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MTC failed to provide enough staff, including 12,000 unfilled mandatory shifts from 2017 to 2020, to ensure the safety of prison employees and inmates
The 5-year contract for $45.7M is to feed 23,000 inmates in 20 state-operated prisons for $1.77 per meal
The 2019 state law would have phased out privately run immigration jails in California by 2028
In the “kids-for-cash” scandal, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan shut down county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from co-owner of two for-profit lockups
The story got national attention after a judge ordered the plaintiff’s attorney to stop tweeting about it
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffery Frensley issued the order last week in response to an argument from Tennessee-based CoreCivic that the public posts put the company’s right to a fair trial at risk
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“Immigrants held in GEO’s for-profit facilities are not criminals and should not be beholden to enriching the corporation’s bottom line,” said an attorney
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The jury will now consider how much back pay is owed — an amount expected to run into the millions
Other states have passed similar measures, including Illinois, Nevada, New York and Washington
The ACLU urges the White House “to defeat these blatant efforts to strip the Executive Order of any meaningful impact”
Understaffing has meant that some employees are doing the work of three or four people, union leadership said
A 10-page letter emailed Thursday to a White House office and local officials details stabbings, suicides, a homicide and inmate rights violations
Some lawmakers argue that closing the private prisons altogether would be a better option
Jury selection is underway in a trial to determine whether GEO Group must pay minimum wage to detainees at its Wash. state immigration detention center
Jim Zeigler has criticized the plan to lease two new privately run men’s prisons as a poor use of taxpayer dollars
The underwriter pulled out following criticism that it was breaking a promise not to get involved in for-profit prisons
The study concluded that the prisons should remain open for now, largely due to the negative economic impact closure could have on the areas
The closure of the prison that employs nearly 300 people is “the worst economic news” for the region, an official said
Advocacy groups warned that privately built prisons won’t address chronic violence and severe staffing woes
“This is a first step to stop corporations from profiting off of incarceration,” Biden said
Under the ruling, at least four immigration detention centers with the capacity to house approximately 5,000 people would be phased out over the coming years
The financial terms will be disclosed when the deals are final, which the Ivey administration expects to be late this year
Gov. Kay Ivey described the move as a step toward overhauling an understaffed and violence-plagued prison system beset by years of federal criticism
GEO and CoreCivic recently agreed to long-term contracts with the Trump administration for several immigration detention centers in Texas and California
The lawsuit alleges the state law unconstitutionally interferes with the federal prison and immigration detention systems
The GEO Group, Inc., claims that a new ban on for-profit lockups in California is unconstitutional
CoreCivic is preparing for changes in the private sector should a Democratic presidential candidate win the 2020 election
As part of the plan, the state would house prisoners at former max security prison for inmates in solitary confinement
California will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities, including those under contract to the federal government to hold immigrants awaiting deportation hearings