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The GEO Group Cashes In Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers
... $80 million facility is expected to generate approximately $28.0 million in annual revenues. Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut) is hardly a household name, they are a major player in the private corrections sector, combining a self righteous amorality ... Comment?
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Supreme Court won't allow inmate to sue prison for alleged mistreatment
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... out the federal lawsuit by inmate Richard Lee Pollard against employees of the GEO Group Inc, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp. Pollard wanted to sue for his treatment after he fell and fractured both of his elbows at the privately run ... Comment?
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Also Tuesday, the Supreme Court: Decided in an 8-1 vote to throw out a federal lawsuit by inmate Richard Lee Pollard against employees of the GEO Group, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp., over injuries he sustained while imprisoned at a privately run federal prison. Comment?
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Court won't allow private prison employees lawsuit
... to throw out the federal lawsuit by inmate Richard Lee Pollard against employees of the , formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp. Pollard wanted to sue for his treatment after he fell and fractured both of his elbows at the privately run Taft ... Comment?
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Supreme Court Bars Federal Suit Against Private Prison Employees
... Supreme Court has ruled. The inmate, Richard Lee Pollard, had claimed medical staffers and other employees of the Wackenhut Corrections Corp. had failed to deliver adequate medical care after he slipped on a cart left in a doorway. The majority ... Comment?
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Recap: Tuesday's Supreme Court Action
... throw out the federal lawsuit by inmate Richard Lee Pollard against employees of the GEO Group, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp. Pollard wanted to sue for his treatment after he fell and fractured both of his elbows at the privately run ... Comment?
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Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers
... $80 million facility is expected to generate approximately $28.0 million in annual revenues. Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut) is hardly a household name, they are a major player in the private corrections sector, combining a self righteous amorality ... Comment?
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Leasing Through the Back Door: The Private Financing of "Public" Prisons
... per annum, the two largest private prison companies, Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections Corporation), have together "earned" over $2.9 billion in profits since 2000. ... Comment?
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$2.25 Billion Purchase of Aston by Whitehaven Creates Largest...
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The $2.25 billion buyout by Whitehaven Coal of Aston Resources will create the largest independent publicly traded coal company in Rescuers prepare to enter the Xinxing coal mine to search for survivors following a gas explosion at the mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang Province November 22, 2009. Comment?
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$2.25 Billion Purchase of Aston by Whitehaven Creates Largest...
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The $2.25 billion buyout by Whitehaven Coal (ASX: WHC) of Aston Resources (ASX: AZT) will create the largest independent publicly traded coal company in Comment?
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Reality Check : Lets Look Back at Americas First Thanksgiving
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... on wallstreet based on how many heads they have incarcerated at the time. obtw, GEO Corp was formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corporation. Yes, That Wackenhut. Where did this debate first start ? On Thanksgiving in America - Remember That. As ... Comment?
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Court unlikely to allow private prison to be sued
... in federal court. The high court on Tuesday heard arguments by lawyers from the GEO Group, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Richard Lee Pollard could sue GEO officials for injuries he ... Comment?
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Court unlikely to allow private prison to be sued
The Supreme Court seemed unlikely on Tuesday to allow employees at a privately run federal prison to be sued by an inmate in federal court, despite his complaint that their neglect left him with two permanently damaged arms.Justices heard appeals from lawyers representing employees of the GEO Group, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp, who ... (more) Comment?
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... started his career in law enforcement when, as an 18-year-old, he became a corrections officer in 2001 at Wackenhut Corrections Corp.'s Central Texas Detention Facility, a 688-inmate capacity private jail that Geo Group now operates in downtown San ... Comment?
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With Prison Privatization Plan on Hold, GEO Group...
Poor GEO Group. The Boca Raton-based private prison operator, former known as Wackenhut Corrections, had planned to invest $3 million in its quest to win a contract to run most of the prisons in the southern part of Florida. Comment?
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Family of Slain FAMU Grad Wins Civil Lawsuit
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... $6 million in damages. McCants' husband Derrick McCants, also a FAMU graduate, sued the hospital's security firm Wackenhut Corp., for negligence in the death of the pregnant 37-year-old pharmacy supervisor and mother of two young children. The jury ... Comment?
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Family of slain FAMU grad wins civil lawsuit
... $6 million in damages. McCants' husband Derrick McCants, also a FAMU graduate, sued the hospital's security firm Wackenhut Corp., for negligence in the death of the pregnant 37-year-old pharmacy supervisor and mother of two young children. The jury ... Comment?
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Jury sides with family of killed Shands pharmacist
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... attorney Dawn Whitehurst said. "Obviously it cannot bring Shannon back though." The case heavily centered around Wackenhut Corp.'s role at Shands as well as a series of annual security surveys the company performed at the facility. None of the ... Comment?
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