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☆ Hidden investors took over Corizon Health, a leading prison healthcare company. Then they deployed the Texas Two-Step.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Nicole Einbinder | Dakin Campbell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +63 min

The nurse practitioner on duty that day was employed by Corizon Health, Inc., one of the nation's largest private prison healthcare providers. Under federal law, a bankruptcy judge may respond to evidence of self-dealing or perjury by appointing a trustee to take control of the bankrupt company, bankruptcy experts told Insider. Just six months before the Garcia family was scheduled to have their day in court, Corizon filed for bankruptcy. "The Corizon bankruptcy is presently in a court ordered mediation, and we are seeking a global resolution for all the parties involved." Goldberger's attorney, Joseph Haspel, responded to queries with a statement saying that "Mr. Goldberger is a passive investor" in Corizon, Tehum, YesCare, Perigrove, and Perigrove 1018.

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☆ Inside a ‘Nightmare’ Lockdown at a Wisconsin Prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Mario Koran | Jamie Kelter Davis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prisoners locked in their cells for days on end report walls speckled with feces and blood. Birds have moved in, leaving droppings on the food trays and ice bags handed out to keep inmates cool. Blocked from visiting the law library, prisoners say they have missed court deadlines and jeopardized appeals. One thousand inmates incarcerated at Waupun Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison in southeast Wisconsin, have been confined mostly to their cells for more than four months, ever since prison officials locked down the facility and halted many programs and services. The state’s Department of Corrections has offered little explanation about the lockdown or why it has lasted so long.

Organizations: Waupun Correctional, The New York Times, state’s Department of Corrections Locations: Wisconsin, Waupun

☆ A Proud Boy who was supposed to be sentenced for his role in the Capitol riot is now missing, FBI says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Associated Press | Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Authorities say a Proud Boy found guilty for his role in the Capitol riot has disappeared. Worrell was on house arrest since a judge ruled that his rights were violated in prison. Over 1,000 people have been charged in connection to the Capitol riot. The US attorney's office for Washington, DC, encouraged the public to share any information about his whereabouts. Phone numbers listed for Worrell and the woman named as his custodian during his house arrest were not functional.

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☆ Rikers Watchdog Sues New York City Over Lack of Transparency
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Jonah E. Bromwich | More About Jonah E. Bromwich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A New York City agency responsible for protecting the rights of incarcerated people took steps to reassert its authority on Wednesday, suing the Department of Correction and the city over a lack of transparency as the majority of its members called for an outside authority to take control of the jails. The agency, the Board of Correction, filed its suit in Bronx State Supreme Court, seeking to wrest back unfettered access to surveillance video from the jails. The jails commissioner, Louis A. Molina, stopped the board from accessing the footage, which allows it to monitor jail conditions at any given moment, earlier this year. “We’ve been forced to take the unprecedented step of entering into litigation against the city in order to ensure that we, and our staff, have access to the tools we need to do our jobs,” said one of the board members, Rachael Bedard, in a statement. A spokesman for the Department of Correction did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.

Persons: Louis A, Molina, “ We’ve, ”, Rachael Bedard Organizations: of Correction, Bronx, Supreme Court, Department of Correction Locations: York City

In blistering 100-degree heat one recent afternoon at Valley State Prison in California’s Central Valley, inmates crowded around small windows in a prison yard to pick up their daily doses of buprenorphine, an opioid addiction medication. At one window, Quennie Uy, a nurse, scanned inmate identification cards, then retrieved strips of the medication, slipping them through a sliding panel below the window. The daily ritual is part of a sprawling health experiment in California that aims to unwind the often lasting damage of opioid use before, during and after incarceration. The state’s efforts also reflect the beginnings of a potential transformation in the nation’s approach to treating addiction in a part of American society that is often neglected. “There’s this better understanding that if we’re going to treat the opioid overdose crisis, one of the high-target populations to treat is people in jails and prisons.”

Persons: ”, Justin Berk Organizations: Brown University, Rhode Island’s Department of Corrections, “ Locations: California’s Central Valley, California

☆ Lindsay Shiver, charged with conspiring to kill husband in the Bahamas, granted $100,000 bail
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Hande Atay Alam | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Lindsay Shiver, 36, of Thomasville, Georgia, is accused of unsuccessfully conspiring with two Bahamas natives to kill her husband, Robert Shiver, on July 16 while on the Abaco Islands. Bail for Lindsay Shiver was set at $100,000, her defense attorney, Ian Cargill, said. Lindsay Shiver and two suspected co-conspirators have been in custody at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services since their arrest last week. Lindsay and Robert Shiver both attended Auburn University and live in Thomasville, according to social media posts. Lindsay Shiver’s filing says she “incurred debt beyond her means to pay” and asks that Robert Shiver be made to pay.

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☆ ‘Preppy Killer’ Robert Chambers is released again from prison after serving years for unrelated drug crimes
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Celina Tebor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Robert Chambers, known as the “Preppy Killer” for murdering a teenager in Central Park in 1986, was released again this week from prison after serving time for unrelated drug crimes. Chambers served a 15-year sentence for first-degree manslaughter and second-degree burglary beginning in 1988 and was released in 2003, according to New York State Department of Corrections records. He was imprisoned again in 2008 on unrelated charges of first-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and second-degree assault, according to Department of Corrections records. After serving 15 years at New York’s Shawangunk Correctional Facility, Chambers was released on parole Tuesday. Chambers will be under post-release supervision until July 2028, Department of Corrections records say.

Persons: Robert Chambers, Chambers, Jennifer Levin, Levin Organizations: CNN, New York State Department of Corrections, of Corrections Locations: Central Park

☆ A sci-fi magazine editor says his team are sent so many 'consistently bad' AI-generated articles that their workload has almost doubled
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A magazine editor told CNN his team struggled to review the huge volume of articles generated by AI. Employees at a small sci-fi and fantasy publication say new AI-powered tools are making their jobs harder. He said his team's workloads had almost doubled and they'd struggled to review a stream of "consistently bad" AI-generated content. However, AI-powered tools come with various issues, including a tendency to invent or "hallucinate" facts. Technology publication CNET was forced to issue a string of corrections on several articles after errors were discovered in its AI-generated articles.

Persons: Neil Clarke, workloads, they'd, Clarke Organizations: CNN, Employees, Technology, CNET

☆ Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Hannah Beckler | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +64 min

But prison patrol dogs aren't deployed for chases; they are used inside the prison walls. Tri-State Canines training facility, Warren, OhioVirginia Department of Corrections patrol dogs are typically Belgian Malinois, Czech shepherds, or German shepherds. Department patrol dogs are trained to bite once and hold to minimize flesh tears and lacerations. Patrol dog kennels, Virginia Department of CorrectionsThe patrol dog kennels are even smaller, at 6 feet by 10. A veterinary technician who treated patrol dogs at a clinic in Lebanon, Virginia, said she was told not to touch the patrol dogs in her care without their handler present.

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July 21 (Reuters) - Alabama executed a man early on Friday for beating an elderly woman to death two decades ago, the state's first execution since Governor Kay Ivey lifted a suspension on capital punishment in February following a review. Barber argued to the United States Court of Appeals that his execution should be halted because he is at substantial risk of serious harm and "torture" under current protocols. Legal and ethical questions have swirled around capital punishment in the United States after several lethal injections have been botched in recent years. The number of executions in the United States has drastically fallen since 1999, when a record 98 executions were carried out. Capital punishment was reinstated in the United States in 1976.

Persons: Kay Ivey, James Barber, William Holman, Barber, Dorothy Epps, Ivey, Brendan O'Brien, Daniel Trotta, Gursimran Kaur, Bharat Govind Gautam, Sandra Maler, Andrew Heavens Organizations: William, William Holman Correctional, U.S, Supreme, Republican, Department of Corrections, United States, of Appeals, Thomson Locations: Alabama, . U.S, Atmore , Alabama, Harvest , Alabama, United States, Chicago

☆ Alabama to put inmate to death, state's first execution since suspension
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Brendan O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Barber argued to the United States Court of Appeals that his execution should be halted because he is at substantial risk of serious harm and "torture" under current protocols. Legal and ethical questions have swirled around capital punishment in the United States after several lethal injections have been botched in recent years. The number of executions in the United States has drastically fallen since 1999, when a record 98 executions were carried out. Capital punishment was reinstated in the United States in 1976. Over the last five years, a total of 78 death row inmates have been executed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Persons: Kay Ivey, James Barber, William Holman, Dorothy Epps, Ivey, Barber, Brendan O'Brien, Sandra Maler Organizations: William, William Holman Correctional, Republican, Department of Corrections, United States, of Appeals, Thomson Locations: Alabama, Atmore , Alabama, Harvest , Alabama, United States, Chicago

On Tuesday, she ordered the city to inform the U.S. attorney’s office and others how it planned to fix some of the pressing issues within the jails. Shortly after the judge’s order was made public, Mayor Adams delivered a strenuous defense of his management of the jails. “I am the best person in this administration to finally turn around the Department of Correction,” the mayor said during a news conference. Mr. Adams asked what had changed since then to suggest that the city should be stripped of its authority. In a series of recent reports, the first of them issued in May, Mr. Martin criticized Mr. Adams and his correction commissioner, Louis A. Molina, for hiding episodes of violence and negligence.

Persons: Swain’s, Mayor Adams, Adams, Williams, Steve J, Martin, Mr, Louis A, Molina Organizations: of Correction, Mr Locations: U.S, Rikers

☆ Former Manson Family Member Leslie Van Houten Is Released on Parole
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Derrick Bryson Taylor | More About Derrick Bryson Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Leslie Van Houten, a former Charles Manson follower who played a role in the gruesome double murder of a Los Angeles couple in the summer of 1969, was released on parole on Tuesday after serving more than half a century in prison, according to her lawyer. Ms. Van Houten’s lawyer, Nancy Tetreault, said she was taken early Tuesday morning to transitional housing at an undisclosed location. “She’s going to have to learn to live in the world after 53 years in prison,” Ms. Tetreault said in an interview. “So that’s going to take some time.”The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed her release to The Associated Press. Mr. Newsom had reversed Ms. Van Houten’s parole grant three times since taking office, most recently in March 2022.

Persons: Leslie Van Houten, Charles Manson, Van Houten’s, Nancy Tetreault, “ She’s, ” Ms, Tetreault, Gavin Newsom, Newsom Organizations: Los, California Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, Associated Press, California Gov Locations: Los Angeles

CNN —Leslie Van Houten, a former Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer, was released from a California prison on Tuesday, a prison spokesperson told CNN. Van Houten was released to parole supervision, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesperson Mary Xjimenez said. Van Houten will have a three-year maximum parole term with a parole discharge review occurring after one year, Xjimenez said. In 1994, Van Houten described her part in the killings in a prison interview with CNN’s Larry King. “I went in and Mrs. LaBianca was laying on the floor and I stabbed her,” said Van Houten, who was 19 at the time of the murders.

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A federal monitor overseeing New York City’s violent and dangerous jails asked a judge on Monday to consider holding the Department of Correction and its commissioner in contempt for disobeying court orders, opening the possibility that officials could be punished for failing to improve conditions. Conditions on Rikers Island have only worsened since the Correction Department developed an improvement plan a year ago, Mr. Martin wrote. Doors are still not properly secured, correction officers continue to abandon posts and detainees often gather in high-security areas, he said. During routine searches, officers miss weapons, which have later been used in violent episodes, Mr. Martin said. Last year, 19 people died in city jails or at hospitals soon after release — the deadliest year in nearly a decade.

Persons: Steve J, Martin Organizations: York, of Correction, Correction Department Locations: Manhattan, Rikers

☆ House Republicans want political payback for COVID vaccine mandates for troops, but the White House is refusing to back down
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The White House signaled it will defend the fallout from the Pentagon's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The Biden administration blasted House Republicans for trying to speed the reinstatement of troops who refused the shot. More than 8,000 active-duty service members were kicked out for refusing to get vaccinated. Republicans have repeatedly pushed for the reinstatement of service members that were discharged as a result of defying the mandate. These types of statements are how the White House influences ongoing legislative fights.

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☆ Rikers Monitor Expected to Take Aim at City Jails Chief in Hearing
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Jonah E. Bromwich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But violence and chaos have continued at Rikers Island and, this year, Mr. Molina and New York City’s mayor Eric Adams have limited public information about conditions inside. They have stopped informing news outlets when deaths occur and have made it difficult for a city watchdog to access video and other information from Rikers Island. In April 2022, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan raised the prospect of a federal takeover of Rikers Island, through an official known as a receiver. If Mr. Martin has lost confidence in Mr. Molina, it could signal a shift in the attitude of the federal judge overseeing his work. Mr. Martin’s latest report, filed Monday, suggests that his goal is more modest: To get timely, accurate information about deaths and other serious incidents on Rikers Island.

Persons: Mr, Molina, Eric Adams, Molina’s, Martin, Laura T, Swain, Judge Swain, Martin’s Locations: Rikers, Molina and New York, U.S, Manhattan, New York City

☆ Upstart News Site Has Youth on Its Side, and Albany in Its Sights
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Out of these and other revelations came the notion for New York Focus, a nonprofit news site. But it would distinguish itself by concentrating on the way that power is exercised in Albany and how it filters down and affects almost everything. The order would have also prevented Mr. Lennon and writers like him from getting paid. A day after the New York Focus piece appeared, the corrections department rescinded the directive. In November New York Focus, with the Intercept as a partner, published the results of a yearlong investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County.

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☆ N.Y.C. Jails Chief Is Hiding Dysfunction at Rikers, Federal Monitor Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Hurubie Meko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A year and a half into Louis A. Molina’s tenure as correction commissioner, the federal monitor overseeing the Rikers Island jail complex on Thursday took direct aim at his leadership, saying that the violence there remains unabated and that officials are hiding information about it. “The commitment to effective collaboration, as evidenced by the department’s recent performance, has deteriorated,” the monitor, Steve J. Martin, wrote in a report filed in federal district court. “The department’s approach to reform has recently become characterized by inaccuracies and a lack of transparency.”“These problems have grave consequences for the prospect of reform and eliminating the imminent risk of harm faced by incarcerated individuals and staff,” he added. A request for comment from the Department of Correction was not immediately answered. The report, the second that the monitor has filed in recent weeks, is the latest in a series of reports, court filings and statements in which those who oversee the jail and groups with vested interests in its improvement have sounded increasingly urgent alarms about the complex.

Persons: Louis A, Steve J, Martin, ” Organizations: Department of Correction

☆ 30 stocks with 'strong buy' ratings from Wall Street's top analysts, according to a fintech company that uses AI to track and analyze big data
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Goldman Sachs called 2023 a stock-picker's environment. Each one includes the top analyst's percentage-upside forecast. Below is a list of the 30 stocks that top analysts are most frequently dubbing with "strong buy" ratings. The lineup was compiled by TipRanks, a fintech company that uses artificial intelligence to analyze data. Each slide includes the top analyst's percentage-upside forecast.

Ron DeSantis to disqualify the judge overseeing the company's lawsuit accusing the governor and his allies of political retaliation. Attorneys for DeSantis had argued that Judge Mark Walker should recuse himself from the lawsuit over his comments in two separate cases that referenced the clash between the governor and the entertainment giant. Disney's lawsuit alleges that DeSantis "orchestrated at every step" a campaign to punish the company for speaking out against a Florida bill limiting classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity. The effort to remove Walker as the judge in Disney's civil case in U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, Florida, came days before DeSantis launched his 2024 presidential campaign. Walker was nominated to serve as judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama.

☆ Opinion | The Wrong Way to Cut New York City’s Budget
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Mara Gay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a decade-long spending spree and a devastating pandemic, New York City is now staring at three years of huge budget deficits, beginning with at least $4.2 billion in the year that starts in July of next year. Mayor Eric Adams, rightly, is trying to wring some savings from the city’s $106 billion budget. But rather than cut, New York City should increase its outreach and pay providers what they are owed. Frank Dwyer, a spokesman for the Department of Correction, said in a statement that the agency would provide the social services previously performed by contractors. But that could be difficult at the city’s jail complexes, which continue to suffer from violence and inmate deaths.

[1/2] Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the New York City truck attack is seen in this handout photo released November 1, 2017. Saipov used a Home Depot rental truck to mow down people on a path along the Hudson River on Manhattan's West Side, according to prosecutors. He had hoped to the attack would help him gain membership in Islamic State, or ISIS, they said. Most of the people scheduled to speak at the hearing are traveling from Argentina and Belgium. Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York and Brendan O'Brien in Chicago; Editing by Will DunhamOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Fact Check-New York prison barge not being transported to Guam or ‘Gitmo’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A New York City prison barge is not being moved to Guam or the Guantanamo Bay detention center known as “Gitmo,” according to officials in the New York City Department of Corrections and the U.S. Southern Command. The base includes a military prison, known colloquially as Gitmo. A New York City Department of Corrections spokesperson also said in an email that the photograph shows the Vernon C. Bain Center located in the Bronx borough of New York City. The Vernon C. Bain Center is an 800-bed prison that houses inmates for the New York City Department of Corrections. The prison barge was set up in 1992, intended as a temporary facility to accommodate New York’s growing inmate population, the New York Times reported in 2019 (here).

☆ U.S. Supreme Court allows death row inmate's lawsuit after failed execution
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Andrew Chung | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A majority of the justices in November cleared the way for the execution of Smith, sentenced to death for his role in a 1988 murder-for-hire plot. The method in Alabama posed an "intolerable risk of torture, cruelty or substantial pain," Smith's lawsuit stated. A judge dismissed Smith's lawsuit, but on Nov. 17, the day of his scheduled execution, the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. The 11th Circuit also in a separate decision stayed his execution, but after the state appealed to the Supreme Court, the justices allowed it to proceed. Smith's case is not a challenge to the death penalty itself.

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