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Correa blasts Nguyen for hiring a scandal-plagued private jail operator in Garden Grove

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Editor Posted in 2016 Elections, Bao Nguyen, Democratic Party, Garden Grove, Lou Correa, Santa Ana Leave a comment

For Immediate Release: September 21, 2016

Contact: Nina Tognazzini, (949) 933-7533, Shallman Communications

CORREA BLASTS NGUYEN FOR HIRING SCANDAL-PLAGUED PRIVATE JAIL OPERATOR

Atrocious Living Conditions, Mental and Sexual Abuse, and Wrongful Deaths Associated with the GEO Group

Santa Ana, CA – Following newspaper reports by the Orange County Register, former State Senator Lou Correa slams Congressional candidate Bao Nguyen for inviting disgraced jail operator GEO Group into Garden Grove.

On June 23 2015, Mayor Bao Nguyen gave $1.6 million to the GEO Group to run the city’s jail. That same day, 35 leading Democrats in the U.S. House Of Representatives, including Latino leader Rep. Raül Grijalva and civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis, wrote the Department of Homeland Security expressing grave concern for the deplorable treatment and sexual abuse of LBGT detainees by the GEO Group in its ICE detainee facilities. Continue reading→

Are CA prisoners being transferred across state lines for profit?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Editor Posted in California, Prisons Leave a comment

MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Wednesday, 20 November 2013

CONTACT: Brett Abrams : 516-841-1105 : brett@fitzgibbonmedia.com

WEDNESDAY: NEW REPORT Reveals Widespread Practice of Transferring Prisoners Across State Lines for Profit

Telephone News Press Conference on November 20th with Experts, Report Author, & Victims of Prison Transfer Reveals How CA, VT, HI and ID House Over 10,500 Prisoners Out-of-State For Profit

CALIFORNIA — In a new report to be released on Wednesday, November 20th, Grassroots Leadership, a 33-year old Southern-based national social justice organization that works to end for-profit incarceration, documents the widespread practice of transferring prisoners from California, Vermont, Hawaii and Idaho across state lines to for-profit private prison facilities. Continue reading→

Sen. Huff speaks about the state’s new prison plan

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Editor Posted in Bob Huff, California, Crime, Orange County Leave a comment

Capitol Comment with State Senator Bob Huff

Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) highlights the agreement on a prison plan between Republican Leaders in the Assembly and Senate, the Governor and the Assembly Speaker in his Capitol Comment for the week of August 26th, 2013.

The Governor earned Republican support for a plan he unveiled earlier this week by incorporating a number of Republican proposals that were forwarded to the Governor’s Office last April. The plan, which is designed to prevent the early release of ten thousand hardened criminals in state prison, provides for new bed space, rehabilitating and reopening closed prisons and sending prisoners to other states where prison overcrowding is not an issue. Continue reading→

Senate GOP investigating forced sterilization of female prison inmates

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Editor Posted in Bob Huff, Prisons, Republican Party Leave a comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 11, 2013

CONTACT: Bill Bird, (916) 651-4029

Senate Republicans Request Hearing on Reports of Coerced Sterilization of Female Prison Inmates

SACRAMENTO: Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) announced today that Senate Republicans have requested the Senate Committee on Public Safety convene an oversight hearing to investigate reports of the unapproved sterilization of at least 148 female inmates in state prisons by physicians under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Continue reading→

California Police Chiefs oppose court order to release up to 10,000 felons

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Editor Posted in California, Courts, Crime, Public Safety 2 Comments

CA Police Chiefs

PRESS RELEASE: June 20, 2013

Contact: Kim Raney, (626) 926-7004

California Police Chiefs Oppose Court Order to Release Up To 10,000 Felons

“We are appalled at today’s order by the Three Judge Court for California to start releasing up to 10,000 prisoners so that the prison population is reduced to 137% of capacity by the end of the year. We find it incredible that the court is putting the concerns of convicted felons before the safety of our communities, whose members depend on us for their safety and well-being. This will have a direct, unambiguous and severe impact on public safety,” said Covina Police Chief Kim Raney, President of the California Police Chiefs Association. Continue reading→