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August 26, 2008 - Hearings for inmates in jail escape Salem
News Four inmates who broke out of the Columbiana County Jail
earlier this month will face preliminary hearings on felony escape
charges Thursday in county Municipal Court.
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August 25, 2008 - Teen caught with pot near prison Mineral Wells Index A 14-year-old male was taken into custody late Thursday night near the Corrections Corporation of America facility after they were notified of a “suspicious person” in the 700 block of Heintzelman Road. (Click here for more)
August 22, 2008 - Migrant children 'held too long' BBC An immigration removal centre has wrongfully detained disabled children and transports families in metal cages, the prisons' inspectorate has found. (Click here for more)
August 22, 2008 - A Yarl's Wood detainee speaks out BBC A report into an immigrant removal centre in Bedfordshire has condemned its treatment of children. (Click here for more)
August 22, 2008 - Murder remand prisoner found dead BBC A father on remand accused of murdering his baby son has been found hanged in his prison cell, it has been revealed. (Click here for more)
August 21, 2008 - Inmate suicide could be second for prison program The Times News The state's Virtual Prison Program is only a year old and the Monday death of inmate Randall McCullough, 37, could be the second suicide involving the initiative outside of Idaho. (Click here for more)
August 21, 2008 - CCA shows a flair for creative PR fiction The Nashville Scene So this is hilarious. Corrections Corporation of America, the widely condemned prison company in Green Hills, has launched a Pravda-styled website aimed at providing "factual information" about its operations. (Click here for more)
August 20, 2008 - Escapees smashed lock on door The Vindicator Four prisoners broke out of the Columbiana County Jail by smashing a lock on a steel door. (Click here for more)
August 20, 2008 - Sheriff: Jail staff may have skipped check Salem News A procedure to ensure inmates are in their cells after lockdown may not have happened Sunday night when four prisoners escaped from the maximum security section of the Columbiana County jail, according to Sheriff David Smith. (Click here for more)
August 20, 2008 - Cellmate describes pain of detainee who died New York Times A lawsuit filed in federal court a year ago by a Dominican detainee makes complaints about health care at a detention center in Rhode Island that are similar to accounts of how the center treated a Chinese New Yorker who died Aug. 6 in immigration custody. (Click here for more)
August 19, 2008 - Jail’s private operator plans investigation Salem News A spokesman for the private firm operating the Columbiana County Jail said company personnel will work with Sheriff David Smith to investigate an escape of four prisoners and take the necessary steps to ensure it doesn't happen again. (Click here for more)
August 15, 2008 - Corrections Corp. spent $240K lobbying in 2Q AP Private prison company Corrections Corp. of America spent $240,000 lobbying the federal government on legislation dealing with prison spending and policy, according to a recent disclosure form. (Click here for more)
August 14, 2008 - Detainees continue hunger strike BBC Thirteen Iraqi Kurds began fasting on Saturday in protest against deportation and reports an Iraqi man killed himself after being deported from the UK. (Click here for more)
August 14, 2008 - Ex-inmate helps make Bush nominee 'controversial' AP Had this been like most nominations for federal judgeships, the chief lawyer with Corrections Corporation of America might have been packing up his office and heading for the courthouse by now. (Click here for more)
August 13, 2008 - Former inmate champions prison reform Tennessean Alex Friedmann doesn't think people can see past his conviction, so he's the first one to bring it up. (Click here for more)
August 13, 2008 - Fla. prison accused in inmate's staph death Fort Mills Times The family of an inmate who died from a drug- resistant staph infection claims she contracted it because she had been deprived of water for bathing and toilet use at a privately operated state prison. (Click here for more)
August 13, 2008 - WPRB Exclusive: A strange tale of life and death at a private prison WPRB The administrators of the Gadsden Correctional Facility, a 1,500-inmate women’s prison just south of Gretna, Florida, near the Georgia border, have been under scrutiny in the past. (Click here for more)
August 12, 2008 - Businessman Weimar paid candidate to push prison Anchorage Daily News Bill Weimar, who made his fortune off private halfway houses in Alaska, pleaded guilty Monday to two federal felonies in U.S. District Court in Anchorage. (Click here for more)
August 12, 2008 - Correctional Medical Services to lay off 949 in N.J. The Star-Ledger Correctional Medical Services said it plans to lay off 949 workers in New Jersey next month, after losing its $85 million contract for prison health care services in the state to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. (Click here for more)
August 11, 2008 - Joplin City Council decides to assume control over jail, MAPS operations Joplin Globe Joplin will take over operations of the city jail and a transportation service instead of contracting the services to outside vendors, the City Council decided Monday night. (Click here for more)
August 11, 2008 - A spokesman for the state’s largest law enforcement association is calling for state and federal investigations into dealings between McLennan County officials and a private detention corporation as the county continues to negotiate jail contracts Waco Tribune A spokesman for the state’s largest law enforcement association is calling for state and federal investigations into dealings between McLennan County officials and a private detention corporation as the county continues to negotiate jail contracts. (Click here for more)
August 6, 2008 - Inmate: I made bomb to blow up South Bay guard Palm Beach Post A prison inmate confessed to crafting a homemade bomb to try to blow up a guard, and the guard has been charged with smuggling contraband into the prison, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. (Click here for more)
August 1, 2008 - Second inmate charged in Lawton prison killing AP A prison inmate has been handed a life sentence for the 2007 slaying of his cell mate at a private prison in Lawton. (Click here for more)
August 1, 2008 - Inmate's
slaying in CCA custody torments ex-cellmate Tennessean
Sharron Peterman says her memories of Estelle Richardson have haunted
her for years.
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