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Correctional Services Fraud

This archive displays posts tagged as relevant to fraud in the correctional services industry, also referred to as private prison fraud. You may also be interested in the following pages:

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Read the Essay Submitted by Inina Kachelmeier in the Second Annual Law School Scholarship Contest

Posted  12/16/21
The Constantine Cannon whistleblower team is pleased to share with you the Second Place Winner of the firm’s Second Annual Law School Whistleblower Essay Contest.  That award goes to Inina Kachelmeier, a first-year student at Northeastern University School of Law, Class of 2024. Inina received a Bachelor of Science in Biology, with minors in English and Economics, from the Robert D. Clark Honors College of...

Tagged in: Correctional Services Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, Scholarship,

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Read the Essay Submitted by Maggie Keenan in the Second Annual Law School Scholarship Contest

Posted  12/14/21
The Constantine Cannon whistleblower team is honored to announce this year’s Third-Place Winner of our Second Annual Law School Whistleblower Essay Contest.  The third-place award goes to Maggie Keenan, a professor at (and 2020 J.D. graduate of) Cleveland State University. Maggie received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Psychology from Cleveland State University in 2000.  She later received her...

Tagged in: Correctional Services Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, Retaliation, Scholarship,

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October 19, 2021

JPay, a financial services company which, among other services, provides debit cards to prisoners to meet their essential needs as they are released from incarceration, will pay $6 million – $4 million in restitution and $2 million as a civil penalty – to resolve allegations that they violated the Consumer Financial Protection Act and Electronic Fund Transfer Act by charging consumers unlawful fees.  As part of the settlement, JPay is also limited in fees it can impose on release cards going forward.  CFPB

Tagged in: Correctional Services Fraud, Financial and Investment Fraud, Financial Institution Fraud,

Can the False Claims Act Protect Immigration Detainees from Forced Labor?

Posted  07/2/21
person holding onto prison bars
By William Greenlaw A recent human rights case raises a novel question of False Claims Act applicability: when private immigration detention facilities defraud the government by forcing individuals into labor. The federal government has a vast regulatory and statutory scheme meant to stop federal contractors from using trafficked labor. But forced labor in detention facilities has historically been overlooked....

Tagged in: Correctional Services Fraud, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Human Rights, Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Eligibility,

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June 25, 2021

Alabama-based NaphCare Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $700,000 to settle allegations of violating the False Claims Act in connection with healthcare services provided to inmates housed in an Indiana-based Federal Bureau of Prisons facility.  Between 2014 and 2020, NaphCare allegedly defaulted to charging the government for higher-level services than were provided when physicians failed to indicate the level of service provided.  DOJ

Tagged in: Correctional Services Fraud, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Healthcare Fraud,

Arizona Software Glitch Keeps Prisoners Incarcerated, Until the Whistleblowers Showed Up

Posted  03/5/21
Hands grasping around prison bars
In a story straight out of a dystopian novel, a faulty computer system has kept Arizona prisoners locked up beyond their release date.  A government contractor, Business & Decision, North America, built a system that is supposed to calculate each person’s release date.  In exchange, the contractor received $24 million from the state.  The system, however, didn’t work, leaving hundreds of people behind bars who...

Tagged in: Contract Non-Compliance, Correctional Services Fraud, Government Procurement Fraud, Human Rights, Importance of Whistleblowers,

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Constantine Cannon continues its commitment to ending abuses in private detention facilities

Posted  02/17/21
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This week, Constantine Cannon is proud to continue its representation as pro bono counsel to Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom for Immigrants in supporting California’s efforts to end the use of private immigration detention facilities in the state.  Last spring, we filed a “friend of the court” brief for these same organizations in the district court in opposition to the Geo...

Tagged in: Correctional Services Fraud, Government Procurement Fraud, Human Rights,

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2020 Whistleblower of the Year Candidate – Dawn Wooten

Posted  01/5/21
barbed wired fence
Privately run immigration detention facilities have been a stain on our nation’s reputation for years now.  The refugees and other immigrants who are detained within their walls suffer family separation, inadequate medical care, lack of basic necessities, inedible food, psychological torture, and even death from easily treatable diseases due to flimsy infection controls.  The current pandemic crisis only amplifies...

Tagged in: Correctional Services Fraud, Human Rights, Importance of Whistleblowers, Improper Medical Facility, Whistleblower of the Year,

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For Garlic Powder They Got Maltodextrin

Posted  08/28/20
The centuries-old yet enduring fraud of cheap-substitutions for quality foodstuffs reared its head during the U.S. Civil War when the government bought supplies from contractors: “For sugar, it often got sand; for coffee, rye; for leather, something no better than brown paper; for sound horses and mules, spavined beasts and dying donkeys; and for serviceable muskets and pistols, the experimental failures of sanguine...

Tagged in: Contract Non-Compliance, Correctional Services Fraud, Falsifying Invoices, FCA Federal, FCA State, Government Procurement Fraud, Pricing Fraud,

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Constantine Cannon Files Amicus Brief in Support of California’s Effort to Curb Private Prison Company Abuses

Posted  03/13/20
prison-silhouette
Constantine Cannon is proud to represent three leading immigrants rights organizations, Human Rights Watch, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and Freedom For Immigrants in filing a “friend of the court,” or amicus brief, in two cases related to California’s right to ban private prison companies.  Last year, California enacted AB 32, which barred private prison companies from operating within the state.  The...

Tagged in: Correctional Services Fraud, Government Procurement Fraud, Human Rights,

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