click
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July 7, 2005 - 'Tent City Jail' being considered Mountain
View Telegraph Torrance
County could build a lockup, or inmates could find themselves housed in
tents near Estancia. (Click
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July 5, 2005 - State ends prison-health pact SJ-R The
state has dropped its contract with Wexford Health Sources Inc. to
provide health services at 23 state prisons on the eve of a scheduled
strike by its employees. (Click
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July 4, 2005 - Governor's mansion to undergo face lift with private funds The Tennessean From a distance, the home in tree-lined Oak Hill seems powerful and proud. But up close, the mansion built in 1929 is showing its age (Click here for more)
July 3, 2005 - Bad news for parent causes stock drop The Tennessean America Service Group couldn't seem to catch a break in the second quarter.(Click here for more)
July 1, 2005 - Juvenile facility in Md. to close Washington
Post Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said Thursday that the
state would close the Charles H.
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July 1, 2005 - GOP wants to fatten up on Alaska cash Miner News In the closing days of the regular legislative session, Republican Sen. Gene Therriault of North Pole amended an elections bill to allow big corporate money into Alaska politics. (Click here for more)
July 1, 2005 - Review: Jail needs $259,000 in repairs Tulsa World More than $250,000 worth of repairs need to be made to the Tulsa Jail's security system, according to a review that found more than 270 broken intercoms and other equipment damaged or missing. (Click here for more)
July 1, 2005 - Sheriff gets keys to the jail Tulsa World Tulsa
County Sheriff Stanley Glanz takes control of the Tulsa Jail, years
after he worked to have it built.
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July 1, 2005 - Tulsa County's sheriff regains control of jail News OK It probably didn't take Tulsa County jail inmates long to know a new -- but familiar -- sheriff was in town. (Click here for more)
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