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January 29, 2012 - 18 prison guards injured in riot at Fulham
Correctional Centre Sunday Herald Sun TRAUMATISED prison
guards who were almost burned alive during the Fulham riots have been
ordered by doctors to not return to work more than 10 days after the
siege.
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January 27, 2012 - Representative government held prisoner in state Senate Tampa Tribune In their quest to privatize state prisons, leaders of the Florida Senate, knowing they lacked the support of members, last year pulled a sneaky move. (Click here for more)
January 26, 2012 - Nurses follow suit over prison privatization suit Palm Beach Post The Florida Nurses Association has filed a lawsuit against the state corrections department over a prison health care privatization effort ordered by lawmakers in the budget last year. (Click here for more)
January 26, 2012 - CCA Appeals Yet Again in Ongoing Open Records Tussle Nashville Scene Yesterday, Corrections Corporation of America filed its latest appeal to block an open records request filed years ago by a nonprofit media organization. (Click here for more)
January 25, 2012 - Private-prisons bill advances in Florida Senate Miami Herald As emotions run high, lawmakers are again fast-tracking privatization of South Florida prisons while the state rushes to shut down seven others, an economic and political one-two punch that is creating anger and anxiety statewide. (Click here for more)
January 25, 2012 - Hernando County, jail contractor reach settlement over withheld payment Tampa Bay Times Hernando County has reached a tentative settlement with Corrections Corporation of America over $1.86 million the county withheld in payments to the former operator of the Hernando County Detention Center. (Click here for more)
January 24, 2012 - Judging Brevard's winners and losers in the news Florida Today Thumbs down: to Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, for fast-tracking the privatization of state prisons by assigning the bills to just one committee, not those typically charged with corrections oversight or judging costs and benefits for taxpayers. (Click here for more)
January 24, 2012 - Guard allegedly found asleep at Oak Ridge nuke facility Knoxville News Sentinel The government's security contractor confirmed Monday it is investigating allegations that a security officer slept on the job and also used an unauthorized cellphone inside a high-security facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (Click here for more)
January 23, 2012 - Birmingham Prison officer arrested over missing keys BBC A prison officer has been arrested by police investigating missing keys at the privatised HMP Birmingham. (Click here for more)
January 23, 2012 - DOC shuttered expensive isolation facilities in prisons to be privatized Orlando Sentinel As the Legislature was steaming toward passage of privatization of a huge chunk of its prison system last spring, public records suggest the Florida Department of Corrections was removing its most violent prisoners from the facilities slated to be outsourced. (Click here for more)
January 23, 2012 - Proposed detention center divides Crete Chicago Tribune A small south suburb has quietly been working with federal officials on a plan to build an immigration lockup of up to 700 beds, placing the semirural town in the middle of a national debate. (Click here for more)
January 23, 2012 - Second fire at Scots prison Deadline News FIREFIGHTERS today tackled the second blaze at a Scottish private prison within 11 days. (Click here for more)
January 21, 2012 - Fired Silverdale worker arraigned in criminal court on sex charge Times Free Press A former female Silverdale correctional officer charged with having a sexual relationship with an inmate will be in court again in March. (Click here for more)
January 20, 2012 - Prison guard jailed for heroin bid UKPA A former Harrow Crown Court prison guard has been jailed for four years for trying to smuggle heroin. (Click here for more)
January 20, 2012 - Criminals on the run after escaping detention centre The Herald Sun THE Melbourne immigration detention centre, which holds killers, drug dealers and failed asylum seekers, has had 25 escapees in three years. (Click here for more)
January 20, 2012 - Escaped Arizona prisoner, accomplice plead guilty Arizona Republic One of the three men who broke out of Arizona’s Kingman prison in 2010, and an accomplice, pleaded guilty Friday in a New Mexico federal court to a host of charges in the murder of an Oklahoma couple during the escape. (Click here for more)
January 20, 2012 - Fasano to Haridopolos: Don’t fast-track prison privatization The Florida Independent In a letter sent to Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos today, state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, writes that the decision to only refer the Legislature’s two controversial prison privatization bills to one committee was the wrong move. (Click here for more)
January 20, 2012 - New details on legislator's DUI arrest The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Rep. Kip Smith spent the hours before his DUI arrest last week with two other state lawmakers being entertained by three lobbyists, including one for brewer Anheuser-Busch, state records show. (Click here for more)
January 20, 2012 - Victorian prisons chief Bob Hastings 'put spin on jail riot' The Australian THE Victorian Corrections Commissioner has been accused of "spin" after blaming a prison riot on inmates angry at losing their pay TV and being forced to use soft toothbrushes that cannot be turned into weapons. (Click here for more)
January 19, 2012 - Lawmaker: Inmates moved before privatization AP A Florida lawmaker says prison employees in his district told him the Department of Corrections last year had moved sicker and more-expensive inmates out of facilities the state was trying to privatize. (Click here for more)
January 18, 2012 - Groups denounce new prison privatization bills The Florida Independent In a state Senate rules committee hearing today, groups showed up to voice their opposition to two bills that would make it easier for the state to privatize prisons — and other government agency functions. (Click here for more)
January 18, 2012 - Prison riot rocks Fulham Correctional Centre in Sale The Herald Sun UPDATE 8.30pm: PRISONERS - some armed - have scaled fences amid a full-scale riot at a major Victorian jail. (Click here for more)
January 17, 2012 - Idaho Dems, GOP both call for more ethics reforms The Spokesman-Review Minority Democrats in the Idaho Legislature announced three new ethics reform proposals Tuesday and called on Republicans to work with them on the bills - and the Republicans agreed. (Click here for more)
January 17, 2012 - Private Corrections Institute Opposes Prison Privatization Effort Sunshine State News The Private Corrections Institute, a Florida-based nonprofit watchdog organization that actually opposes the privatization of correctional services, has -- as would be expected -- “sharply condemned” the latest state effort to privatize correctional facilities in 18 South Florida counties. (Click here for more)
January 14, 2012 - Prison officials remain quiet on details of October riot in Sayre facility Oklahoman A lack of charges filed against inmates involved in an Oct. 11 riot at the North Fork Correctional Facility highlights an ongoing issue between private prisons and authorities, a local prosecutor said. (Click here for more)
January 13, 2012 - Chairman of G4S, world's largest security firm, to step down The Guardian The chairman of the company tasked with protecting athletes and visitors at the London Olympics has paid the price for a failed deal to take over a cleaning company and fallen on his sword. (Click here for more)
January 13, 2012 - Senate Proposes a Stand-Alone Bill to Privatize Prisons Sunshine State News The Senate has proposed, this time as a stand-alone bill, an effort to privatize correctional facilities located in 18 South Florida counties. (Click here for more)
January 12, 2012 - Tyran Reid escaped prison van on its way to Belmarsh after appearing at Greenwich Magistrates’ Court This Is Local London POLICE are looking for a man who escaped from a security van window as he was being driven to Belmarsh. (Click here for more)
January 12, 2012 - Court Says Inmate Can't Sue for Injury Wall Street Journal The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an inmate injured in a privately run federal prison may not sue its employees in federal court, holding that state court was the proper venue for his claim. (Click here for more)
January 11, 2012 - City officials confident prison drama finished Star Beacon Local leaders are confident they have seen the end of the bureaucratic tug-of-war that accompanied the recent sale of Lake Erie Correctional Institution to a private security company. (Click here for more)
January 11, 2012 - A Dawson State Jail employee is in critical condition and a suspect on the loose after a shooting outside the jail Dallas Morning News Update: Lancaster police arrested the suspect in a shooting that critically injured a Dawson State Jail employee Tuesday. (Click here for more)
January 9, 2012 - Jared Polis wants investigation into abuse of LGBT immigrants in detention Westword Colorado Congressman Jared Polis has called for a government investigation into alleged abuse suffered by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender immigrants detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). (Click here for more)
January 9, 2012 - Maine private prison bill headed to dead files AP A bill to allow a privately run prison in Maine, carried over from last year's session, appears headed to the dead files. (Click here for more)
January 9, 2012 - Top Obama campaign aide lobbied for bank bailout Salon The Obama campaign is keeping mum on the role senior advisor Broderick Johnson played in lobbying for the 2008 Wall Street bailout when he worked as a hired gun for the country’s largest financial services companies. (Click here for more)
January 8, 2012 - Sheriff passes jail inspection Hernando Today A new report shows the Hernando County Jail successfully passed its first Florida Model Jail Standards inspection since the sheriff's office took over operations in August 2010. (Click here for more)
January 7, 2012 - Former Silverdale Detention Facility jailer faces sex charges Chattanooga Times Free Press A former correctional officer with the Silverdale Detention Facility has been arrested after a grand jury indicted her on charges of having a sexual relationship with an inmate. (Click here for more)
January 6, 2012 - Prison Health Care Contractor Under Scrutiny MPBN The president of the Maine chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said a state agency review of a company that provides medical services to Maine prison inmates documented problems that rise to "a systemic constitutional dimension." (Click here for more)
January 6, 2012 - Terrell Griswold: Mother questions inmate's "natural" death in private prison Westword On October 28, 2010, a 26-year-old inmate named Terrell Griswold was found slumped over and unresponsive in his cell in the Bent County Correctional Facility, a private prison in southeastern Colorado. (Click here for more)
January 5, 2012 - Coroner calls for prison nurse review North Territory News THE Territory Coroner has called for a review into the number of nurses working at a Darwin prison after a man "suddenly" died of a heart attack in custody. (Click here for more)
January 5, 2012 - Conneaut will track time, cash spent on prison calls Star Beacon The city, in a move that could indicate a lawsuit is looming, will keep tabs on the impact investigations conducted by local police will have on the municipal budget. (Click here for more)
January 5, 2012 - Methodists Divest from Private Prisons Why I Hate CCA The United Methodist Church has just divested itself of its investments in private prison companies, including CCA and the GEO Group. (Click here for more)
January 4, 2012 - 'I was treated like an animal': Man gets time served for 22-hour cornfield manhunt In Forum A sex offender who fled a private prison transport van and led authorities on a 22-hour manhunt last fall in a Barnes County cornfield pleaded guilty to a felony escape charge Wednesday. (Click here for more)
January 4, 2012 - POLICE REPORTS Salem News Adolph Goodman, 33, Youngstown, was arrested at 12:38 a.m. Sunday for escaping from the Corrections Corporation of America Correctional Facility in Youngstown earlier that evening. (Click here for more)
January 3, 2012 - Angry prisoners at Scots jail riot
after crackdown on drugs Daily Record PRISONERS at Addiewell
private jail went on the rampage last night after a crackdown on drugs.
Inmates set fire to furniture and threatened prison officers.
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