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Search results for "Inmate imports" ...
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Manager with the Vintu Empire-Inmate at the Chisinau Penitentiary
Sorin Ovidiu Vintu is the owner of the “most important and dynamic media empire in Romania.” He owns a number of media outlets and began expanding in neighboring countries. For years, Vintu’s source of income was unknown, until recently the media empire began losing money and the details came pouring out. The article brings to light the unknown details of his media empire, including details associated to his companies.
Tags: Media Empire; Romania; Media; News; Journalism; Offshore companies; Crime; Managers
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Delaware's Deadly Prisons
This four day series examined the health care for more than 6,000 inmates at Delaware's prisons. Documents and interviews showed that inmates did not receive routine or emergency care from state-contracted medical providers for ailments from cancer to AIDS. In several cases inmates died. The state did not oversee the contractors, and employees of the contractors said they were told that cost is more important than care.
Tags: prison; terminal disease; inmate care; AIDS; cancer; Department of Justice; Department of Corrections; FOIA; Department of Health and Human Services; private contractors; privatization; jail; incarceration
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The High Cost of Hard Time
The Virginian-Pilot investigates the Viriginia prison boom. "The series traced a costly prison-building boom that Virigina undertook in the mid-1990s, diverting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from other pressing needs such as education and transportation. Moreover, it was sold on a false premise: that the state was in a grip of a violent crime wave. in fact, crime in Virginia, already low by national standards, was declining. As a result, the state overbuilt, ending up with some 4,000 surplus prison cells. To fill them, it is now importing out-of-state prisoners in a unique cell-for-hire program. The series also found that contrary to proponents' emphasis on violent crime, most of the new inmates coming into the system are nonviolent offenders -- especially drug offenders."
Tags: Virginia; prisons; law enforcement; crime; violence; drugs; inmates; building; funds; money; taxpayers; waste
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The Promise and Peril of Private Prisons
This three-part series shows how a group of exported felons created jobs and contributed to the economic growth of small towns in the south where other industries failed. Most of them are murderers, sexual offenders from Wisconsin's over crowded prisons who were relocated to prisons in small towns in Tennessee and Texas. The move, however, also brought perils to these towns. A local guard was beaten up by inmates. He is now permanently disabled.
Tags: Inmate imports; prisoners; private prisons; CAR