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2 Apr 8:43 am
... has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Wackenhut Corporation ("Wackenhut") for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). In the complaint, the former
employee alleges that the ... hourly wages," instead of the time-and-a-half compensation required by law. Additionally, the complaint alleges that Wackenhut acted "willfully, intentionally and in reckless disregard of the rights of [the employees]," because it refused to pay the security ...
16 Jan, 2008 12:04 am
... is employment discrimination against a woman who has, or will have, children. Last week, the 6th Circuit, in Lulaj v. The Wackenhut
Corporation, provides us a good example of this type of stereotyping in action. Lisa Lulaj worked at Chrysler as a ... , "You should consider
this position considering your position." Within a month, Lulaj went out on maternity leave. When Wackenhut refused to promote her to the
originally promised supervisor position at the end of her leave, she decided not to return ...
29 Aug, 2006 5:46 am
... pleaded guilty to the crime and was sentenced to life. Holden's parents, Sheri Kay Dunlap and James Vincent Holden sued Wal-Mart and the store's security company, the
Wackenhut Corporation, alleging that the companies' negligence resulted in their daughter's death.
Dunlap and Holden said the terms of the settlement are confidential. The lawsuit had been scheduled to go to trial tomorrow. Read
17 Apr 3:50 pm
... week, it upheld all but $5 million of the original $47.5 million jury award, noting, "We find Wackenhut's conduct was clearly reprehensible
and, frankly, constituted a disgusting display of disrespect for the welfare of others and ... ("Gregorio"). Gregorio, an honorably discharged former National Guardsman, was serving a
six-month sentence at a prison operated by Wackenhut Corrections Corporation for possession of less
than 1/4 grams of cocaine. A few days before his expected release, Gregorio was ...
10 Apr 1:24 am
... that the 13th Texas Court of Appeals approved a $42.5 million judgment against the Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut), a private prison
contractor over a murder in a South Texas Prison, for failing to protect inmates under their care. According to ... "). Gregorio, an honorably discharged former National Guardsman, was
serving a six-month sentence at a prison operated by Wackenhut Corrections Corporation for possession
of less than 1/4 grams of cocaine. A few days before his expected release, Gregorio ...
6 Jul, 2007 10:22 am
... jail in Beaumont where an inmate used a paper gun to hold two people hostage last week. So with Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut) twice this
week in the news, I decided to take a look at their 10-K statement, which is a corporate document publicly traded companies must file with the FCC. The company is based in
Florida, but has a "central regional office" in New Braunfels, halfway between Austin and San Antonio ...
6 Jul, 2007 12:35 pm
... downtown jail in Beaumont where an inmate used a paper gun to hold two people hostage last week. With Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut) twice
this week in the news, I decided to take a look at their 10-K statement, which is a corporate document publicly traded companies must file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. The company is based in Boca Raton, Florida, but has a "central regional office" ...
22 Sep, 2008 7:39 am
... mariachi band singing Spanish language ballads, a cake in the shape of the GEO Group's corporate logo, and a slew of new GEO Group prison guards (many of whom looked ... to
step back into privatization." [Dina] Tyler cited the state's experience with the Wackenhut Corrections Corp., which ran the Grimes and
McPherson units in Newport from 1998 ... because the company couldn't do what it said it could do," Tyler said. Wackenhut performed poorly in
sanitation and maintenance issues, she said. Tyler also ...
3 Sep 1:52 am
... in June 2009 by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO). Sam Brinkley, vice-president of the ArmorGroup's corporate parent Wackenhut Services,
defended the company's performance in Kabul. "We are a guard company that prides itself in doing ... who spoke with ABC News. He said other shifts tried to complain about the activities
but were ignored by officials from corporate headquarters who visited Kabul. "It was demeaning, it was humiliating and that was the whole point of it all," the guard said. "The
mood and ...
17 Jun, 2008 8:57 am
... of privatized prisons, "super jails," and related services has been a boon for corporations such as Corrections Corporation of
America, Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections Corp.) and their investors. Prisoner leasing programs such as Florida's, ... goals, more and
more prisoners were required, just as more prisoners are required to fulfill the investor goals of Corrections Corporation of America, Geo
Group. In any case, convictions are profitable and the more of them there are, the more money ...
7 Feb, 2007 9:48 pm
... be the law of a defendant's principal place of business. The draft never grapples with the constitutional (extraterritoriality) and practical (corporate migration - think
Delaware and corporate law) implications of this largely rejected approach to choice of law. 15. §2.06, Reporter's Notes to ... . 2005); Colindres v. QuitFlex Manufacturing, 235
F.R.D. 347, 378 (S.D. Tex. 2006); O'Neal, v. Wackenhut Services, Inc., 2006 WL 1469348, at *22 (E.D. Tenn. May 25, 2006); In re Chevron Fire
Cases, 2005 ...
13 Oct, 2007 3:24 am
... Facility are not new by any means. In 1999, several girls were sexually, physically, and mentally abused by Wackenhut employees at the Coke
County Facility, including a man with prior conviction for sexual abuse of a child. There was a ... jails to avoid conflicts of interest. Several speakers who followed me echoed this
view. Finally, the Geo Group said in a corporate filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year that mounting debt burdens might force the company to divert
...
24 Jul 11:18 am
... under Section 8(3)12 of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act due to a below-the-knee amputation. Case name: Kindred v. Wackenhut Corp.,
17 ILWCLB 113 (Ill.W.C.Comm.2009). Kindred worked for the employer as a security guard. He ... He also had a 25 year history of diabetes and had a kidney transplant. His job for the
employer involved monitoring doors at the corporate office of an insurance company. At the beginning of his shift on March 27, 2002, he stepped out of his vehicle and slipped on
ice, ...
28 Aug 9:23 pm
... . A Texas court, earlier this year, upheld $42.5 million in punitive damages against a private prison GEO Group Inc., formerly named Wackenhut, a multinational corrections corporation for the "horrific and gruesome death" of inmate Gregorio De La
Rosa Jr. in 2001. The award is among the largest punitive damages ordered against a private prison company. De La Rosa was beaten to death by two other inmates using ...
14 Sep 12:49 am
... 9 in DC District Court, James Gordon, a former executive at the security firm ArmorGroup North America, has sued the company, its parent corporation, and Wackenhut Services, Inc. (a sister company) for adverse employment actions he allegedly suffered
after complaining internally and to the Department of State concerning ArmorGroup's performance of contracts for security services at the US Embassy in Kabul, ...
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