Today, I want to look at a case that just went to federal court, became a class action case, against private prisons, about slavery. Joining me to kind of explain what’s going on there is Glen Ford. He’s the executive editor of the Black Agenda Report, and he is also the editor of the Big Lie.
This past summer, President Obama’s Department of Justice was directed to stop using private prisons. Besides having notoriously inhumane conditions, the private prison industry doesn’t really save taxpayers money—it just generates money for people who are in bed with private prisons. Trump and his racist Attorney General Jeff Sessions have already made moves to reverse course.
On Monday, a U.S. District Court began hearing arguments in a lawsuit over the allegedly inadequate mental health care provided to inmates of the Alabama Department of Corrections. The case is part of a larger suit, Braggs, et al. …
A new lawsuit by the New York Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services of Central New York is alleging that the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office has been locking up juveniles in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day, and sexually harassing and abusing the children, some of whom are mentally ill. “Any time you send a child to solitary confinement, you risk damaging them permanently,” …
The motion for class certification, which argues that the failure to provide adequate care is a systemic issue affecting all prisoners, was filed last night. It comes as the lawsuit is set to go to trial Nov. 7. The lawsuit describes how the medical and mental health needs of prisoners are routinely ignored in a prison system where dangerous – even life-threatening – conditions are the norm.
A shareholder class action lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Corrections Corporation of America, a private prison company that was the subject of a recent Mother Jones investigation. Last week, the Department of Justice announced it would work to end its private prison contracts. The shareholders allege that CCA and its executive officers made false or misleading statements that put the …
Corrections Corporation, founded in Nashville Tennessee, owns, operates and manages private correctional and detention facilities in the United States. The company also provides inmate residential and prisoner transportation services for governmental agencies. The Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding Corrections …
Illinois’ top corrections official says an overhaul has begun of prison mental health programs following a settlement in a class-action lawsuit. Illinois Department of Corrections Director John Baldwin tells The (Bloomington) Pantagraph (http://bit.ly/1XK6Fgi) he wants the state to be a national model. Baldwin says Gov.
NEW YORK (AP) — Sexual abuse and harassment of women in New York State prisons persists and flourishes because the state’s “zero tolerance” policy is a sham, a lawsuit says. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court asks a judge to force the state to prevent women from being sexually abused by male guards. The lawsuit seeking class action status represents six women on behalf of an …