If you think this is bad, wait until you find out what goes on in the Child Welfare System.
#maytheheavensfall
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Showing posts with label prisons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prisons. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Mildred Gaddis Has A Gerrymandering Situation Going On
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| https://www.theemgfoundation.com/ |
Mildred Gaddis has a foundation.
Mildred Gaddis has not filed her 990s since 2016, when it was formed.
Mildred gets funding from the UAW and Ford.
Mildred Gaddis is the voice of Detroit politics, where, for the right price, you, too, can be on her show.
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| Rory and the others, just saving the savages. |
Mildred has lots of friends in Wayne County politics.
Mildred Gaddis never once spoke upon the ilk of the Detroit Land Bank Authority, how people were becoming homeless, leading mothers to be incarcerated and children placed in foster care.
Nope.
But she had a foundation doing all the wonderful things on that salvific mission of salvaging the souls of the savages in her afrocentristic drumbeating chant to maintain the status quo of the heirarchy of the "Elected Ones".
I wonder if Mildred, or her foundation, got any of those precious Detroit Land Bank Authority properties.
They like to do transactions in these fake ass tax foreclosure properties because they got away with it in the Detroit Bankruptcy.
In the realm of the "Elected Ones", one is rewarded with either a fake ass LLC turnkey to start shuffling properties, or, they get a child welfare foundation to get Faith Based Funding to fix up properties, many local churches, which was intentional, because it all falls under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Detroit.
UAW meets with feds to avert racketeering takeover, oversight
I bet Rory has lots of tales to tell...
Mildred was mean to my Sweetie, and so were all her other co-conspirators, which is why I am quite sure she will be covering the #coloredrevolution, to vote, like your life depends on it, literally.
Mildred was mean to my Sweetie, and so were all her other co-conspirators, which is why I am quite sure she will be covering the #coloredrevolution, to vote, like your life depends on it, literally.
I seem to recall another child welfare fraud operation going on.
Is Detroit's Pure Heart Foundation A Strafor - Detroit Land Bank Authority Trafficking Tiny Humans Operation?
Let us just call it gerrymandering for now, for it would be too premature to call it anything else but stealin' the children, land & vote.
#maytheheavensfall
Judge Mathis honor raises funds for Detroit girls program
Many of Detroit’s prominent gathered Saturday night to honor Judge Greg Mathis and raise money for a fledgling organization that helps girls whose mothers are in prison.
The second annual Daughters of Incarcerated Mothers (DIM Project) event at The Roostertail on the riverfront honored Mathis as the 2016 Detroit Man of the Year for his “tremendous work in the city,” said Mildred Gaddis, host of the Mildred Gaddis Show on WCHB-AM 1200 and founder of Daughters of Incarcerated Mothers.
Mathis, a Detroit native whose popular television show is taped in Chicago, performs community outreach throughout Detroit, including programs at the Mathis Community Center on Greenfield.
Gaddis said proceeds from Saturday night’s fundraiser will go to the DIM Project, a self-development program for young girls.
“We’ve been organizing and the program will launch in March,” Gaddis said Sunday.
Phaedra Parks, of the “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” attended the Daughters of Incarcerated Mothers event at The Roostertail on Saturday night.
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| Bert Johnson & Jimmy Settles |
Michigan state Sen. Bert Johnson, D-Highland Park, left, and United Auto Workers Vice President Jimmy Settles at Saturday’s night’s Daughters of Incarcerated Mothers fundraiser.
Gaddis said donations to the Daughters of Incarcerated Mothers can be sent to the EMG Foundation, 615 Griswold, Suite 400, Detroit, MI 48226.
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Friday, May 1, 2020
Is Detroit's Pure Heart Foundation A Strafor - Detroit Land Bank Authority Trafficking Tiny Humans Operation?
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| 13560 E. McNichols, Detroit, Michigan 48205 |
Whether Pure Heart Foundation is the same found in the Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files, has yet to be determined, but what I do know is that this is not something someone from the hood would do.
What tipped me off was the theft of toiletries.
Why would someone steal toilet paper and soap when they could just strip the home of all the copper wiring?
You know the pipes are probably pec.
I just had a difficult time seeing someone run down the street with a stove on their back.
Then, why would the cost to clean and replace cost so much money?
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| Matrix Mother's Room |
I see Stratfor.....I also see the Archdiocese of Detroit.....and the Detroit Land Bank Authority...I see infant mortality.
I tried to pull the property paperwork, but it seems the Wayne County Treasurer Property Tax Division is down, and so is the City of Detroit Property Tax Division.
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| https://www.pureheartcares.org/ |
Burglars raid home meant to be 'safe haven' for kids of incarcerated parents
Paint was poured onto the floor during a recent burglary at a Detroit home rented by the Pure Heart Foundation. Thieves also stole appliances and toiletries for kids. The nonprofit helps children of incarcerated parents and is planning to open the home as a clubhouse.
Sherelle Hogan envisions her nonprofit’s upcoming home as a safe haven — a clubhouse where kids can do their homework, receive counseling and enjoy a meal together on Detroit’s east side.
“I was heading over there to clean up and do finishing touches before our open house,” Hogan said, "and when I got there it was kind of flipped upside down.”
She arrived at the home on East McNichols Road near Schoenherr Street on Friday morning to find the large front window shattered. Burglars had stolen the refrigerator, stove, AC unit, hot water tank, furnace, cleaning supplies and nearly 100 toiletry kits for kids. The washer and dryer unit was damaged. Purple paint had been poured onto the hardwood floors. The security system had been ripped out of the walls, Hogan said.
Since the break-in, the kids Hogan helps have been sending her texts with messages like, "Please don’t give up on us."
“Their actions could have broken some children who've already been forgotten in society,” she said of the perpetrators. “They violated those young people, and they did not deserve that. It’s my obligation to keep fighting for them.”
STORY FROM U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
The 2020 Census isn’t as complicated as people might think
Detroit police continue to investigate. No arrests had been made as of Monday, according to a spokeswoman.
Hogan has received an outpouring of community support, and she plans to stay on track to open the home in April.
The house will be Pure Heart Foundation’s first facility. Founded by Hogan in 2015, the nonprofit aims to break the cycle of generational incarceration by addressing the barriers and struggles that children ages 4 to 17 experience when a parent is in prison.
Both of Hogan's parents were incarcerated when she was a girl.
The front window of a home rented by the Pure Heart Foundation is shattered after a burglary Friday. The Detroit home is slated to open in April as a clubhouse for kids of incarcerated parents.
The front window of a home rented by the Pure Heart Foundation is shattered after a burglary Friday. The Detroit home is slated to open in April as a clubhouse for kids of incarcerated parents. (Photo: Pure Heart Foundation)
Hogan, 29, said her nonprofit has served about 2,500 families so far. Participants, who are referred to as scholars, take monthly outings to places like Detroit Pistons games, arcades and the movies.
Hogan expects to welcome 500 kids this year to the home that she's renting from Matrix Human Services. The staffed space will function like a clubhouse where children can drop in to unwind, connect with a mentor and access services like counseling and after-school programs. Parenting classes and financial literacy and workforce development courses will be offered. A summer camp will begin in July. Participants will not live at the home.
Chanel Jones said her 12-year-old son is excited about having a place to hang out with his peers. His father is incarcerated, and he knew of very few people who could relate to him before he got involved with the Pure Heart Foundation about three years ago, Jones said.
"For the children to come there and have little to no worries, to give them an outlet that they don’t have at home ... that’s her priority," she said of Hogan. "She wants them to have a safe haven."
Hogan said she plans to work with the Detroit Police Department to ensure that the home is secure before she starts over on renovations.
Jheremi Moore, 16, said he wishes that whoever broke into and vandalized the home had reached out for help instead.
He was one of the first participants in the program at age 13 when both his parents were incarcerated. He said he’s fortunate that his mother and father have since been released, but other youths involved in the Pure Heart Foundation have parents with long sentences or life in prison.
Moore said the clubhouse will be like a second home.
"Pure Heart is our little family," he said.
The Pure Heart Foundation may be contacted at 586-690-1431 or at www.pureheartcares.org. Donations may be made to the nonprofit's GoFundMe page.
Angie Jackson covers the challenges of formerly incarcerated citizens as a corps member with Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, with support from the Hudson-Webber Foundation. Click here to support her work. Contact Angie: ajackson@freepress.com; 313-222-1850. Follow her on Twitter: @AngieJackson23
RUSSIA/UK - Programme summary of RGVK Dagestan TV "Vremya Novostey" news 1530 gmt 14 Dec 11
Released on 2013-03-11 00:00 GMT
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Date 2011-12-17 14:00:16
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RUSSIA/UK - Programme summary of RGVK Dagestan TV "Vremya Novostey"
news 1530 gmt 14 Dec 11
Programme summary of RGVK Dagestan TV "Vremya Novostey" news 1530 gmt 14
Dec 11
Presenter Dzhamilya Akhmedova
1. 0116 Headlines.
2. 0139 Dagestani leader Magomedsalam Magomedov, head of the North
Caucasus Regional Centre of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Nikolay
Lityuk, Dagestani Emergencies Minister Nariman Kazimagomedov and head of
the Derbentskiy District municipality Kurban Kurbanov have taken part in
the opening ceremony of a fire department in Belidzhi village of
Derbentskiy District.
3. 0223 The Dagestani leader inspected agricultural facilities in
Kayakentskiy District within the framework of his working trip to
southern Dagestan. At his meeting with senior officials, Magomedsalam
Magomedov discussed development of irrigation systems in the republic's
south.
4. 0256 Magomedsalam Magomedov met editors-in-chief and journalists of
Dagestani and federal mass media outlets, as well as famous Dagestani
artists and showmen.
5. 1236 Zubayru Zubayriyev appointed head of the Dagestani leader's
information policy department and press service.
6. 1317 Dagestani First Deputy Prime Minister Mukhtar Medzhidov held a
meeting of coordination task force to discuss implementation of federal
law on provision of state and municipal services in the republic. Only
four municipalities, namely Makhachkala, Izberbash, Gunibskiy and
Novolakskiy districts, have presented a list of services in electronic
format so far.
7. 1432 A scientific conference devoted to setting up of a drug
addiction prevention system by local government bodies held in the
republic's National Library today.
8. 1852 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree on 8
December, according to which special-purpose police officers will
receive bonuses amounting to 100 per cent of base salaries in 2012.
9. 1922 Acting head of the investigations directorate for Makhachkala's
Sovetskiy district Arsen Gadzhibekov killed at the entrance to his house
on the night of 14 December. Gadzhibekov died on the spot as a result of
gunshot wounds.
10. 2021 Dagestan commemorates journalists killed in the line of duty.
11. 2132 Representatives of the Chistoye Serdtse (Pure Heart) Foundation
and Dagestani MP Magomed Shabanov presented sweets to inmates of a
correctional facility for minors ahead of New Year holiday.
12. The Voluntary Society for the Promotion of the Army, the Air Force
and the Navy (DOSAAF) celebrates its 85th anniversary this year. The
Dagestani branch of the organization held a contest on this occasion.
13. 2630 Dagestani office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service celebrates
its 20th anniversary today.
14. 2717 Foreign news.
15. 2912 Sports.
16. 3108 Presenter signs off.
Source: RGVK TV, Makhachkala, in Russian 1530 gmt 14 Dec 11
BBC Mon TCU 171211 ea/dbr
(c) Copyright British Broadcasting Corporation 2011
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Tales Of The New Crown: Ohio & Its No Person Left Behind Ancient Humors Race Assignment Data Scraping Predictive Modeling Crap - The Surge For AI Gerrymandering
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| Ohio Health Race Metrics Exclusive Measurement Tool |
How the hell are they testing and measuring race?
They have a category for "multiracial"?
What is that?
Lump and dump the missing variable data you can use to plug in to your predictive modeling crap to get the pareto optimalized crap to match your fact based theories to pitch for those federal grants to come up with some fake ass Public Private Partnership to come up with some foreign corporate Social Impact Bond programs that you go and run some longitudial cohort crap, to prove you are a statistical soothsayer?
Is that what the multiracial is all about?
Predictive modeling is propaganda crap they call "evidence-based".
"Look what I made! I made some facts to base my evidence."
That is called fraud and you know if someone took the time to read your methodology, it would be found some serious mental health issues when it comes to treating people as humans, and not goods.
The first rule in any form of research methodology is to explain how you constructed your tool of measurement.
In U.S. prisons, they run blood tests to determine which population you are assigned.
Health metrics is a fancy term they came up with to tighten up their corporate parental rights legal doctrines in stealin' the children, land & vote.
It is AI gerrymandering, more intuitively recognized as modern day human trafficking.
It is an entire industry, from cloud based genetic libraries to data management systems, going through the universities, putting the money in their own, private ventures pockets.
These data are so dirty, dirty, dirty.
They fraudulently manipulated the public record.
They falsely advise through dirty data.
You cannot measure race because it is fake, a pseudo science based upon chattel law of property ownership of Partus Sequitur Ventrum doctrine.
It is not a Bell Curve, it is a Gaussian Function!!!
#kurtosismatters
The Bell Curve was a product of a couple of drunk guys who drew on the back of a cocktail napkin, "Black dumb. White smart."
These people are stupid.
Just stop it!
#maytheheavensfall
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Thursday, March 5, 2020
JUDICIARY: Presidential Clemency and Opportunities for Reform
But what about the sentencing guidelines and exculpatory evidence?
What about due process?
What about corruption in the judiciary?
What about Detroit?
A prosecutor's job is to prosecute.
If a prosecutor does not prosecute, they are not doing their job.
A prosecutor's job is to prosecute.
If a prosecutor does not prosecute, they are not doing their job.
Support Documents
- Added 03/03/2020 at 10:51 AM
First Published: February 27, 2020 at 06:02 PM
Witnesses
Ms. Rachel Barkow
Vice Dean and Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy and Faculty Director, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, New York University School of Law
Vice Dean and Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy and Faculty Director, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, New York University School of Law
Mr. Mark Osler
Professor and Robert and Marion Short Distinguished Chair in Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law
Professor and Robert and Marion Short Distinguished Chair in Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law
Ms. Cynthia Roseberry
Deputy Director, National Policy Advocacy Department, American Civil Liberties Union
Deputy Director, National Policy Advocacy Department, American Civil Liberties Union
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
Sunday, February 2, 2020
Michigan Fails To Explain Foreign Corporate Parental Rights & The Residuals Of The Peculiar Institution Of Gerrymandering In Human Asset Management Private Prisons
How can Michigan construct proposed legislation to end prison gerrymandering when it does not even legally define what gerrymandering is?
Now, that I have provided the legal origins of the entire doctrine of gerrymandering, we shall move into the next phase, by identifying the cui bono, or rather the national origins of the financial benefactors in the passage of this Bill.
The corporate parent has the legal right, by proxy, to execute the right to vote, which is done through absentee ballots.
The term which has been traditionally used to describe this prison gerrymandering is called vote packing, which I watched bloom in Detroit.
So, if voting is based upon residency, and not domicile, how come no one has raised this issue of law?
I am going to go out there and just say that we are dealing with the application of private commercial law over the management of human capital assets, such as the right to vote.
The majority of individuals who go to prison, are sentenced under the moral turpitude laws of poverty, meaning, they committed crimes because they were tired of being hungry, or, what I call as being victims of "Whoops" human socioeconomic human lab rat experimental programs gone horribly wrong.
Either way, someone needs to explain to me why gerrymandering is even considered legal, because it is just another fancy way of saying stealin' the children, land and vote.
Proposed legislation would change how Michigan's prisoners are counted in legislative and congressional districts, a move that researchers say could shift political power away from rural areas that claim a significant number of incarcerated people as constituents.
Senate Bill 759 aims to end the practice of counting prisoners as residents in the districts where they're currently incarcerated, which critics call "prison gerrymandering."
The bill, introduced by Sen. Sylvia Santana, D-Detroit, would require that prisoners' last-known addresses be used when establishing voting districts. Santana said the change is necessary to draw districts "of equal and fair proportions."
“Prisoners are people, too, and they should be counted in their home communities if we are to build a truly representative democracy," she said.
Like prisoners in all states except Maine and Vermont, the roughly 38,000 people serving time in Michigan Department of Corrections facilities cannot vote.
Advocates argue that counting prisoners in the districts where they're incarcerated, even though they're not part of surrounding community and cannot vote, unfairly boosts the populations of those areas.
"Communities with prisons have their political power inflated because their populations are inflated because of people who are in prison, and other communities see their votes sort of diluted," said Cara Brumfield, senior policy analyst for the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative.
More: Analysis: Detroit will be toughest US city to count population for 2020 Census
More: Michigan population increases for 8th straight year, but remains under 10 million
Political districts are redrawn every 10 years after the census.Santana hopes to change the law by April 1, designated as Census Day, when the U.S. Census Bureau says every home should have received an invitation to participate in the census.
Santana's legislation stands to have the greatest effect on state House districts that claim a high percentage of prisoners as constituents, said Aleks Kajstura, legal director of the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit advocating to count incarcerated people as residents of their home addresses.
"There would be less representational power concentrated in these few districts that have these huge incarcerated populations," she said. "There wouldn't be anywhere in the state that would gain the same amount of power that these districts lost."
There were three House districts drawn after the 2010 census that claimed prisoners as more than 5% of their population, Kajstura said.
Just more than 7% of people in District 70 were incarcerated when the mid-Michigan district was drawn after the 2010 census, according to Kajstura. That district is represented by Rep. Jim Lower, R-Greenville, who said Thursday that he didn't have enough information to form an opinion on Santana's bill. He added that voter turnout in his district, which includes three prisons in Montcalm and Gratiot counties, is low compared to surrounding areas.
It's unlikely that the proposal would have a significant effect on congressional districts. It wouldn't affect elections at the municipal or county levels because state law excludes state prisoners from being counted for representation purposes.
Advocates have been fighting for years for the U.S. Census Bureau to change its longstanding practice of counting prisoners as residents of the district where they're incarcerated.
The bureau hasn't altered its policy, but seven states have passed legislation similar to Santana's bill. After the census count, those states will adjust the data to reallocate incarcerated people for redistricting. Similar legislation is pending in eight other states, Kajstura said.
A state-level change to where Michigan's prisoners are counted would have no bearing on the distribution of federal funds for services and infrastructure because funding formulas don't use redistricting data, Kajstura said.
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SCOTUS Realizes Gerrymandering Is Constitutional Stealin' The Children, Land & Votes Under The Thirteenth Amendment Exception Clause
Now, that I have provided the legal origins of the entire doctrine of gerrymandering, we shall move into the next phase, by identifying the cui bono, or rather the national origins of the financial benefactors in the passage of this Bill.
SENATE BILL NO. 759Found in this Bill, we have a term, that is arbitrarily and capriciously defined as "pre-incarceration address".
January 28, 2020, Introduced by Senator SANTANA and referred to the Committee on Elections.
A bill to require that the pre-incarceration address of incarcerated individuals be reported when providing information for voting district population counts; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state officers and entities.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. As used in this act:
(a) "Department" means the department of corrections.
(b) "Pre-incarceration address" means the address at which an incarcerated individual resided before the individual's current incarceration.
Sec. 2. For purposes of reporting the residency of an individual who is incarcerated in a correctional institution operated by the department, as that information relates to a population count that is used for the establishment of a voting district, the department shall report the individual's pre-incarceration address.
'Your Body Being Used': Where Prisoners Who Can't Vote Fill Voting Districts
When an individual is duly order by the court of law to be placed under the auspices of the State, there is a transfer of the grant of parental right of the chattel, meaning, the prison, being a private prison in most cases, becomes the corporate parent.The corporate parent has the legal right, by proxy, to execute the right to vote, which is done through absentee ballots.
The term which has been traditionally used to describe this prison gerrymandering is called vote packing, which I watched bloom in Detroit.
So, if voting is based upon residency, and not domicile, how come no one has raised this issue of law?
I am going to go out there and just say that we are dealing with the application of private commercial law over the management of human capital assets, such as the right to vote.
The majority of individuals who go to prison, are sentenced under the moral turpitude laws of poverty, meaning, they committed crimes because they were tired of being hungry, or, what I call as being victims of "Whoops" human socioeconomic human lab rat experimental programs gone horribly wrong.
Either way, someone needs to explain to me why gerrymandering is even considered legal, because it is just another fancy way of saying stealin' the children, land and vote.
Gerrymandering was named after Elbridge Gerry, former Vice President and grand father of Eldridge Gerry founded the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where what we know today as Child Protective Services was known as the Gerry Society.
Michigan bill aims to end 'prison gerrymandering' before 2020 census
Proposed legislation would change how Michigan's prisoners are counted in legislative and congressional districts, a move that researchers say could shift political power away from rural areas that claim a significant number of incarcerated people as constituents.Senate Bill 759 aims to end the practice of counting prisoners as residents in the districts where they're currently incarcerated, which critics call "prison gerrymandering."
The bill, introduced by Sen. Sylvia Santana, D-Detroit, would require that prisoners' last-known addresses be used when establishing voting districts. Santana said the change is necessary to draw districts "of equal and fair proportions."
“Prisoners are people, too, and they should be counted in their home communities if we are to build a truly representative democracy," she said.
Like prisoners in all states except Maine and Vermont, the roughly 38,000 people serving time in Michigan Department of Corrections facilities cannot vote.
Advocates argue that counting prisoners in the districts where they're incarcerated, even though they're not part of surrounding community and cannot vote, unfairly boosts the populations of those areas.
"Communities with prisons have their political power inflated because their populations are inflated because of people who are in prison, and other communities see their votes sort of diluted," said Cara Brumfield, senior policy analyst for the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative.
More: Analysis: Detroit will be toughest US city to count population for 2020 Census
More: Michigan population increases for 8th straight year, but remains under 10 million
Political districts are redrawn every 10 years after the census.Santana hopes to change the law by April 1, designated as Census Day, when the U.S. Census Bureau says every home should have received an invitation to participate in the census.
Santana's legislation stands to have the greatest effect on state House districts that claim a high percentage of prisoners as constituents, said Aleks Kajstura, legal director of the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit advocating to count incarcerated people as residents of their home addresses.
"There would be less representational power concentrated in these few districts that have these huge incarcerated populations," she said. "There wouldn't be anywhere in the state that would gain the same amount of power that these districts lost."
There were three House districts drawn after the 2010 census that claimed prisoners as more than 5% of their population, Kajstura said.
Just more than 7% of people in District 70 were incarcerated when the mid-Michigan district was drawn after the 2010 census, according to Kajstura. That district is represented by Rep. Jim Lower, R-Greenville, who said Thursday that he didn't have enough information to form an opinion on Santana's bill. He added that voter turnout in his district, which includes three prisons in Montcalm and Gratiot counties, is low compared to surrounding areas.
It's unlikely that the proposal would have a significant effect on congressional districts. It wouldn't affect elections at the municipal or county levels because state law excludes state prisoners from being counted for representation purposes.
Advocates have been fighting for years for the U.S. Census Bureau to change its longstanding practice of counting prisoners as residents of the district where they're incarcerated.
The bureau hasn't altered its policy, but seven states have passed legislation similar to Santana's bill. After the census count, those states will adjust the data to reallocate incarcerated people for redistricting. Similar legislation is pending in eight other states, Kajstura said.
A state-level change to where Michigan's prisoners are counted would have no bearing on the distribution of federal funds for services and infrastructure because funding formulas don't use redistricting data, Kajstura said.
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Friday, October 25, 2019
JUDICIARY: CHAIRMAN NADLER STATEMENT AT OVERSIGHT HEARING ON THE BUREAU OF PRISONS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FIRST STEP ACT - October 17, 2019
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security hearing on oversight of the Bureau of Prisons and implementation of the First Step Act:
“I thank our Crime Subcommittee Chair, the Gentlelady from California, Ms. Bass, for holding this hearing today to carry out our oversight responsibilities over the Bureau of Prisons and implementation of the First Step Act.
“Passage of the First Step Act, thanks to the leadership of Ranking Member Collins, along with the Gentleman from New York, Mr. Jeffries, and many others, was an important bipartisan achievement. It has been almost one year since the First Step Act was enacted and, while there have been some positive developments, many questions remain about its implementation.
“We must ensure that any changes we put in place in the Bureau of Prisons, as a result of the First Step Act, are carried through in a transparent fashion and in a way that alleviates—not exacerbates—the disparities that already exist in the criminal justice system. I am concerned that the risk assessment tool established by the Department of Justice pursuant to the First Step Act fails this test. I, therefore, look forward to today’s hearing and a full discussion of these issues.
“I am especially glad that Dr. Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, Director of the Bureau of Prisons, is here because I remain concerned about an incident that took place earlier this year at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn—in my district. In late January and early February 2019, a severe cold wave caused by a weakened jet stream around the Arctic polar vortex hit Canada and the northeastern United States. The temperature in New York, on January 31st, reached 2 degrees Fahrenheit, with a windchill of negative 17 degrees.
“On the coldest week of the year, there was a fire at MDC and something went very wrong. Inmates—many of whom only had short-sleeved shirts to wear—had no heat, they had no electricity, and they had no way to contact their loved ones. Inmates who needed medication, had none. Inmates who needed CPAP machines to sleep safely could not use them because there was no power. Everyone was freezing—and many were terrified.
“Along with Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, I went to MDC in the middle of all this. I could not believe what I saw. Not only was there no plan in place to assure inmate safety in case of a power outage, there appeared to be no sense of urgency to address this life threatening problem.
“Congresswoman Velazquez and I insisted that the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice investigate. Last month, OIG issued a report, which contains alarming findings that are consistent with what we had heard and seen.
“According to the report, there have been long-standing temperature regulation issues at MDC, which have gone unaddressed. This is unacceptable. Moreover, BOP leadership and staff failed to manage effectively critical aspects of the jail operation during the emergency. This, too, is unacceptable. BOP must do better.
“I am also concerned that BOP has been plagued by staffing shortages for years. To make up for these shortages, staff are often called upon to work overtime, and often many times in the same week. BOP also relies on a practice called ‘augmentation’ through which staff who are not correctional officers—including secretaries, teachers, nurses, and cooks—perform the duties of corrections officers, including supervising inmates in housing units and elsewhere.
“These staff are ill-equipped to replace experienced correctional officers who know the inmates and the responsibilities of their assigned posts. Augmentation also reduces access to programming, recreation, and education initiatives, which are key to maintaining safe facilities and reducing recidivism—one of the major goals of the First Step Act.
“From press accounts and from what we have been told by corrections union representatives, it appears that these staffing issues may have contributed to the failure of BOP to adequately supervise Jeffrey Epstein, who should have been under greater and more skilled supervision before he killed himself this summer.
“These are just some of the important issues that we must examine today. I look forward to hearing from our two panels of distinguished witnesses, and I yield back the balance of my time.”
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Saturday, September 28, 2019
The Congressional Exception: Private Human Plantation Warehouse For Bioethical Experimentation Contract Approved For Michigan - Residuals Of The Peculiar Institution
Welcome to Michigan human plantations.
Michigan got the border baby contracts, too.
This is modern day human trafficking.
This is what built this great nation.
This is where they do the human experiments and bill Medicaid.
If the U.S. Justice System is being reformed, that means stocks would tumble if those beds are not filled.
Just like what was done when the Emancipation Proclamation was gloriously enshrined in our history to distract us from watching the plantations change out their arms by slapping on a cross and calling it a child welfare charity for gerrymandering.
Show me where it states in the Thirteenth Amendment that slavery was abolished in the U.S.?
The GEO Group Inc. won the contract to house up to 1,800 adult inmates at its North Lake Correction Facility in Baldwin from the Federal Bureau of Prisons in May.
Protesters march and chant outside a Prudential financial services branch office building on West Big Beaver, in Troy, August 13, 2019. The protesters called on Prudential to divest from GEO Group Inc., a major private prison who will begin housing non-U.S. citizens convicted of crimes in Baldwin, Michigan next week.
Village of Baldwin President Jim Truxton said the facility plans to begin admitting inmates on Tuesday, but GEO Group would only confirm the site would be “ready to receive inmates as soon as Tuesday."
The inmates housed in Baldwin through the federal Criminal Alien Requirement Program usually have 90 months or less to serve on sentences that typically involve nonviolent drug offenses or re-entry to the country after deportation.
All face deportation after completing their sentences in Baldwin.
The prison has hired 234 staff members, including 34 medical staff, and is in the process of hiring more. Many of the hires are from the county or surrounding area and will make between $35,000 and $76,000, according to GEO Group.
The Florida-based firm that has other similar facilities in the U.S. expects the federal contract to generate roughly $37 million a year in incremental annualized revenues.
Inmates will be offered courses that include basic adult education, introduction to computers, building trades, life skills, religious services and suicide prevention, according to GEO Group.
Truxton has long been a supporter of the facility and said most of the community is also happy with the contract for the prison.
“A filled bed is a filled bed; it’s profit for GEO and they’re hiring people,” Truxton said. “How is it any different than GM building a new plant in the Detroit area?”
The Baldwin facility accounts for roughly half of the taxable value of the surrounding township and has paid $8 million to upgrade and expand Baldwin’s waste water treatment plant to handle the prison’s new federal population, Truxton said.
“What a privately owned facility like North Lake Correctional Facility means to the poorest county in the state is $1.5 million in ad valorem taxes plus personal property taxes plus jobs,” he said.
The American Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns about the safety of private federal prisons in other states but did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the new population at North Lake Correction Facility.
The building was constructed in 1999 and contracted with the Michigan Department of Corrections through 2005 to house offenders under the age of 20, according to department spokesman Chris Gautz. The facility later had a brief contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and a small contract with the Vermont Department of Corrections in 2016.
GEO Group attempted to sell the prison to the Michigan Department of Corrections a few years ago, but with the group's last, best offer at $100 million the department declined, Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz said.
Privately owned facilities like the one in Baldwin generally present a lower-cost option for the housing of low-security federal prisoners. As of April 2017, the cost to house a low-security inmate at a contracted site such as the Baldwin prison averaged $68.19 a day, while housing an inmate in a low-security federal facility averaged $87.41 a day.
The Baldwin facility will be one of roughly a dozen private facilities contracted to house federal non-citizen offenders for the Bureau of Prisons. Of the 177,300 federal inmates currently housed by the federal bureau, 33,412 are non-U.S. citizens and nearly 16,000 of those non-U.S. citizens are housed in privately managed facilities like the one in Baldwin, according to federal data.
Roughly 10,200 inmates being housed within the Federal Bureau of Prisons are being held on immigration-related felonies.
The correction facility was built in 1999 and provided correctional services to the Michigan Department of Corrections for several years.
Earlier this year, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer blocked the sale of a separate former state prison to a different company that wanted to open an immigration detention center in Ionia because the company — Immigration Centers of America — could not guarantee the facility would only be used to house single adults who were not separate from family when they arrived in the U.S.
The federal prison bureau began contracting with private companies in 1997 to decrease overcrowding and respond to congressional mandates, according to the U.S. Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Many of the inmates incarcerated in these contract prisons are Mexican nationals with convictions for immigration offenses who have 90 months or less remaining to serve on their sentences,” the inspector general said in a 2016 report.
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Michigan got the border baby contracts, too.
This is modern day human trafficking.
This is what built this great nation.
This is where they do the human experiments and bill Medicaid.
If the U.S. Justice System is being reformed, that means stocks would tumble if those beds are not filled.
Just like what was done when the Emancipation Proclamation was gloriously enshrined in our history to distract us from watching the plantations change out their arms by slapping on a cross and calling it a child welfare charity for gerrymandering.
Show me where it states in the Thirteenth Amendment that slavery was abolished in the U.S.?
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation
The Congressional Exception
Private prison company to house non-U.S. citizens at Michigan facility
A private prison company in Northern Michigan could begin housing non-U.S. citizens convicted of federal crimes as early as next week as part of a 10-year contract with the federal government.The GEO Group Inc. won the contract to house up to 1,800 adult inmates at its North Lake Correction Facility in Baldwin from the Federal Bureau of Prisons in May.Protesters march and chant outside a Prudential financial services branch office building on West Big Beaver, in Troy, August 13, 2019. The protesters called on Prudential to divest from GEO Group Inc., a major private prison who will begin housing non-U.S. citizens convicted of crimes in Baldwin, Michigan next week.
Village of Baldwin President Jim Truxton said the facility plans to begin admitting inmates on Tuesday, but GEO Group would only confirm the site would be “ready to receive inmates as soon as Tuesday."
The inmates housed in Baldwin through the federal Criminal Alien Requirement Program usually have 90 months or less to serve on sentences that typically involve nonviolent drug offenses or re-entry to the country after deportation.
All face deportation after completing their sentences in Baldwin.
The prison has hired 234 staff members, including 34 medical staff, and is in the process of hiring more. Many of the hires are from the county or surrounding area and will make between $35,000 and $76,000, according to GEO Group.
The Florida-based firm that has other similar facilities in the U.S. expects the federal contract to generate roughly $37 million a year in incremental annualized revenues.
Inmates will be offered courses that include basic adult education, introduction to computers, building trades, life skills, religious services and suicide prevention, according to GEO Group.
Truxton has long been a supporter of the facility and said most of the community is also happy with the contract for the prison.
“A filled bed is a filled bed; it’s profit for GEO and they’re hiring people,” Truxton said. “How is it any different than GM building a new plant in the Detroit area?”
The Baldwin facility accounts for roughly half of the taxable value of the surrounding township and has paid $8 million to upgrade and expand Baldwin’s waste water treatment plant to handle the prison’s new federal population, Truxton said.
“What a privately owned facility like North Lake Correctional Facility means to the poorest county in the state is $1.5 million in ad valorem taxes plus personal property taxes plus jobs,” he said.
The American Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns about the safety of private federal prisons in other states but did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the new population at North Lake Correction Facility.
The building was constructed in 1999 and contracted with the Michigan Department of Corrections through 2005 to house offenders under the age of 20, according to department spokesman Chris Gautz. The facility later had a brief contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and a small contract with the Vermont Department of Corrections in 2016.
GEO Group attempted to sell the prison to the Michigan Department of Corrections a few years ago, but with the group's last, best offer at $100 million the department declined, Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz said.
Privately owned facilities like the one in Baldwin generally present a lower-cost option for the housing of low-security federal prisoners. As of April 2017, the cost to house a low-security inmate at a contracted site such as the Baldwin prison averaged $68.19 a day, while housing an inmate in a low-security federal facility averaged $87.41 a day.
The Baldwin facility will be one of roughly a dozen private facilities contracted to house federal non-citizen offenders for the Bureau of Prisons. Of the 177,300 federal inmates currently housed by the federal bureau, 33,412 are non-U.S. citizens and nearly 16,000 of those non-U.S. citizens are housed in privately managed facilities like the one in Baldwin, according to federal data.
Roughly 10,200 inmates being housed within the Federal Bureau of Prisons are being held on immigration-related felonies.
The correction facility was built in 1999 and provided correctional services to the Michigan Department of Corrections for several years.
Earlier this year, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer blocked the sale of a separate former state prison to a different company that wanted to open an immigration detention center in Ionia because the company — Immigration Centers of America — could not guarantee the facility would only be used to house single adults who were not separate from family when they arrived in the U.S.
The federal prison bureau began contracting with private companies in 1997 to decrease overcrowding and respond to congressional mandates, according to the U.S. Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Many of the inmates incarcerated in these contract prisons are Mexican nationals with convictions for immigration offenses who have 90 months or less remaining to serve on their sentences,” the inspector general said in a 2016 report.
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
DOJ: Federal Government to Resume Capital Punishment After Nearly Two Decade Lapse - Crimes Against Wellbeing Of Children
We begin the descent.
It gets much darker because they do it in the name of the Lord.
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It gets much darker because they do it in the name of the Lord.
Attorney General William P. Barr Directs the Federal Bureau of Prisons to Adopt an Addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol and Schedule the Executions of Five Death-Row Inmates Convicted of Murdering Children
Attorney General William P. Barr Directs the Federal Bureau of Prisons to Adopt an Addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol and Schedule the Executions of Five Death-Row Inmates Convicted of Murdering Children
Attorney General William P. Barr has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to adopt a proposed Addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol—clearing the way for the federal government to resume capital punishment after a nearly two decade lapse, and bringing justice to victims of the most horrific crimes. The Attorney General has further directed the Acting Director of the BOP, Hugh Hurwitz, to schedule the executions of five death-row inmates convicted of murdering, and in some cases torturing and raping, the most vulnerable in our society—children and the elderly.
“Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,” Attorney General Barr said. “Under Administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought the death penalty against the worst criminals, including these five murderers, each of whom was convicted by a jury of his peers after a full and fair proceeding. The Justice Department upholds the rule of law—and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”
The Federal Execution Protocol Addendum, which closely mirrors protocols utilized by several states, including currently Georgia, Missouri, and Texas, replaces the three-drug procedure previously used in federal executions with a single drug—pentobarbital. Since 2010, 14 states have used pentobarbital in over 200 executions, and federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have repeatedly upheld the use of pentobarbital in executions as consistent with the Eighth Amendment.
Upon the Attorney General’s direction, Acting Director Hurwitz adopted the Addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol and, in accordance with 28 C.F.R. Part 26, scheduled executions for the following individuals:
- Daniel Lewis Lee, a member of a white supremacist group, murdered a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl. After robbing and shooting the victims with a stun gun, Lee covered their heads with plastic bags, sealed the bags with duct tape, weighed down each victim with rocks, and threw the family of three into the Illinois bayou. On May 4, 1999, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas found Lee guilty of numerous offenses, including three counts of murder in aid of racketeering, and he was sentenced to death. Lee’s execution is scheduled to occur on Dec. 9, 2019.
- Lezmond Mitchell stabbed to death a 63-year-old grandmother and forced her nine-year-old granddaughter to sit beside her lifeless body for a 30 to 40-mile drive. Mitchell then slit the girl’s throat twice, crushed her head with 20-pound rocks, and severed and buried both victims’ heads and hands. On May 8, 2003, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona found Mitchell guilty of numerous offenses, including first degree murder, felony murder, and carjacking resulting in murder, and he was sentenced to death. Mitchell’s execution is scheduled to occur on Dec. 11, 2019.
- Wesley Ira Purkey violently raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl, and then dismembered, burned, and dumped the young girl’s body in a septic pond. He also was convicted in state court for using a claw hammer to bludgeon to death an 80-year-old woman who suffered from polio and walked with a cane. On Nov. 5, 2003, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri found Purkey guilty of kidnapping a child resulting in the child’s death, and he was sentenced to death. Purkey’s execution is scheduled to occur on Dec. 13, 2019.
- Alfred Bourgeois physically and emotionally tortured, sexually molested, and then beat to death his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. On March 16, 2004, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas found Bourgeois guilty of multiple offenses, including murder, and he was sentenced to death. Bourgeois’ execution is scheduled to occur on Jan. 13, 2020.
- Dustin Lee Honken shot and killed five people—two men who planned to testify against him and a single, working mother and her ten-year-old and six-year-old daughters. On Oct. 14, 2004, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa found Honken guilty of numerous offenses, including five counts of murder during the course of a continuing criminal enterprise, and he was sentenced to death. Honken’s execution is scheduled to occur on Jan. 15, 2020.
Each of these inmates has exhausted their appellate and post-conviction remedies, and currently no legal impediments prevent their executions, which will take place at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana. Additional executions will be scheduled at a later date.
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Friday, September 21, 2018
DOJ OIG: A Message from the Inspector General: Report on the BOP’s Contract Awarded to Sealaska Constructors, LLC to Build Facilities at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut
I just love the new format.
Clean. Simple. Cut to the chase.
Prison conditions are bad because no one was paying attention during procurement which is a likely indicator of stealin'.
Clean. Simple. Cut to the chase.
Prison conditions are bad because no one was paying attention during procurement which is a likely indicator of stealin'.
Results in Brief
We determined that the BOP solicited and entered into a sole-source contract with SCL in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), and that SCL constructed the facilities in accordance with BOP specifications. However, we identified several weaknesses in the BOP’s pre-award project planning. For example, the BOP had not anticipated significant problems with its plan to convert FCI Danbury’s existing federal prison camp (FPC) to a facility with a higher security level. By the time the BOP had identified the problems and implemented an alternative plan, it had already paid over $1.7 million to construct an entry building that was no longer necessary. Our report also describes weaknesses in the BOP’s: (1) planning for critical institutional aspects, such as programming, food services, and health services; (2) acquisition planning; (3) contractor performance evaluation; and (4) contract pricing procedures.
We determined that the BOP solicited and entered into a sole-source contract with SCL in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), and that SCL constructed the facilities in accordance with BOP specifications. However, we identified several weaknesses in the BOP’s pre-award project planning. For example, the BOP had not anticipated significant problems with its plan to convert FCI Danbury’s existing federal prison camp (FPC) to a facility with a higher security level. By the time the BOP had identified the problems and implemented an alternative plan, it had already paid over $1.7 million to construct an entry building that was no longer necessary. Our report also describes weaknesses in the BOP’s: (1) planning for critical institutional aspects, such as programming, food services, and health services; (2) acquisition planning; (3) contractor performance evaluation; and (4) contract pricing procedures.
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Friday, May 18, 2018
DOJ: Howdy Doody, Hugh Hurwitz - Detroit-style
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| Howdy Doody, Detroit style. |
Hugh has a background in child welfare procurement.
Hugh has a background in human intelligence.
Hugh knows about privatization.
Hugh has a background saving children because he knows what they do to the children.
“Cornerstone … is not a prison, it is a juvenile center,” said Hugh Hurwitz, a BOP spokesman.
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Attorney General Sessions Announces Hugh Hurwitz as the Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
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| Hugh Hurwitz |
“I am pleased to announce Hugh Hurwitz as the Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Hugh has honorably served the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the American people throughout his distinguished career of federal service.” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “I would also like to thank Mark Inch for proudly serving the Department of Justice as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and wish him luck in his future endeavors.”
Mr. Hurwitz began his career with the Bureau of Prisons as a law clerk in the Office of General Counsel in 1988. In 2003, Mr. Hurwitz was selected as the Chief of Acquisitions and Grants Services at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), later becoming the FDA's Chief of Information Technology Shared Services. In 2007, he was appointed Senior Procurement Executive for the U.S. Department of Education (ED) before being promoted to Deputy Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hurwitz joined NASA's Office of Inspector General in 2012 as the Assistant Inspector General for Management. In 2015, he returned to the Bureau of Prisons as the Senior Deputy Assistant Director of the Information, Policy and Public Affairs Division. In 2017, Mr. Hurwitz was named Assistant Director for the Reentry Services Division.
As Assistant Director, Mr. Hurwitz oversaw a wide variety of areas, including mental health and drug treatment, community placement, and the education, vocational and recreation training programs for federal inmates nationwide. Mr. Hurwitz was responsible for coordinating efforts with other disciplines, agencies, and organizations to facilitate the successful reintegration of inmates back to their communities upon release.
In 1987, Mr. Hurwitz received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Rochester. In 1990, he received his Juris Doctor degree from American University, Washington College of Law.
Fed Phaseout on Private Prisons: What It Means for Juvenile Offenders
Following a damning report from its inspector general’s office, the Department of Justice announced late last week that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) would gradually move away from contracting with private corrections agencies to securely confine federal inmates.
There are 22,000 BOP inmates housed in private facilities now, and the announcement is expected to precipitate a drop to 14,000 by next year. All contracts for private prison beds would sunset in a five-year window.
How does this affect the juvenile justice field? Based on Youth Services Insider‘s initial inquiries, not much, based on the nature of BOP’s juvenile contracts and how it differentiates them from adult correctional settings.
BOP policy is that juveniles convicted in adult court are not to be incarcerated in a federal prison until they turn 18, which means there are two implications to consider here.
The first is where BOP holds convicted youth until they reach 18. This is never a huge number; there are less than 30 convicted juveniles in the custody of BOP.
As mentioned, they can’t go to a BOP prison until they are adults, so the agency has to contract for their arrangements. But surprisingly, almost nothing will change for this group.
BOP contracts with one private provider, the Colorado-based Cornerstone Programs, for secure juvenile beds. BOP pays for space at Cornerstone’s facility in Post, Texas.
But even though the facility is secure and operated by a for-profit entity, it will not be subject to the overall policy change.
“Cornerstone … is not a prison, it is a juvenile center,” said Hugh Hurwitz, a BOP spokesman.
At any given time, a significant portion of juveniles in BOP custody are youth from Washington, D.C., who are dealt with in federal court when they are transferred to the adult system.
There will also be no change in how these youth are handled. BOP currently contracts with the city to house these juveniles in a single unit of the Correction Treatment Facility, an annex to the city’s jail.
As of right now, that facility is operated by a private prison provider, the Corrections Corporation of America. But plans have already been made for the city to take control of the facility in early 2017, and the juvenile unit is already staffed by city corrections officials.
BOP contracts with state and local corrections, known as intergovernmental agreements (IGA), will not change as a result of the planned phaseout of providers.
Aside from D.C. youth, many of the youth in BOP custody hail from Indian country. To that end, the agency has IGA relationships with North Dakota, Pennington County, South Dakota, and Maine.
The rest of BOP’s juvenile-related contracts are for non-secure beds in places with high Native American populations:
- Our Home, Inc, Huron, S.D.
- Our Home, Inc., Parkston, S.D.
- AMI Kids Non-Secure Juvenile, Cuba, N.M.
- McCrossan Boys Ranch, Sioux Falls, S.D.
All of those providers are nonprofits, but even if they weren’t, those contracts would be fine. If Cornerstone’s facility isn’t being deemed a “prison,” then certainly contracts for non-secure beds are safe.
The other juvenile justice factor here is whether the changes will influence where convicted juveniles end up after age 18. BOP does currently contract with Management and Training Corp. to operate Giles W. Dalby, a minimum-security facility in the same town as the Cornerstone juvenile center.
Many of the D.C. juvenile inmates are sent to Rivers, a low-security prison in North Carolina. Rivers became the primary receiver of D.C. inmates after the National Capital Revitalization Act of 1997 forced the closure of the D.C.-operated Lorton Correctional Complex.
Rivers did not get a glowing review in the inspector general’s report that prompted the move away from private contracts. From the report:
“Rivers had the highest rates of contraband finds (excluding cell phones), inmate assaults on staff, uses of force, guilty findings on inmate discipline cases, inmate grievances, positive drug tests, inmate-on-inmate sexual misconduct and the lowest phone monitoring rate.”
It’s worth noting, though, that someone who works with juvenile offenders in the federal system said several federally run prisons housing D.C. inmates are far worse than Rivers.
Rivers was built in 2000 by GEO Group, and the company has operated it on contract since 2001. So BOP will have to find new space for about 1,100 offenders, or perhaps buy the prison from GEO.
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