Oklahoma Lottery privatization proposal advances through House committee
Source: Randy Krehbiel, Tulsa World, March 28, 2013 A proposal that could lead to privatization of the Oklahoma Lottery eased through a House committee on Wednesday despite reservations about its...
View ArticleOffice of Privatization
Source: Michael Cross, KOSU, April 16, 2013 Oklahoma is getting ready to pass a law to allow a state agency to study the aspects of privatizing parts of state government. Senate Bill 1008, to create...
View ArticleThe Dirty Thirty: Nothing to Celebrate About 30 Years of Corrections...
Source: Holly Kirby, Bob Libal, Piper Madison, Julia Morris, Kymberlie Quong Charles, Grassroots Leadership and the Public Safety and Justice Campaign, June 2013 From the blog post: Today Grassroots...
View ArticleParental Triggers for Failing Schools
Source: Adrienne Lu, Stateline.org, July 1, 2013 …In reality, trigger laws, which allow parents to intervene in a struggling school, are a lot more complicated and controversial. Versions of parent...
View ArticlePrivate Prison Company Increases Profits as More Blacks Land in Prison
Source: Freddie Allen, Atlanta Daily World, July 16, 2013 Corrections Corporation of America opened its first immigration detention center in a renovated motel in Houston nearly 30 years ago and now...
View ArticleCapital Briefs: Inmate labor proposed for separation
Source: Jeremy Carroll, Waste & Recycling News, July 8, 2013 Inmate labor proposed for separation New Jersey: Senate Bill 2914 authorizes Department of Corrections and county correctional...
View ArticleMan sues Boca prison operator, says inmates extorted him on dating service
Source: Brett Clarkson, Sun Sentinel, July 24, 2013 The Boca Raton-based prison company at the center of an ill-fated attempt to put its name on FAU’s football stadium now finds itself at the center of...
View ArticleEEOC Sues Midwest Regional Medical Center For Disability Discrimination
Source: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Press Release, July 30, 2013 Hospital Fired Employee for Accepting its Offer of a Brief Leave of Absence After Cancer Treatment, Federal...
View ArticleGallery: Fun Fueled by For-Profit College Fraud
Source: David Halperin, Huffington Post, September 3, 2013 The images above depict a life of glitzy charity events and socializing with the rich and famous. It’s the life of Arthur E. Benjamin of...
View ArticleRep. Brown: Privatization could destroy healthy state pension plan
Source: Teddye Snell, Daily Press, October 9, 2013 … Rep. Mike Brown, D-Tahlequah, said his colleagues would rather give credits away to natural gas and oil companies than fund the state’s liabilities,...
View ArticleAccess Restored for Food Stamp Users, Xerox Says
Source: Associated Press, October 12, 2013 People in Ohio, Michigan and 15 other states found themselves temporarily unable to use their food stamp debit-style cards on Saturday, after a routine test...
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Out of Control: The Coast-to-Coast Failures of Outsourcing Public Services to...
Source: In The Public Interest, December 2013 From the abstract: Eager for quick cash, state and local governments across America have for decades handed over control of critical public services and...
View ArticleThree More States Seek to Curb Reckless Outsourcing of Public Services,...
Source: In the Public Interest, Press Release, February 5, 2014 Legislators in California, Georgia, and Oklahoma are joining a national movement to reign in reckless outsourcing of public services to...
View ArticleThe Color of Corporate Corrections, Part II: Contractual Exemptions and the...
Source: Christopher Petrella, Radical Criminology, no. 3, 2014 My previous study published in Radical Criminology, (Issue 2, Fall 2013) demonstrates that people of color-though historically...
View ArticleThe Private Prison Racket
Source: Matt Stroud, Politico, February 24, 2014 Companies that manage prisons on our behalf have abysmal records. So why do we keep giving them business? … … As inmate populations have soared over the...
View ArticlePrivatization plan for Medicaid clears Senate
Source: Sean Murphy, Associated Press, March 13, 2014 A plan to test privatizing the management of health care services to the poor in Oklahoma narrowly passed the state Senate on Thursday over the...
View ArticleCharters, Public Schools and a Chasm Between
Source: Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, May 11, 2014 …But two decades since the schools began to appear, educators from both systems concede that very little of what has worked for charter schools...
View ArticleIn private prisons, grievances go unread and unanswered
Source: Beryl Lipton, Muck Rock, September 24, 2014 The Private Prisons Projects takes a look at how inmate complaints are muffled by red tape FOI Requests: Grievance policies for inmates at Oklahoma...
View ArticleOklahoma City school district expands meal options for students
Source: Tim Willert, Daily Oklahoman, September 1, 2014 New leaders at Oklahoma City Public Schools are bringing dietary expertise to child nutrition department as programs expand to offer more meal...
View ArticleNew Mexico sues nursing home chain on care, staff
Source: Associated Press, December 5, 2014 New Mexico’s attorney general on Friday sued one of the nation’s largest nursing home chains over inadequate resident care, alleging that thin staffing made...
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