June 30, 2005 - Some state jobs going private Evansville Courier & Press Indiana prison officials are drawing up the details on plans to contract out operation of a state prison in New Castle, Ind. (Click here for more)
June 30, 2005 - Asylum angst overtakes Cool Britannia The Statesman Britain’s asylum policy came under renewed scrutiny on Monday as dozens of Zimbabweans staged a hunger strike in protest (Click here for more)
June 30, 2005 - Lockdown lifted at private prison Oklahoman Lockdown at the Davis Correctional Facility was lifted Tuesday, 10 days after concerns about racial tension among inmates triggered heightened security at the private prison. (Click here for more)
June 30, 2005 - Medical contractor drops aid to state Tampa Tribune A medical provider dropped services to four juvenile justice centers this week, just days before the state was scheduled to terminate its contract. (Click here for more)
June 29, 2005 - Inmate's lawyers seek more money in death-penalty case The Santa Fe New Mexican Lawyers for three prison inmates facing the death penalty in the 1999 slaying of a New Mexico correctional officer say the state hasn't provided adequate money for the defense. (Click here for more)
June 29, 2005 - Anna's journey in detentions living hell The Australian IN his explosive report on the detention scandals, former police commissioner Mick Palmer refers to Cornelia Rau's four months in Baxter detention centre as "Anna's journey". (Click here for more)
June 29, 2005 - Halfway house guards accused of taking bribes News 9 Tuesday night prison guards are being accused of taking bribes. (Click here for more)
June 28, 2005 - Report critical of Y-12 security Knox News A federal inspection found that Oak Ridge guards routinely worked excessive overtime and, in some instances, received less training than recommended for high-security nuclear installations. (Click here for more)
June 28, 2005 - Prisoners illegally transported to USVI Carribean Net News A clerical error on the part of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) led to the May 16 illegal transport of two female prisoners to the US Virgin Islands from the state of Florida (Click here for more)
June 28, 2005 - State to probe inmate's death at CCA prison Wise County Messenger The Office of the Inspector General will investigate the death of an inmate who was housed at the Corrections Corporation of America in Bridgeport. (Click here for more)
June 28, 2005 - Frio County jails record not so clean American-Statesman Travis County plans to send 100 inmates to a jail near San Antonio that, although recently upgraded, has been cited for violating state rules and recently lost a federal contract after five inmates escaped in broad daylight. (Click here for more)
June 27, 2005 - County eyes new approach to jail
Tyler Paper It's
no longer a choice between public and private, Smith County officials say - it's
a matter of combining the best of both to come up with a workable solution to
jail overcrowding. (Click
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June 27, 2005 - Got pizza? Hernando Today A Hernando County Jail inmate has been charged with petit theft when he was caught slipping out of a holding cell and stealing a slice of pizza from a corrections officer. (Click here for more)
June 27, 2005 - Appointment of new warden nixed Hernando today The county has vetoed the appointment of a new warden by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to oversee the operation of the county's jail. (Click here for more)
June 27, 2005 - Health care for Va. inmates faulted Times-Dispatch
Medical care for a
growing number of Virginia prisoners is in the hands of a company that
investigators in other states say has a dubious, if not alarming, record.
June 27, 2005 - Wyo inmates in Colorado head to Texas Tribune Capital Bureau Scarcity of space and a recent sexual misconduct scandal have prompted state officials to move the 54 prison inmates Wyoming currently houses at private facilities in Colorado to Texas by the end of the summer. (Click here for more)
June 26, 2005 - Legislature divided on decision to
cut prison Detroit News LANSING
-- State leaders will mothball a northern Michigan prison this year to save
money, but which facility to vacate has emerged as an issue pitting Republicans
against Democrats and two struggling counties against each other.
(Click
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June 26, 2005 - Prisons replace medical provider Fort
Wayne Journal Gazette A
St. Louis-based company serving 300 prisons nationwide is the Indiana Department
of Correction’s choice to take over health care services at 31 state prisons
after the agency decided to drop the contractor that has provided them for eight
years. (Click
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June 26, 2005 - Monitor Private Prisons Loveland Fyi This we know: • More prisoners exist in Colorado than there are cells in the state’s prisons. • No new prisons are under construction. • No money is available to build new prisons even if the state wanted to. (Click here for more)
June 25, 2005 - City is sued over murder suspects suicide Lexington Herald Leader The estate of a murder suspect who hanged himself in the Fayette County jail and later died has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city. (Click here for more)
June 24, 2005 - Inmate work programs planned at two prisons The Daily Oklahoman Inmate work programs will be added at two state prisons in the coming months. The Corrections Board on Thursday approved two new service partnership programs: one with Jacobs Trading Co., based in Plymouth, Minn., and another with The Oklahoman, based in Oklahoma City. (Click here for more)
June 24 2005 - County not happy with CCA warden choice St. Pete Times The job of warden at the Hernando County Jail comes with little job security these days. (Click here for more)
June 24 2005 - Hernando warden to be transferred Hernando Today The warden at Hernando County Jail has been removed from her position and is awaiting transfer to another assignment. No reason was given. (Click here for more)
June 24, 2005 - America Service Group announces its
subsidiary not selected for contract negotiations America Service Group
Inc. America
Service Group Inc. (NASDAQ:ASGR - News) announced today that its subsidiary,
Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS), has been informed by the Indiana Department
of Correction (IDOC) that, as a result of a rebid process, it has not been
selected to enter negotiations for a new inmate healthcare contract (Click
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June 24, 2005 - Prison health-care workers vote Copley
news service Frustrated by a lack of progress in contract
talks, more than 350 workers who provide health care services to Illinois prison
inmates have been taking strike-authorization votes, the results of which will
be announced (Click
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June 23, 2005 - County, state deal not as profitable
as first thought Texarkana Gazette Even
though Bowie County recently made what appears to be a lucrative deal to hold
some 325 state inmates, the county will actually collect less than a quarter of
the income. (Click
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June 23, 2005 - Police bust Jail drug ring zwire.com
In the usual
scenario, people caught using heroin go to jail, but last week authorities
discovered the obverse is also true: People who go to jail get caught using
heroin.
June 23, 2005 - Year later, no answers in prisoner's
death Tennessean Mother
of woman who died of blow to head says justice is 'taking too long' (Click
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June 23, 2005 - Prison termed needless Rutland
herald An
advocacy group claims the death of a prison inmate suffering from heroin
withdrawal could have been prevented if staff had provided better medical care. (Click
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June 23, 2005 - Letter shows inmate's anguish The
State The day before he hanged himself in his Richland
County jail cell, Antonio Richburg said in a letter that he had gone seven days
without his medication and that he was stabbing himself in the arm. (Click
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June23, 2005 - Crowley riot defendant takes plea,
adds 8 years Lajunta Tribune Democrat Reuben
Sustaita was just months from the end of his prison sentence being served in
Crowley County Correctional Facility for second degree vehicular theft and
criminal attempt to escape when he took part in the July 21, 2004 riot. (Click
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June 23, 2005 - Testimony centers on alleged drug ring The Oklahoman A new grand jury spent parts of Tuesday and Wednesday hearing secret testimony about a possible prison drug smuggling ring. (Click here for more)
June 23, 2005 - Prisons watching for racial tension The Oklahoman A private prison has been locked down since Saturday amid heightened concerns statewide about racial tension among inmates. (Click here for more)
June 23, 2005 - Inmate's family files civil lawsuit
over suicide Albuquerque Journal About
a year before homicide suspect Juan Ignacio-Sanchez hung himself with his own
shoelaces in a cell at the Santa Fe County jail, the U.S. Department of Justice
issued a report stating that the jail's suicide prevention policies were
"seriously deficient." (Click
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June 23, 2005 - ACLU sues provider over health care
of Mississippi inmates Associated Press The
American Civil Liberties Union has sued the St.
June 22, 2005 - Jail warden removed Hernando Today The warden at the Hernando County Jail has been removed from her position and is awaiting transfer to another assignment, although no details were given on the reason behind the sudden removal. (Click here for more)
June 22, 2005 - ACLU Sues major medical provider over deficient care in Mississippi prison ACLU National Prison Project DC-Citing the extreme health risks faced by nearly 1000 men confined in a Mississippi prison, the American Civil Liberties Union and the law firm Holland & Knight today filed a lawsuit against one of the country's largest for-profit medical providers for prisoners. (Click here for more)
June 21, 2005 - Private Prisons hurt by scandal over
sexual misconduct Rocky Mountain News Three
states could pull their inmates from Colorado's private prisons by the end of
the summer, spooked by a recent sexual misconduct scandal and squeezed by
Colorado's own rising prisoner population. (Click
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June 20, 2005 - Drug-smuggling ring uncovered at private prison The Associated Press State & Local Wire Drug-smuggling ring that provided inmates at a private prison with marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine and heroine will be the focus of a multi-county grand jury investigation that begins Tuesday. (Click here for more)
June
20, 2005 - CCA buys influence? Never! Rocky Mountain News
The
company that runs most of Colorado's much-criticized private prisons showered
state lawmakers with campaign cash over the last five years. (Click
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June 19, 2005 - Alone and asking why St.
Petersburg Times Oscar
Torres sometimes rolls over in bed and talks out loud with a wife who's no
longer there. (Click
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June 18, 2005 - Texas company apologizes for
Arkansas teenage inmate's death AP A
Houston-based company responsible for managing the Alexander Youth Services
Center has apologized for the death of a female teenage inmate who died while in
Arkansas custody. (Click
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June 17, 2005 - CCA accountable to public The Tennessean When Corrections Corporation of America contracts with this city to operate local jails, it obligates itself to comply with open records laws. (Click here for more)
June 16, 2005 - Guard fired by state prisons rehired by state, county youth lockups AP The state fired a prison guard for having sex with an inmate. Now, the man has been hired by state- and county-run youth lockups. (Click here for more)
June 16, 2005 - Senators grill lockup staff Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette State
legislators Wednesday were critical of Alexander Youth Services Center employees
responsible for 17-year-old LaKeisha Brown on the day she died and said her
death should be investigated further. (Click
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June 16, 2005 - State investigation confirms Panhandle inmate killed self AP A state investigation has confirmed that a Bay County Jail inmate committed suicide in a shower room and found no evidence officials or other prisoners knew he planned to kill himself. (Click here for more)
June 15, 2005 - State prisons; Let needs and cost, not politics, pick ones to close Detroit Free Press The fight over which state prisons to close has become ridiculously political. (Click here for more)
June 14, 2005 - DOC lax about private prisons Pueblo Chieftain The Colorado Department of Corrections has been lax in its oversight of private prisons, and has ignored known problems for years, according to a scathing state audit released Monday. (Click here for more)
June 14, 2005 - Guv should back away from private-prison idea Santa Fe New Mexican It's a depressing prospect, made more so by the way it's being faced: Gov. Bill Richardson says he supports Corrections Director Joe Williams' pitch for a new state prison. (Click here for more)
June 14, 2005 - Private prison care blasted Colorado Springs Gazette Two Colorado inmates died last year because their prescription medications were changed by unlicensed medical clinics in private prisons, according to a stinging audit that charged the state with lax oversight of an out-of-control private prison system. (Click here for more)
June 14, 2005 - Private prisons in Colo. remiss Denver Post Privately owned prisons in Colorado fall far short of minimum safety and medical standards, possibly resulting in the deaths of two inmates and the early release of a sex offender, according to an audit released Monday. (Click here for more)
June 14, 2005 - Auditors assail private prisons Rocky Mountain News Colorado's private prisons are riddled with problems that allowed some sex offenders out early, contributed to a riot, and may have led to two inmate deaths, a state audit declared Monday. (Click here for more)
June 11, 2005 - At the mercy of private guards The Australian THE security tape showing the "reception" of Indian national Pavan Kumar Tripuraneni at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney is dark and grainy. (Click here for more)
June 10, 2005 - Medical care at Rikers fails in evaluation New York Times A recent evaluation of the company in charge of inmate health care at Rikers Island, coming months after it was awarded a new $300 million contract, has found that it has failed to meet a number of the most basic treatment goals. (Click here for more)
June 10, 2005 - Ailing system struggles with inmate care Baltimore Sun In mid-March 2002, Marcella N. Leski, 39, was jailed for failing to appear in court on a drug-possession charge. (Click here for more)
June 10, 2005 - S.C. jail sued six times over medical treatment from Tenn. company AP Richland County has been sued at least six times in the past two years by people who say the jail did not provide proper medical care. (Click here for more)
June 9, 2005 - Polk officials vote to settle jail-death suit Des Moines Register The Polk County Board of Supervisors will pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by relatives of a man who died in the county jail after his arrest for reckless driving. (Click here for more)
June 7, 2005 - Prison sausage joke backfires Herald Sun THE Corrections Commissioner is awaiting the outcome of an investigation into the alleged abuse of a prisoner at Port Phillip Prison before deciding whether to penalise the prison's private operator. (Click here for more)
June 7, 2005 - Catholic priest still locked out of prison Wise County Messenger The Rev. Gil Pansza and an official with The Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth met with officials of the Bridgeport Correctional Center Wednesday to discuss Pansza’s dismissal as a volunteer from the men’s division of the center, but Pansza said he remains barred from the facility. (Click here for more)
June 5, 2005 - Guarding Glendale The Advertiser SECURITY guards have been moved on to the grounds of Glenside Mental Health Service to watch over nine Baxter detainees receiving treatment. (Click here for more)
June 5, 2005 - Worsening prison-bed shortage sends more inmates out of state Seattle Times Up to 300 Washington inmates soon will fly out on the "chain plane" to rented prison cells across the country in a strategy to ease overcrowding. (Click here for more)
June 4, 2005 - Seventh man charged in prison death Stillwater News Press A seventh man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a prison inmate during a riot at the Cimarron Correctional Facility. (Click here for more)
June 3, 2005 - Cornell board surrenders to Private Capital Houston Business Journal Insurgent shareholder Pirate Capital LLC has captured the board of Cornell Cos. Inc. (Click here for more)
June 3, 2005 - Major auto theft, fraud ring busted The Denver Channel Seventeen people have been indicted in a massive operation that may be responsible for dozens of stolen cars and more than 100 cases of fraud and theft around the metro area, the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said Friday. (Click here for more)
June 3, 2005 - Local officials dig in for Newberry prison fight The Evening News Though clearly worried, a Luce County official today said the threatened closing of state prisons in Newberry and Manistique is hauntingly familiar territory for local people. (Click here for more)
June 3, 2005 - Prison health-care costs under magnifying glass Decatur Daily With its magnifying glass focused on inmate health expenses, a legislative committee came up with as many questions as answers Thursday for the spiraling medical costs for state prisoners. (Click here for more)
June 3, 2005 - First inmate charged in Crowley prison riot Pueblo Chieftain Prosecutors have filed the first charge against an inmate in connection with a July riot at the Crowley County Correctional Facility. (Click here for more)
June 3, 2005 - Inmates allege harsh treatment Pueblo Chieftain The 120 Colorado inmates who are serving sentences in Mississippi are being treated inhumanely, according to one inmate. (Click here for more)
June 3, 2005 - Ex-prison chief Whitworth upbeat at appeal Atlanta Journal-Constitution Former state prisons chief Bobby Whitworth seemed upbeat Thursday as he appeared before the state Court of Appeals to ask that his felony conviction for illegally influencing legislation be tossed out. (Click here for more)
June 2, 2005 - Prison pacts withstand opposition The Daily Record Opposition from some civil liberties advocacy groups could not stop the Board of Public Works from approving contracts yesterday with five companies to provide health care services at the state's correctional facilities. (Click here for more)
June 2, 2005 - Wackenhut Detention Center will close at end of June Queens Chronicle The Wackenhut Detention Center in Springfield Gardens will close next month because of high detainee costs. (Click here for more)
June 2, 2005 - Opponents of plans to privatize the Shelby County jail protest WMCTV Opponents of plans to privatize the Shelby County jail protested Thursday. (Click here for more)
June 2, 2005 - Prison bars local priest from performing services Wise County Messenger A Wise County priest says he has been barred from performing church services or visiting with offenders at the men’s division of the Bridgeport Correctional Center. (Click here for more)
June 2, 2005 - Prison life 'better than detention' The Australian HE was locked up alongside convicted criminals in a maximum-security prison, but Iranian asylum-seeker Zal Shahbazi was happy to be there. (Click here for more)
June 2, 2005 - State's costs for inmates' health care could rise 60% Baltimore Sun After five years of relatively stable health care costs for inmates, the state Board of Public Works approved an increase in spending of more than 60 percent yesterday that could push the annual tab to $110 million as officials try to improve medical services for the state's 27,000 prisoners, particularly in Baltimore's troubled jail facilities. (Click here for more)
June 2, 2005 - Sheriff, mayor aren't ready to sign off on privatization Commercial Appeal Shelby County Sheriff Mark Luttrell and Mayor A C Wharton are not convinced the case has been made to privatize management of the county's prison and jail populations. (Click here for more)
June 2, 2005 - Ex-state prisons chief appeals conviction Atlanta Journal-Constitution Former state prisons chief Bobby Whitworth, once one of Georgia's most influential state officials, will be back in court today to ask the state Court of Appeals to toss out his conviction for illegally influencing legislation. (Click here for more)
June 1, 2005 - Tennessee-based Prison Health Services sues Baltimore County The Daily Record The company that provides medical services to Baltimore County inmates is arguing that it should not have to continue delivering those services at the county's expanded prison. (Click here for more)
June 1, 2005 - Prison 'pampering' move angers MP
BBC Inmates at a new mixed prison in Cambridgeshire are to be offered
massages and relaxation treatments. (Click
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