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«It actually kind of forces these companies to admit that they're kind of prison companies only incidentally — what they really are is real - estate companies,» Petrella said.

Not exact matches

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

And within a span of six weeks this fall, Hillary Clinton caused a drop in biotech stocks with a tweet calling for greater regulation of drug prices, then single - handedly tanked stocks of private - corrections companies when she tweeted about prison reform.

Marco Muzzo, grandson of the company's founder, the late Marco Sr., was sentenced to 10 years in prison in February 2016 for impaired driving causing death.

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

Oliver Wood, the director of three Perth - based web development and digital marketing companies, has been handed a 10 - month suspended prison sentence for using his position dishonestly to gain an advantage.

In fact, one of the judges of her competition happened to own a tech company who took Winner on as her mentor, employing her after she was released from prison.

Once she had agreed to go to prison, it seemed to me that we had a great chance of rebuilding the company.

While Jay Y. Lee's prison term was suspended earlier this month, the company remained plagued by scandal — police said the elder Lee was suspected of a separate instance of evading taxes, Reuters reported.

The company, which was started by former prison inmate Frederick Hutson in 2012, now has 23 percent of the market share of federal prisons, according to Jealous.

Did anyone think that Martha Stewart's company could fully rebound after she was found guilty of violating insider trading laws and spent several months in prison?

«As the president of the Korea Ski Association, [Lotte] Chairman Shin Dong - bin was always interested in the Winter Olympics,» the spokeswoman said, adding that Shin's recent prison sentence for bribery would not affect the company's support for the Pyeongchang Olympics.

Private prison companies have been preparing for such a moment by shifting their focus to ICE facilities, many of which are already run by for - profit entities and house immigration detainees, according to Petrella.

Despite being pushed out of the companies he founded, he used his time in prison to teach himself how to code, without the internet using textbooks and his # 2 golf pencil.

CoreCivic, one of the largest U.S. private prison companies, has shelved a proposal to build a detention facility for undocumented migrants in Indiana after a series of community protests.

The case of Tyco International Ltd's disgraced former CEO Dennis Kozlowski, who is in prison for looting the company, shows how hard it is to fire someone «for cause.»

Sounds like a worthwhile read and I tend to agree with the assertions from the book about the capacity to do evil coming from the facelessness of structure — and personally would include any structure in that — including churches, prisons, companies, and gov» ts.

Not just for construction companies but for such private enterprises as the Corrections Corporation of America, a Tennessee - based company that is leading the way in the exorbitant campaign to turn all prisons over to private enterprise.

«Back in 2009 [when the company started] they were putting people in prison for cultivating, so there was a lot of risk at that time, but there has been a huge paradigm shift,» Peterson explains.

The company also retains institutional clients, such as colleges like University of Notre Dame, hospitals, hotels and prisons.

Not pleased with the company Liston was keeping — one of his pals was 385 - pound Barney Baker, a reputed head - cracker for the Teamsters — the St. Louis police kept stopping Liston, on sight and without cause, until, on May 5, 1956, 3 1/2 years after his release from prison, Liston assaulted a St. Louis policeman, took his gun, left the cop lying in an alley and hid the weapon at a sister's house.

Yep, the guy who lost his Jordan F1 drive in 1991 after a prison sentence and started the career of the legendary Michael Schumacher now runs a company F1 fans will probably be familiar with.

There is a litany of serious flaws in several of the 58 sections of the bill, and here are some of them: the bill would compel registration of NGOs (including those already registered under the Companies and Allied Matters Act); heavily criminalize non-compliance with its provisions (up to 18 months in prison); ensure full executive control over the licensing, funding and supervision of operations of NGOs through a Board appointed by the president and dominated by political representatives.

On Tuesday, a federal high court in Lagos had remanded him in prison alongside former Minister for Finance, Nenandi Usman, Mr. Danjuma Yusuf and a company, Joint Trust Nigeria Limited, on alleged money laundering to the tune of N4.9 billion.

Perverse economic incentives: Incarceration has become big business, from prison unions protecting lucrative jobs, to companies being given monopolies within the prison system (Until the FCC stepped in, there were instances of charging over $ 1 a minute for calls).

If Cohen was instead lobbying on behalf of any of these companies by contacting government officials, including Trump, on their behalf, he may have violated federal lobbying registration laws, which punish knowing and corrupt violations with up to five years in prison.

Paying private companies to run prisons, with more cash for those firms which achieve reduced reoffending rates, will now become the centrepiece of the government's approach.

And republicans, in addition, are concerned about many other issues: the discrimination faced by the LGBT community, consumers at the mercy of retailers or companies, Internet users at the mercy of providers or regulatory states, children at the mercy of their parents or teachers, the elder at the mercy of younger disrespectful citizens, the kid being bullied by a classmate at school, the prisoner abused by his jail mates or by the prison authorities, etc..

Comptroller Scott Stringer says he is pulling New York City's pension fund out of companies that provide private prison services.

One of the flagship policies of the last few months of the coalition government was the introduction of an additional compulsory one year supervision by the private companies for anyone sentenced to prison for a short period.

A Manhattan judge sentenced the head of a mobile - phone aggregation company to 10 years in prison for a multimillion - dollar fraud scheme in which consumers were charged for unsolicited text messages containing horoscopes, trivia and celebrity gossip.

Kennedy's concern is that Level 1 sex offenders could drive for the companies seven years after a conviction or the end of a prison sentence under existing state law.

Private prison companies also operate private immigration detention centers, which house as many as 65 percent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, and it is expected that the White House will expand the use of those prisons and private detention facilities to house immigrants it intends to hold and deport.

Stringer then directed investment managers to liquidate all investments in companies that derive at least 20 percent of their revenue from private prisons, including both direct investments and stock owned as part of an index fund.

Corrections Corporation of America, the largest and most powerful private prison company in the nation, lost four prison contracts in the past month after extensive reports of abuse, neglect, and even fraud within their operations.

-- A group of 30 Criminal justice advocacy groups are pressuring the City Council to end all programs that allow private companies to profit off of prisons

The G4S Olympics debacle, when the army had to step in and provide additional security staff, added to the concerns about the capability of private companies to run prisons safely.

Some items which ordinarily should be state matters like police, prisons, stamp duties, taxation of incomes, profits and capital gains, regulation of tourist traffic, registration of business names, incorporation of companies, traffic on federal truck roads passing through states, trade, commerce and census among others were transferred from the Concurrent to the Exclusive List.

The NYC Department of Education is still paying a shady Long Island tech firm, Custom Computer Specialists — even though it was advised to avoid the company after a scandal that sent a consultant to prison.

Kushner Companies was founded by Charles Kushner, who spent 14 months in federal prison after being convicted in 2005 of tax evasion and election fraud.

Cor's «continued existence as a company and legal entity - and its ability to develop the Inner Harbor property - is uncertain in light of, among other things, its two primary officers facing the prospect of potentially lengthy federal prison sentences,» city lawyers wrote in legal papers filed Tuesday.

The production company filming «Escape at Dannemora,» a miniseries directed by actor Ben Stiller about the 2015 prison escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat, has chosen Lyons Road as its next locale.

The decision will, however, end the company's qualms about the use of its product by prisons, which is something the company has long opposed.

Georgiev, who had been working for a company on the other side of the country, had been released a few months earlier after having spent four years in prison, but the other medical workers, later dubbed the Tripoli Six, were waiting for death by firing squad.

Most of the company's customers are hotels and prisons, and the machine will remove 95 per cent of their stains.

One American site, in particular, called Prison Penpals, has a monthly list of more than 100 inmates looking for company.

When America's largest private prison company opened a 2,000 - bed facility in a barren stretch of the Mojave Desert in southeastern California in

It's also true that, when Ellsberg leaked another copy of the documents to one of Bradlee's reporters, the Post's lawyers and financial advisers urged the publisher, Katharine Graham, not to print them, warning her that investors could pull out their money — the paper's company had just gone public — and that Nixon's Justice Department could throw her and Bradlee in prison.

Iron Man is able to beat him — but Whiplash is helped out of prison by Starks» chief arms - producing rival, Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), who has been working on an Iron Man - style suit for his own company.

Through a series of ingenious plays, Pym manages to get his Ant Suit into the hands of resourceful (but jobless) cat burglar Scott Lang (Rudd, They Came Together), recently released from prison for theft on a corporate scale, though he did it to return money the company reportedly bilked form its customers.