SEPTEMBER, 2003
September 26, 2003 - Detention centre cover-up (Business
Review Weekly)
The Government has been hiding the
real reasons why a private company lost the contract to run six
immigration detention centres. (Click
here for more)
September 25, 2003 - Inmate's mother sues
warden, guards in death (The Advocate)
The mother of former South Louisiana Correctional Center inmate Gregory
Lee has filed a lawsuit alleging that Lee was beaten and tortured before
being transferred to Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel,
where he died. (Click
here for more)
September 20, 2003 - ACLU suing maximum-security prison (Palm
Beach Post)
The state's maximum-security prison for girls is deliberately refusing
to release public records, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by the
American Civil Liberties Union. (Click
here for more)
September 19, 2003 - Guard arrested in prison
drug case (Las Vegas Sun)
A yearlong drug smuggling operation at the Southern Nevada Women's
Prison in North Las Vegas has been broken up with the arrest of a guard
and another woman, the state Department of Public Safety said Wednesday.
(Click
here for more)
September 18, 2003 - Questions surround a juvenile's escape to
death (Post-Gazette.com)
Joyce Lake had just returned home Sunday evening when she got a call
from officials at the Allegheny Academy juvenile detention center asking
if she knew where her 17-year-old son Troy was.
(Click
here for more)
September 15, 2003 - Sexual harassment cases grow to seven (Daily
World)
Lawyer Bruce Rozas, who was handling four sexual harassment cases
against LCS Corrections Services Inc., which operates private,
for-profit prisons in Basile and Pine Prairie, is now handling seven.
(Click
here for more)
September 14, 2003 - Audit faults state prisons
for low pay, laxity on contracts (Knox News)
The state Department of Correction needs to do more to enforce contract
provisions with private companies and prepare inmates for release into
society, a state audit says. (Click
here for more)
September 12, 2003 - Basile prison employees
fired after complaints (The Advertiser)
Two employees who filed complaints against the South Louisiana
Correctional Center near Basile have lost their jobs. (Click
here for more)
September 11, 2003 - Basile prison employees
charge harassment (Daily World)
Two female employees of the South Louisiana Correctional Center near
Basile have come forward, charging the private, for-profit prison with
fostering an institutional atmosphere of sexual harassment and
intimidation. (Click
here for more)
September 10, 2003 - Lawsuit against Kit Carson
Correctional Center (9News KUSA-TV)
A lawsuit making its way through the federal courts charges that the
staff at a privately run prison in eastern Colorado allowed an inmate to
die after they failed to provide him with needed medication.
(Click
here for more)
September 6, 2003 - Former inmate sues over jailhouse beating (ABQ
Journal)
Two years ago, two former guards at the Santa Fe
County jail placed a handcuffed Tony Sanchez in now-convicted killer
Ivan Lara-Sanchez's cell. (Click
here for more)
September 5, 2003 - Convict's cut bled
profusely, inmate says (Toronto Star)
According to a fellow inmate, the cut on Jeffrey Elliott's hand wasn't
that big originally.
(Click
here for more)
September 4, 2003 - Death from cut at jail
probed (Toronto Star)
The father of a 20-year-old man who died from blood poisoning while
serving time at Canada's first privately run jail is demanding to know
how his son's cut hand led to his death. (Click
here for more)
September 4, 2003 - MTC looses jail contract! (Santa
Fe New Mexican)
McKinley
County is terminating its contract with the Utah-based company that has
been operating the county jail, a facility plagued by problems. (Click
here for more)
September 4, 2003 - No more prison pregnancies
found (Las Vegas Sun)
No more pregnancies were discovered among 535 female inmates in the
state prison who were tested for pregnancy after one convict reported
that a prison employee impregnated her, the state Department of
Corrections announced Tuesday. (Click
here for more)
September 3, 2003 - Security firm president defends hiring
practices (Tennessean.com)
The president of a private security firm at the center of a federal
civil-rights lawsuit contends that he has ''nothing to hide'' as lawyers
and state regulators begin combing through the firm's hiring practices
and patrol activities. (Click
here for more)
September 3, 2003 - Ex-guard who raped girl to
be evaluated (Santa Fe New Mexican)
A former corrections officer at the Santa Fe County Youth Development
Program who pleaded guilty to raping a juvenile inmate will be released
on house arrest and must undergo additional psychological evaluation
before sentencing, state District Judge Michael Vigil ruled Tuesday.
(Click
here for more)
September 3, 2003 - Distasteful chapter closes (The
Chronicle)
Mrs. Diane Wilbur says she has reached a kind of closure. It took
a lot of perseverance, and even guts, for her to stand up to a
multimillion-dollar corporation, but last week in Federal District Court
in Ocala, she was vindicated. (Click
here for more)
September 2, 2003 - Prisoner who killed inmate found hanged (AP)
A convict who was waiting to be sentenced for
killing another inmate was found hanged in his cell over the holiday
weekend, prison authorities said. (Click
here for more)
September 2, 2003 - Jail guard pleads guilty to
rape (The New Mexican)
A former corrections officer at Santa Fe County’s youth jail pleaded
guilty Friday to criminal charges for having sex with a juvenile inmate
at the facility this spring. (Click
here for more)
September 2, 2003 - Prison health care is
investigated (STL Today)
Virginia Terry was thankful when her daughter, a drug addict suffering
from bipolar disorder, got locked up at the women's prison in Vandalia,
Mo., for a forgery conviction. (Click
here for more)
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