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Conflict Of Interest Brewing As Ohio Confronts Prison Overcrowding

February 10, 2015 By Brian Sonenstein 1 Comment

Ohio’s prison system is facing a severe overcrowding crisis. With facilities hovering around 130% capacity, prison chief Gary Mohr considered declaring an overcrowding emergency for the first time in the state’s history. This would have granted early release to prisoners nearing the end of their sentences, but those plans were inexplicably scuttled less than a month ago. It was unclear what the alternative strategy would be until Governor John Kasich released his budget proposal last week.

Kasich’s proposal calls for increasing the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) budget from $1.62 billion to $1.72 billion by 2017. It also doubles the budget for prisoner addiction services and commits $58 million to pursuing sentencing alternatives for low-level, nonviolent offenders over the next two years.

While a final budget has yet to be approved by the state legislature, the proposed increases put Director Mohr in a position that deserves serious scrutiny.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: Aramark, Arizona, Bureau of Prisons, California, Corizon Health Services, Corrections Corporation of America, food, Gary Mohr, healthcare, immigrants, John Kasich, Juvenile detention, Mayor de Blasio, Mayor John McNally, mental health, New York, New York City, Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, Ohio, Ohio Correctional Institution Inspection Committee, Preet Bharara, prison, Prison Overcrowding, prison reform, Private prison, Rikers Island, sexual assault, solitary confinement, transparency, US Attorney for the Southern District of NY, Youngstown

Early Release Law Unused As Ohio Prison Overcrowding Continues

February 5, 2015 By Brian Sonenstein 1 Comment

As prisoners, advocates and journalists warned of deteriorating conditions in Ohio’s prisons over the past year, the inmate population slowly crept back up to around 30% over capacity.

During that time, prisoners in the buckeye state were fed spoiled, inedible meals by the food contractor Aramark, sometimes tainted with maggots. They also suffered abuse and abysmal conditions at private prisons operated by Corrections Corp. of America (CCA), bad enough to inspire a 14-hour peaceful protest. Have the events of this past year finally generated enough misery and public scrutiny to pressure Ohio officials to act?

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: Aramark, Arizona Bureau of Prisons, California, Corizon Health Services, Corrections Corporation of America, Coshocton Tribune, food, healthcare, immigrants, John Kasich, Juvenile detention, Mayor de Blasio, Mayor John McNally, mental health, New York, New York City, Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, Ohio, Ohio Correctional Institution Inspection Committee, Preet Bharara, prison, Prison Overcrowding, prison reform, prisons, Private prison, protest, Rikers Island, sexual assault, solitary, solitary confinement, transparency, US Attorney for the Southern District of NY, Youngstown

Report: Corizon Health Services Killed Rikers Prisoner Bradley Ballard

January 28, 2015 By Brian Sonenstein Leave a Comment

The New York State Commission on Correction released a new report this week, detailing the findings from its investigation into the horrific and preventable death of mentally ill black inmate, Bradley Ballard.

Ballard was left in his cell for six days straight in September, 2013. Guards shut the water off to his cell for over four days, and not once during that time was he treated for his schizophrenia and diabetes. On the rare occasion that he was seen by a medical worker, their talks did not last for more than a minute at a time. He was eventually found naked on the floor, covered in feces and urine with a rubber band wound tightly around his cut and infected genitals.

Ballard would go into cardiac arrest just a few minutes after being removed from his cell and die from “diabetic ketoacidosis due to withholding of his diabetes medications complicated by sepsis due to severe tissue necrosis of his genitals as a result of self-mutliation.” The commission agreed with earlier assessments that Ballard’s death was, in fact, a homicide.

Filed Under: Health & Lifestyle, National News Tagged With: Bradley Ballard, Bureau of Prisons, California, Corizon Health Services, Corrections Corporation of America, CS Aramark Arizona, food, healthcare, Human Rights, immigration, Juvenile detention, Mayor de Blasio, Mayor John McNally, mental health, New York, New York City, Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, Ohio.Ohio Correctional Institution Inspection Committee, Preet Bharara, prison, prison reform, Private prison, Rikers Island, sexual assault, solitary, solitary confinement, transparency, US Attorney for the Southern District of NY, Youngstown

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