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18 Jan 2023, 8:10 am by Ana Popovich
The post Irwin County Detention Center Whistleblower Dawn Wooten Files New Complaint Alleging Retaliation appeared first on Whistleblower Network News. [read post]
1 Mar 2014, 4:09 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a number of private prison related items that deserve Grits readers' attention:Texas Prison Bidness: Geo's Karnes County Correctional Center found out-of-compliance for overcrowding, understaffingTexas Prison Bidness: Johnson County to foot bill for expanded LaSalle Southwest Immigration detention center? [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 7:00 am by Eunice Cho
At Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro, Louisiana, run by LaSalle, many detainees reported that they did not have soap for bathing or cleaning supplies for their cells or bathrooms — even before COVID-19. [read post]
13 Jan 2022, 6:00 am by Ana Popovich
Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report entitled “Medical Processes and Communication Protocols Need Improvement at Irwin County Detention Center. [read post]
5 Oct 2021, 10:16 am by Eunice Cho
Another federal contract with the Leavenworth Detention Center in Kansas, run by CoreCivic, is set to expire in December, and may also be in line to become another ICE detention facility. [read post]
5 Oct 2021, 10:16 am by Eunice Cho
Another federal contract with the Leavenworth Detention Center in Kansas, run by CoreCivic, is set to expire in December, and may also be in line to become another ICE detention facility. [read post]
23 Jul 2013, 11:18 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Reported KWTX TV (July 22): Management Training Corporation, the Utah-based company with which Limestone County contracted to operate the now empty 1,000-bed county owned Limestone County Detention Center, said Monday its contract with the county is still in effect, contradicting what a spokesman said last week. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 9:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
LaSalle Corrections is the for-profit company that runs the Jack Harwell Center for McLennan County. [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 7:36 am by Eunice Cho
Private prison corporations, like the GEO Group, CoreCivic, LaSalle Corrections, and the Management Training Corporation have pocketed billions from ICE detention contracts in the past two decades. [read post]
21 Jun 2018, 2:30 pm
  There have been 75 deaths since 2010, including one at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona just last week. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 10:26 am by Hanna Johnson
Many detention centers are in rural locations far from legal organizations, advocates, or other resources to help people navigate the complex system. [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 11:47 am by Tom Smith
The complaint, filed on behalf of several detained immigrants and a nurse named Dawn Wooten, details several accounts of recent “jarring medical neglect” at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, which is run by the private prison company LaSalle South Corrections and houses people incarcerated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 8:18 am by Geoff Schweller
The whistleblower complaint follows an open letter published in July, which relays whistleblower disclosures about COVID-19-related mismanagement at a LaSalle-operated ICE detention center in Louisiana. [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 1:11 pm by luiza
  These background realities make Dawn Wooten’s decision to expose the practices at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) all the more remarkable. [read post]
21 May 2012, 4:36 pm by ebcarpenter
LaSalle Corrections owns and manages the Jackson Parish Correctional Center near Jonesboro, but it needs the sheriff as much as the sheriff needs it: Only government entities can receive state inmates. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 4:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
  Reported the Waco Tribune-Herald (Nov. 13): Three correctional officers at the Jack Harwell Detention Center were arrested Thursday after allegedly changing documents to make it appear they conducted headcounts following the investigation of a suicide that occurred in the jail.Michael Crittenden, 24; Milton Walker, 33; and Christopher Simpson, 24, were each arrested on a charge of tampering with government documents,… [read post]
21 May 2012, 7:53 am by ebcarpenter
Fred Schoonover, deputy warden of the 522-bed Tensas Parish Detention Center in northeast Louisiana, says he does not view inmates as a “commodity. [read post]