Identifying Solutions to Research Issues in Comparative Recidivism Analyses Between Private and Public State Prisons
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In the Circuit Court for the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi
Case: 25CI1:17-cv-00084-WAG Document #: 12 Filed: 03/13/2017 Page 1 of 11 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI JIM HOOD, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF PLAINTIFF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, ex rel. THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI v. CIVIL ACTION NO. 17-84 MANAGEMENT & TRAINING DEFENDANTS CORPORATION; CHRISTOPHER B. EPPS; CECIL MCCRORY and DEFENDANTS DOES 1 through 5 ______________________________________________________________________________ MANAGEMENT & TRAINING CORPORATION'S MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO DISMISS ______________________________________________________________________________ Defendant Management & Training Corporation ("MTC") submits this memorandum in support of its Motion to Dismiss. As set forth below, multiple counts against MTC should be dismissed pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) of the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure. I. INTRODUCTION On February 8, 2017, the State of Mississippi initiated the present action against Defendants MTC, Christopher Epps, and Cecil McCrory. In the Complaint, the State makes serious and unfounded allegations against MTC. Specifically, the State alleges that MTC participated in a scheme with Epps and McCrory to defraud the State and obtain contracts to operate correctional facilities in Mississippi through bribery and fraud. MTC adamantly denies the State's allegations and intends to prove through the course of this action that it did not engage in any wrongdoing when entering into contracts with the Mississippi Department of Corrections and local correctional facility authorities. However, for purposes of this Motion to Dismiss, MTC must assume that the allegations against it are true (which they are not), and MTC will Case: 25CI1:17-cv-00084-WAG Document #: 12 Filed: 03/13/2017 Page 2 of 11 establish below that many of the State's claims are subject to dismissal pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) of the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure. -
The Effect of Prison Privatization on US Incarceration Rates And
Profits Before People: The Effect of Prison Privatization on U.S. Incarceration Rates and Recidivism By Vardui Kirakossyan A Senior Honors Thesis Submitted to the Department of Political Science University of California, San Diego March 30 2015 Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor, Professor Peter Galderisi, for his incredible assistance and guidance throughout these two quarters. Without his insight and expertise, this paper would not have been made possible. I would also like to thank the UCSD Staff, including Professor Peter Smith and Tom K. Wong, for ensuring all participants remained on track and for answering our endless questions. My thanks to the statisticians at the Bureau of Justice Statistics who took the time to reply to every single one of my emails and provide information when I had difficulty obtaining them. A special thanks to Annelise Skylar, the UCSD librarian, for her ability to accommodate my last minute requests. I would finally like to thank my friends and family for their continuous support and encouragement these past months. In loving memory of Bella Kirakossyan Table of Contents Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Prison System and Incarceration Rates 5-8 1.1 Literature Review- Overview 8-11 1.2 Design of Research 11 Chapter 2: Incentive of Private Prisons 2.1 Requirements of Private Contracts 12-17 2.2 Political Gimmicks: Follow the Money 17-21 2.3 Past Cases of Profit Motives 21-24 2.4 Salaries of Executives 24-26 Chapter 3: Private Prison Conditions and Recidivism 3.1 Comparative Analysis: Minnesota 27-31 3.2 Reported Issues 31-36 3.3 Incentive to Recidivate 36-37 Chapter 4: Results: 4.1 Thesis and Design Redefined 38-43 4.2 Research Moving Forward 44-45 Chapter 5: Conclusion 45-47 References 48-49 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION America: the land of the free, home of the brave, and the nation with the highest rate of incarceration. -
Prison Legal News, October 2017
Prison Legal News PUBLISHED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER VOL. 28 No. 10 October 2017 ISSN 1075-7678 Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights No-show Cops and Dysfunctional Courts Keep Cook County Jail Prisoners Waiting Years for a Trial Chicago police missed more than 11,000 court dates since 2010, causing months or years of unnecessary delays for prisoners awaiting trial. by Spencer Woodman, Chicago Reader une 25, 2012, was a terrible day for night, Robinson repaired to his girlfriend’s Jail. After entering a guilty plea, he says, JJermaine Robinson. Overall, life was good house on Rhodes Avenue to hang out with he spent the rest of his teens downstate in – the 21-year-old Washington Park resident friends and to see his one-year-old daugh- the Vienna Correctional Center. In 2011, had been studying music management at ter, he says. But just after midnight, he says, Robinson says, he spent another several Columbia College and was a few weeks several Chicago police officers rammed months in prison after being caught with a into a job working as a janitor at a nearby down the side door of the house and burst small amount of marijuana. Boys & Girls Club. But his 13-year-old into the living room. But upon his release later that year, neighbor had been killed by random gunfire Police would later say that they had Robinson says he was striving toward a dif- the previous day, and Robinson spent the spotted Robinson dashing from the front ferent path. He’d taken two courses in music evening at an emotional memorial service. -
Apples-To-Fish: Public and Private Prison Cost Comparisons Alex Friedmann Human Rights Defense Center
Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume 42 Number 2 Prison Privatization: Impacts on Urban Article 4 Communities April 2016 Apples-To-Fish: Public and Private Prison Cost Comparisons Alex Friedmann Human Rights Defense Center Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Race Commons, and the Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons Recommended Citation Alex Friedmann, Apples-To-Fish: Public and Private Prison Cost Comparisons, 42 Fordham Urb. L.J. 503 (2014). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol42/iss2/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Urban Law Journal by an authorized editor of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. APPLES-TO-FISH: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PRISON COST COMPARISONS Alex Friedmann* Introduction ............................................................................................. 504 I. Background ....................................................................................... 505 A. Studies with Favorable Findings ......................................... 506 B. Equivocal and Adverse Research Results ......................... 507 II. Difficulties in Public-Private Comparisons .................................. 509 III. Cost-Shifting Factors .................................................................... -
Fordham Law Journal Report on Private Prison Cost Savings/Shifting
APPLES‐TO‐FISH: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PRISON COST COMPARISONS Alex Friedmann* Introductio n ..................................................................................................................... 2 I. Background................................................................................................................ 3 A. Studies with Favorable Findings ....................................................... 4 B. Equivocal and Adverse Research Results ...................................... 5 II. Diffic u lties in Public‐Private Comparisons ................................................. 7 III. Cost ‐S hifting Factors.........................................................................................11 A. Prisoner Population Differences......................................................15 B. Security Level Limitations..................................................................19 C. Medical Cost‐Shifting............................................................................21 1. HIV, HCV, and Other Specified Medical Conditions...........22 2. Caps on Medical Costs...................................................................24 3. Prisoner Eligibility Criteria.........................................................26 4. Combining Medical Cost‐Shifting Factors.............................28 D. Transportation Costs............................................................................29 E. Prisoner Labor Costs ............................................................................31 F. Administrative -
Debate on Sessions Nomination Explodes
www.mississippilink.com VOL. 23, NO. 17 FEBRUARY 16 - 22, 2017 50¢ N.Y. Mets star Granderson stressed education at JSU COFO Fences panel discussion By Stephanie R. Jones son State University baseball degree,” said Granderson, a League Baseball at the Fannie Contributing Writer players and others that his big- graduate of the University of Il- Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO, Curtis Granderson made it gest accomplishment was getting linois at Chicago. where the crowd spilled out of to “the show,” playing Major a college education. Granderson spoke Thursday the auditorium. He was joined by League Baseball. Yet the New “The number one thing I’m at the panel discussion Fences: MLB player Curtis Granderson and the JSU baseball team York Mets outfielder told Jack- proud of is getting my college African Americans in Major COFO Continued on page 3 Debate on Sessions R & B 2017 festival unveils partial nomination explodes over roster of artists Coretta Scott King letter King Sessions By Jackie Hampton By Lauren Victoria Burke iting senators from ‘Impugn- date and frighten elderly black of the audience. Thunderous ap- NNPA Newswire Contributor Publisher LACK ing’ other senators – known as voters. For this reprehensible plause and screams were heard The United States Senate B “rule 19.” conduct he should not be re- The 2017 Jackson Rhythm and throughout the theater room of debate over Attorney General Warren was then ordered to warded with a federal judge- Blues Festival is set to celebrate the complex as the names were nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (D- stop reading and take her seat ship.” Jackson’s culture and rich musical unveiled. -
Criminal Justice and Corrections | 1
Reason Foundation May 2015 By Lauren Galik and Leonard Gilroy Contents: A. 2014–15 Corrections Privatization Overview B. Federal Criminal Justice Reform Update C. State and Local Corrections Privatization Update D. State and Local Correctional Health Care Privatization Update E. ANALYSIS: Reforming California’s Three Strikes Law F. ANALYSIS: Reforming Florida’s Harsh Sentencing Laws and Gain-Time Policies Endnotes Annual Privatization Report 2015: Criminal Justice and Corrections | 1 A. 2014–15 Corrections Privatization Overview by Leonard Gilroy According to the most recent data compiled by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2013 marked a break from three consecutive years of overall decline in the total U.S. prison population, with a slight uptick in the federal and state prison population relative to the previous year.1 The combined federal and state prison population increased to 1,574,741 at the end of 2013, up 0.28% from 1,570,397 in 2012. The rise was largely due to an increase in the total state prison population of over 6,200 since 2012, a 0.5% increase. The federal prison population fell slightly over the same time period by over 1,900 prisoners, a 0.9% decrease, marking the first decline in the federal prison population in over three decades. Overall, there was a net increase in the total U.S. prison population of over 4,200 between the end of 2012 and the end of 2013. Over that same period, the total U.S. prison population housed in privately operated prisons decreased by 2.9%, from 146,120 in 2012 to 141,921 in 2013. -
Abolishing Private Prisons: a Constitutional and Moral Imperative
CRAIG-CUMMINGS (DO NOT DELETE) 4/29/20 11:21 AM ABOLISHING PRIVATE PRISONS: A CONSTITUTIONAL AND MORAL IMPERATIVE Robert Craig* and andré douglas pond cummings+ I. INTRODUCTION President Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” in 1971.1 President Ronald Reagan federalized and militarized this “war” in the * Associate Director, Abolish Private Prisons. J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law. I want to thank Professor dré cummings for his expertise and kindness writing this article with me. Additionally, everybody at Abolish Private Prisons, including the Board of Directors and Executive Director John Dacey, has contributed crucial insight—of course, none of this work would be possible without the generous donors who support the organization. My partner Erin Duncan-O’Neill and son Connor helped weather this unique time together and made it possible to find enjoyment in our near-isolation. The University of Baltimore Law Review shepherded this work with care, and any remaining issues are the authors’ fault. + Professor of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law; J.D., Howard University School of Law. I am grateful to my co-author Robert Craig for partnering expertly with me on this article and for his excellent work as Associate Director of Abolish Private Prisons, an Arizona 501(c)(3) created to combat private for-profit incarceration. I am appreciative to John Dacey the Executive Director of Abolish Private Prisons for his tireless work in exposing and challenging the private prison regime. I am grateful to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. -
Abolishing Private Prisons: a Constitutional and Moral Imperative
University of Baltimore Law Review Volume 49 Issue 3 Article 2 2020 Abolishing Private Prisons: A Constitutional and Moral Imperative Robert Craig Abolish Private Prisons, [email protected] andre douglas pond cummings University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/ublr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Craig, Robert and cummings, andre douglas pond (2020) "Abolishing Private Prisons: A Constitutional and Moral Imperative," University of Baltimore Law Review: Vol. 49 : Iss. 3 , Article 2. Available at: https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/ublr/vol49/iss3/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Baltimore Law Review by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ABOLISHING PRIVATE PRISONS: A CONSTITUTIONAL AND MORAL IMPERATIVE Robert Craig* and andré douglas pond cummings+ I. INTRODUCTION President Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” in 1971.1 President Ronald Reagan federalized and militarized this “war” in the * Associate Director, Abolish Private Prisons. J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law. I want to thank Professor dré cummings for his expertise and kindness writing this article with me. Additionally, everybody at Abolish Private Prisons, including the Board of Directors and Executive Director John Dacey, has contributed crucial insight—of course, none of this work would be possible without the generous donors who support the organization.