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While the U.S. Department of Justice said extreme measures are needed to correct the problems the department identified in its report, MDOC officials dispute the allegations made in the report.
In the late 20th century, Mississippi began to make contracts with private prison management companies to build and operate prisons. It eventually held contracts for six for-profit prisons: Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility, for inmates under 18 who had been convicted as adults; East Mississippi Correctional Facility, devoted to the treatment of state prisoners with mental illness ...
Previously MDOC contracted prisoners to local and county governments, in essence paying a subsidy to the jurisdictions to manage the prisoners. The prisoners, often classified as trusties, would get reductions in their sentences in exchange for doing work. On April 30, 2015 MDOC stated that it would end this program and save $3.2 million per year.
Neither MDOC nor the Michigan Corrections Organization, which represents nearly 7,000 corrections personnel in the state, would make anyone available for an interview. But after dozens of inquiries, I found a 54-year-old former correctional officer named Thomas Burke, who worked for MDOC for 25 years and retired in 2010, who was willing to talk.
MDOC awarded the contract at EMCF and Walnut Grove to Management and Training Corporation (MTC) of Utah, but the complaints continued. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In May 2013, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class action suit against the state of Mississippi and operators of EMCF on behalf of its prisoners because of the abuses and the failure ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton plans to file criminal complaints against the House legislators who led his impeachment, alleging they doxxed him when they released documents that included his ...
Two Texas women have filed federal complaints against hospitals that reportedly denied them lifesaving treatments for ectopic pregnancies, causing them both to lose one of their fallopian tubes.
Chris Epps resigned as Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) in early November 2014. The next day he was indicted by the US Attorney of the Southern District of Mississippi, together with consultant and former state legislator Cecil McCrory, on 49 counts in a corruption scheme related to contracts that Epps steered to particular companies.