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March 31, 2006 - 200 prison warders still striking in Limpopo SABC News More than 200 striking prison warders at the Kutama Sinthumule private prison outside Makhado in Limpopo say they won't return to work until they receive outstanding salary allowances. (Click here for more) March 30, 2006 - Second lawsuit filed against prison operator Rocky Mountain News A second lawsuit has been filed by 150 more inmates of the Crowley County Correctional Facility in Olney Springs charging its private operator, Corrections Corporation of America, with negligence in a July 20, 2004, riot. (Click here for more) March 29, 2006 - Negligence charged in death of man injured while in jail Herald-Leader Lexington jailers, a nurse, police and medics were grossly negligent by denying medical care to a deteriorating Gerald Cornett, who died in August from injuries suffered in jail, a Fayette Circuit Court lawsuit alleges. (Click here for more) March 28, 2006 - Nurse is no longer at Macomb jail Free Press Lori Helhowski, the nurse who delivered the first baby born in the Macomb County Jail, says she has been fired from her job there. (Click here for more) March 28, 2006 - Official's action on contract under fire Tennessean A security company has formally protested a Metro government official's decision to throw out a controversial security contract solicitation process. (Click here for more) March 27, 2006 - State cutbacks seen as threat to juvenile justice Palm Beach Post Months after declaring the Florida Institute for Girls a failed experiment, the state decided to reopen its top-security building as a program for 80 boys. (Click here for more) March 26, 2006 - Information on lockdown San Bernardino County Sun San Bernardino County leaders have mischaracterized the findings of an investigation into a $28 million prison purchase and should release confidential documents related to the review, according to an internal Board of Supervisors memo. (Click here for more) March 25, 2006 - Jail on defensive after murder The Age THE private company that operates Port Phillip Prison has defended its security measures after an inmate was murdered on Thursday. (Click here for more) March 24, 2006 - Fugitive in custody 6 days after escape Union-Tribune After a six-day manhunt, authorities yesterday located fugitive Tracy Eugene Jones at a 29th Street apartment in Golden Hill and took him into custody. (Click here for more) March 24, 2006 - Nurse who delivered baby at jail fired for relationship with inmate Macomb Daily A nurse at the Macomb County Jail who made history by delivering the first baby there may now seek legal action against her former employer, who has cited her relationship with a former inmate as grounds to fire her. (Click here for more) March 24, 2006 - Growing rift leads to attack on Wesch St Petersburg Times County Commissioner Vicki Phillips said she has "lost trust" in County Administrator Richard Wesch over his handling of the allegations of abuse at the Citrus County jail. (Click here for more) March 23, 2006 - Third suit filed over staph infections The Daily Journal Gloucester County faces a third lawsuit over an outbreak of drug-resistant staph infections at the county jail in 2003 and 2004. (Click here for more) March 23, 2006 - Inquest hears of cellmate's fear BBC An inquest has heard of concerns of a prison officer and a cellmate for the mental health of a remand prisoner, who was later found hanged in his cell. (Click here for more) March 22, 2006 - Bay County Jail warden resigns News Herald It's time again to put the "Help Wanted" sign out in front of the Bay County Jail after the facility experienced another sudden departure of its warden. (Click here for more) March 22, 2006 - State steps in to head inquiry on Citrus jail St Petersburg Times The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will lead an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing at the Citrus County jail. (Click here for more) March 21, 2006 - Jail picks supervisor for health provider Gwinnett Daily Post In the wake of a highly publicized inmate death and complaints about poor health care at the Gwinnett County Detention Center, a high-ranking deputy has been tasked with overseeing the jail’s contracted medical staff. (Click here for more) March 21, 2006 - Bank robber escapes on his way to hospital San Diego Union-Tribune Federal and San Diego law enforcement officers are seeking the public's help in finding a convicted bank robber who escaped from federal custody Friday while being transported to a San Diego hospital. (Click here for more) March 21, 2006 - Leaders never told of jail issues St Petersburg Times County commissioners said they weren't notified when allegations of inmate abuse at the Citrus County jail surfaced in 2004. Now they want to know why. (Click here for more) March 21, 2006 - Judge wants Reliance statements BBC A judge has ruled that sworn statements should be produced by staff from a prisoner escort firm after it caused a delay in continuing a murder trial. (Click here for more) March 20, 2006 - County set to hire jail overseer Hernando Today The county’s search is narrowing for someone to oversee its contract with operations of the county jail. (Click here for more) March 20, 2006 - Jail employee felt pressured to have sex toy party KETV A Douglas County correctional employee has filed a formal complaint against a supervisor alleging that the boss pressures employees into having home parties to sell sex toys. (Click here for more) March 20, 2006 - Detainees 'developed mental illness' The Age AT LEAST two long-term immigration detainees — one held for 6˝ years — are in a psychiatric hospital after developing mental problems while in detention, the Greens claim. (Click here for more) March 19, 2006 - Prison officers sacked over 'Sausagegate' The Age FOUR prison officers have been sacked and two more counselled in the wake of the so-called "Sausagegate" scandal, which hurt and humiliated a vulnerable inmate of the privately owned and run Port Phillip Prison. (Click here for more) March 18, 2006 - Moldy air cuts into inmates' classes Lakeland Ledger A myriad of air quality issues have forced the Polk County School District to indefinitely close the school at a juvenile detention center in Polk City. (Click here for more) March 18, 2006 - Jail birth was felony child abuse, lawyer says Tampa Tribune Clint Joshua Grey barely whimpered when he was born two years ago over a jail cell toilet, but his death sounded an alarm about the care of pregnant inmates in Hillsborough County. (Click here for more) March 17, 2006 - Police: Nurse fakes cancer to get donations Enquirer Seeing her with her head shaved, it apparently was easy for Stacey Erwin's co-workers to believe she was being treated for cancer, and they wanted to help. (Click here for more) March 17, 2006 - Teen's late autopsy file puzzles some lawmakers Florida Times-Union It took five months for the state to release the autopsy report Thursday for a Jacksonville teen who died in juvenile facility, drawing concern from some lawmakers especially after another boy's taped beating death in January. (Click here for more) March 16, 2006 - Escapee arrested in Jefferson Parish KATC TV Authorities in Jefferson Parish have captured an escapee from the Caldwell Detention Center. (Click here for more) March 16, 2006 - Jail trip bungle Geelong Informant PORT Phillip Prison operator Global Solutions Limited (GSL) was yesterday called to account over its bungling of a prisoner's delivery to Geelong County Court on Tuesday. (Click here for more) March 16, 2006 - Doubts over Home Office e-tagging Kable's Government Computing Home Office assumptions about the high performance of tagging equipment, used to monitor prisoners on early release, is based on "woefully inadequate" evidence, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee were told on 15 March 2006. (Click here for more) March 16, 2006 - CCA settles suit in death of inmate Gallatin News Examiner A wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a Metro jail inmate who died of massive head injuries in a solitary confinement cell has been settled. (Click here for more) March 16, 2006 - America Service stock plummets on investigation findings Nashville Business Journal Prison health care services company America Service Group Inc. has released the findings of an internal investigation into financial improprieties at its Secure Pharmacy Plus subsidiary. (Click here for more) March 16, 2006 - Metro awards security contract to high bidder The Tennessean A Metro board awarded a five-year security contract yesterday to a bidder whose proposal is $4.7 million more than a competitor's proposal. (Click here for more) March 16, 2006 - Bullied employee awarded $1.9m The Age WHEN Devandar Naidu was at work his boss would kick his chair from beneath him. The security guard was subjected over four years to names such as "coconut head" and "monkey face". (Click here for more) March 15, 2006 - CentraCore shares stage rebound AP Private prison owner CentraCore Properties Trust shares rebounded Tuesday after an analyst said the stock's recent 20 percent decline makes it a good buying opportunity. (Click here for more) March 15, 2006 - Richland tackles rash of jail suicides The State Richland County officials plan to nearly double medical staffing and increase spending by 42 percent to help prevent inmate suicides and other problems that plagued the jail in recent years. (Click here for more) March 15, 2006 - Sheriff: Escapee likely left area KPLC TV Caldwell Parish Sheriff Steve May says an escaped prisoner from a private prison in his parish has probably left the area. (Click here for more) March 14, 2006 - Detention facility to fight charges Bay News 9 The controversy surrounds if the commission was aware of the abuse at the facility. (Click here for more) March 14, 2006 - Bond set at $500,000 each for men accused in jailbreak AP Bond has been set at $500,000 each for four of the five men accused of getting a prison worker to open a control room door, taking control of the prison and then driving out in a prison employee's truck. (Click here for more) March 14, 2006 - No-bid prison medicine contracts were mismanaged, new boss says St Petersburg Times After a scathing audit of two no-bid contracts for prescription drugs for prison inmates, interim prison boss James McDonough is considering scrapping the deals and having the state do the work itself. (Click here for more) March 14, 2006 - CentraCore shares plunge on tenant threat AP Private prison owner CentraCore Properties Trust shares plummeted Tuesday after its largest tenant threatened to not renew lease agreements, and instead set up competing facilities. (Click here for more) March 14, 2006 - A jail ordeal, a family's tragedy Philadelphia Inquirer Disoriented and scared, Rosalyn Atkinson awoke crying and asked the nurse at her bedside a prophetic question: "Am I going to die?" (Click here for more) March 13, 2006 - GEO logs red Q4, lower year-end earnings South Florida Business Journal The Boca Raton-based correctional and detention management firm said it lost $807,000, or 8 cents a share, on revenue of $164.87 million for the 13 weeks ended Jan. 1. (Click here for more) March 12, 2006 - Five inmates escape Caldwell prison Houma Today Five inmates escaped a privately run prison in Caldwell Parish, but authorities were able to track down all but one of the escaped convicts by Sunday afternoon, the sheriff's office said. (Click here for more) March 12, 2006 - Lawmakers questioning sending high risk prisoners out of state AP A group of Colorado inmates who started a riot at a private prison in Mississippi in 2004 so they could be transferred back to Colorado will force lawmakers to review their policy that allowed the Department of Corrections to ship troublemakers out of state. (Click here for more) March 12, 2006 - Prison operator fined over joke strip-search of inmate The Age THE private company running Port Phillip Prison, GSL Australia, has been fined almost $200,000 and four officers have been suspended over a practical joke that humiliated and hurt a vulnerable prisoner last year. (Click here for more) March 11, 2006 - Suit alleges torture at jail Citrus Chronicle Four former inmates of the Citrus County Detention facility in Lecanto are suing the private company that runs the facility and two former corrections officers, saying their food was tampered with. (Click here for more) March 11, 2006 - Inquiry into jail finds two blunders St Petersburg Times Matthew S. Draper's escape from the Hernando County Jail last month was aided by two mistakes, according to a Corrections Corporation of America report released Friday. (Click here for more) March 10, 2006 - Jail's contract renewal has staff worried about future The Mirror Central North Correctional Centre employees worried about their fate met secretly Wednesday night with OPSEU officials. (Click here for more) March 10, 2006 - Jail guard briefly a prisoner St Petersburg Times Jail guard Nicole Hagins left the Hernando County Jail in the fall on extended sick leave. (Click here for more) March 10, 2006 - A private death Texas Observer The horrors of the Texas prison system rarely escape the jailhouse walls, but a recent lawsuit filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project reveals a climate of negligence and violence in one privately run South Texas prison. (Click here for more) March 9, 2006 - Jail reacts swiftly to attempted suicide Hernando Today An inmate at the Hernando County Jail made an unsuccessful attempt at ending his life Thursday afternoon by breaking the blade out of a disposable razor and cutting his arm. (Click here for more) March 9, 2006 - Federal probe to address prison failures News Journal After years of high inmate death rates due to HIV/AIDS, suicide and poor medical care, federal civil rights regulators have launched an investigation of Delaware's prison medical system. (Click here for more) March 9, 2006 - Ex-guard pleads guilty to 2 jail thefts St Petersburg Times - One month ago, Jeffrey S. Hodges was a guard at the Hernando County Jail. Now he is a convicted felon. (Click here for more) March 8, 2006 - Commission rejects jail referendum proposal Dickson Herald A motion by Dickson County Commissioner Danny Tidwell to let voters decide in the August general election if the county jail should be privatized was shot down Monday night. (Click here for more) March 8, 2006 - Bill to benefit CCA proceeds through Senate Nashville City Paper A bill beneficial to Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America narrowly passed a state Senate panel Tuesday in a party-line vote that Republicans carried. (Click here for more) March 8, 2006 - Bailey and fellow inmates face charges in attack on jail guard News Herald An accused cop killer and a man suspected of leading a 2004 jail floor takeover face additional charges after attacking a jail guard on Tuesday, according to a news release. (Click here for more) March 7, 2006 - CCA wants to eliminate comparison with state prison system Tennessean A private prison contractor in Tennessee wants to remove one layer of oversight comparing its services to state-run prisons. (Click here for more) March 7, 2006 - Univ. investments in private prisons decline Yale Daily News Farallon Capital Management, a hedge fund that invests a portion of Yale's endowment, has sold about two thirds of its stock in a private prison company that campus activists have criticized for alleged human rights abuses. (Click here for more) March 6, 2006 - Guards fault Homeland Security protection USA Today The guards have taken their concerns to Congress, describing inadequate training, failed security tests and slow or confused reactions to bomb and biological threats. (Click here for more) March 6, 2006 - Crowley prison owner has bidding edge Rocky Mountain News Eighteen months ago, inmates rioted at a private prison in Crowley County, setting fires, smashing everything in two cell houses and seriously damaging another three. (Click here for more) March 5, 2006 There's room for a yacht in back of Riviera mansion Miami Herald A Fort Lauderdale mansion at 828 Solar Isle Dr., in the Riviera subdivision, has sold for $8,950,000, or $756 per square foot. (Click here for more) March 4, 2006 - Rifle stolen from nuclear plant found Florida Today A former Wackenhut security guard was arrested and charged in Michigan on Friday with stealing a semiautomatic rifle and a thermal rifle sight from St. Lucie Nuclear Plant, authorities said. (Click here for more) March 3, 2006 - AG: State doesn't need privatization review for meth facility KPAX Attorney General Mike McGrath says the state does not need to undergo privatization review, before awarding a contract for a privately run methamphetamine treatment prison. (Click here for more) March 2, 2006 - Gun hunt at West's jail The Sun A LIVE bullet has been found in the jail holding House of Horrors killer Rose West. (Click here for more) March 2, 2006 - Detention manager gets $5.7m payout Sidney Morning Herald The immigration department made an unexplained $5.7 million payout to the company that used to manage Australia's detention centres, an audit has found. (Click here for more) March 2, 2006 - Meeks condemns prison, Bush at town hall Queens Chronicle Congressman Gregory Meeks took aim at a local prison and the federal budget at a town hall meeting on Monday night. (Click here for more) March 2, 2006 - A throwback to convict labor Birmingham News In the recent letter "Partnerships can ease overcrowding," the executive director of the Association of Private Correctional and Treatment Organizations resorts to smoke and mirrors in promoting privatization as the answer to Alabama's overcrowded prisons. (Click here for more) March 2, 2006 - Prisons often shackle inmates in labor New York Times Shawanna Nelson, a prisoner at the McPherson Unit in Newport, Ark., had been in labor for more than 12 hours when she arrived at Newport Hospital on Sept. 20, 2003. (Click here for more) March 2, 2006 - Detention shake-up follows scandals The Age THE CONTROVERSIAL private operator of Australia's detention centres will not have its lucrative $90-million-a-year contract extended. (Click here for more) March 1, 2006 - Audit of Arlington jail finds medical services expensive and inefficient DC Examiner The cost of medical services for inmates in the Arlington County Detention Facility has gone up, staff turnover is high and service is lacking, according to an audit released this week by the Criminal Justice Institute. (Click here for more) March 1, 2006 - Two former corrections officers aresseted in Larado KGBT Two now-former correction officers at a privately run unit have been arrested today on charges they dealt drugs at the prison. (Click here for more) March 1, 2006 - Order restored after prison strike turns deadly Mail & Guardian Order has returned to the privately owned Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre in Makhado, Limpopo, a spokesperson said on Wednesday -- this after a strike by prison officials led to the death of a 37-year-old inmate and the injury of another. (Click here for more) |
