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Federal Corrections Reports
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April 10, 2008
GEO Group gets go-ahead on expansion plans in Aurora, Colorado
"Detention is an inhumane way to deal with a broken immigration system," said Miriam Pena, director of growth for the Colorado Progressive Coalition. "Detention is not cost effective … GEO is expecting to earn $30 million."
The Rev. Patrick Demmer of the Graham Memorial Community Church of God and Christ in Denver also addressed the crowd of protesters, questioning the underlying motives of the GEO Group corporation.
"There is something morally wrong about the privatization of prisons and detention centers … Courts and prisons cannot and should not be produced sufficiently by the private sector," Demmer said. "The very reputation of this company is very suspect … How did Aurora get involved with such a company in the first place?"…
LINK - AuroraSentinel.com (Aurora, Colorado)
March 4, 2008
Prison Privatization in America: The Lost Children
Web Editor's Note: This is a long read but well-worth the effort. However you might feel about immigration laws and immigrant detention centers, it becomes clear by reading this story that CCA's continued prison for-profit campaign and management track-record paints an even worse picture of corrections in the public eye and increases distaste for correctional officers as a whole.
Private companies began making inroads into the detention business in the nineteen-eighties, when the idea was in vogue that almost any private operation was inherently more efficient than a government one. The largest firm, Corrections Corporation of America, or C.C.A., was founded in 1983. But poor management and a series of well-publicized troubles — including riots at and escapes from prisons run by C.C.A. — dampened the initial excitement. In the nineties, C.C.A.'s bid to take over the entire prison system of Tennessee, where the company is based, failed; state legislators had grown skeptical. By the end of 2000, C.C.A.'s stock had hit an all-time low. When immigration detention started its precipitate climb following 9/11, private prison companies eagerly offered their empty beds, and the industry was revitalized.
One complication was that hundreds of children were among the immigrant detainees…
LINK - NewAmerica.net
December 27, 2007
Documentary condemns Nashville’s Corrections Corporation of America for role in “largest trend of fa
In an era of family-dividing deportations, the immigration arm of the U.S. government has arranged for Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America ("CCA") to house immigrant families together, but where and how the families are placed has been framed by some as a moral and human rights crisis…
LINK - HispanicNashville.com
November 16, 2007
CCPOA Update on “Fair Share” Status
This is an update on the recent action the Department of Personnel took toward "Fair Share" status.
As of November 1, 2007, there is no Fair Share category. Former Fair Share participants have been removed from:
- CCPOA Primary Dental
- Western Dental
- CCPOA Vision (with $120 frame allowance and 2nd pair)
- $20,000 Life insurance
- $5,000 Accidental Death
- Basic CCPOA Legal Defense Fund
- Basic Family Legal Plan (Caldwell USA)
If you have a BU6 non-member who would like to regain these benefits, he or she needs to immediately take action.
Steps to becoming a full dues paying member and reinstating CCPOA benefits with no lapse in coverage:
1. Fill out a union application. Mail a check for $159.74 (two [2] month's dues) with the union application to the CCPOA. You can download an application at member-app.pdf.
2. Go to personnel before November 30th with your union application and fill out dental form (STD 692) and vision form (STD 700) to re-enroll in the CCPOA dental and vision plans.
3. Keep a photocopy of all paperwork you turn into personnel. You will need to immediately fax all three applications to the Trust at 916-779-6355 to avoid a break in coverage.
Personnel has been instructed by the DPA to retroactively enroll newly-applying CCPOA members as of November 1, 2007, CCPOA dental and vision coverage. Those newly applying will NOT need to make retroactive payments for dental or vision as previously reported. The Trust will reinstate the applying member to 11/1/07 for dental, vision, life insurance and legal programs.
We will update you with dental and vision benefit information for non-members as soon as these benefit schedules can be determined. We do know that for those who are non-members, there is a significant loss in benefits, especially legal, life insurance and vision coverage.
For assistance with dental or vision questions or in the event of a dental emergency, please have the newly applying member call the Trust at 1-800-IN-UNIT-6.
Heidi Smith
Communications Director
CCPOA Benefit Trust Fund
Direct: (916) 779-6349
Fax: (916) 779-6357
October 15, 2007
Transfers of Inmates Hit Families
It has been months since Roger Peck has seen his son. A year ago, Peck and his wife, Millicent, twice a month were driving more than 400 miles from Grand Junction to see their son, 47-year-old Stephen Dallas Peck, at the Crowley County Correctional Facility in Olney Springs. But when Peck and 479 other inmates were relocated in December and January to the privately owned North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre, Okla., those visits ended…
LINK - GJSentinel.com
