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Glamorgan have made a double swoop with the signings of Tom Helm and Tom Lancefield.
Seamer Helm, a previous member of England Potential Performance Programme squads, joins on a month-long loan from Middlesex and will be available for LV= County Championship and NatWest T20 Blast fixtures during his temporary stay at the SWALEC Stadium.
Nineteen-year-old Helm, a graduate of the Middlesex Academy, claimed five wickets on his first-class bow against Yorkshire at Headingley last season and has also featured in two List A matches for his parent club.
Helm could make his Glamorgan debut in the home Division Two encounter against Worcestershire from tomorrow.
Glamorgan chief executive and director of cricket Hugh Morris said: "I've been aware of the progress Tom Helm has made in recent years and his development work with the EPPP.
"I've been getting encouraging reports on him regularly and he's one of the brightest fast bowling talents in the country.
"Clearly with an international calibre bowling attack at Middlesex, his chances there have been limited, but we can provide him with an opportunity and we're thankful to Angus Fraser and Middlesex CCC for allowing us to have Tom for the next month."
Meanwhile, left-handed batsman Lancefield has penned a one-year contract with the Welsh county.
The 23-year-old former Surrey player, who made his first-class debut in 2010, represented Glamorgan's second XI and the Unicorns last summer following his release from the Kia Oval.


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Hi all,
I came across UNTK in my quest of hunting for bargains (beaten down, hated, neglected stocks in the trashcan). A very very leveraged situation.
Few questions I had:
1. Is there no backlog for Fulfillment segment?
2. What advantages does UNTK have compared to Dycon Inc, MasTec Inc, Multiband Corp?
3. What happens if litigation costs (incl settlements) exceed insurance reserves? BTW their casualty insurance expires in Sept 2013.
4. Pinnacle contingent consideration was paid, but not earned, hence company pursuing repayment - of some $1.9M, correct?
5. AT&T contributed ~$74M of revenue in 2012 and it'll be $21M lower in 2013, so $53M. Will gross margin remain same?
6. They say "additional fees (some of which are noncash) that will impact our future liquidity" - why do noncash charges impact liquidity?
Enterprise Value as of Dec 31, 2012:
Company has $161M of LT debt & capital lease obligations + $28M operating lease obligations + $6M Skylink Earnout = $200M obligations. Add that to $31M of market cap and we get $230M enterprise value.
Adjusted EBITDA for 2012 was ~$40M. That puts EV/EBITDA at 5.75
Let's see how they performed in 2013. I think lower interest rates (through re-fi) would help a lot. The silver lining I see here is that lenders don't want UNTK to go under.
Hello Propitiousaugury,
Welcome to the Unitek message board.
I will let someone more knowledgeable than me answer the questions, but I will pipe in that I think that question 4 is interesting (I am in favor of the company reclaiming everything it can, getting money from whoever defrauded them and from the auditors --- in fact, I am also in favor of getting refunds from the BoD members who were on the audit committee and apparently were not completely up to par -- well, actually, I think they should do the honorable thing and volunteer to return the money and equity they have received, but somehow I don't see that happening.)
The issue of the refund from the Pinnacle sellers is impossible to address, I think. I mean, it is supposedly fraud, so there are a number of questions: Who were the principals behind the fraud, do you have to prove fraud before you can claim a refund, was there some fraud before the merger, and were the principals in selling the company involved in the fraud (and, if so, all or some?)
I think the starting point is to withhold the pending payments. Beyond that it gets really sticky, really quickly.
Personally, if there are fraud issues related to the Pinnacle principals, I don't see why the company should not go back and reclaim a substantial amount (for instance, the purchase agreement was, I think, changed to swap equities for cash last year, and, so, to my mind, the only question is if that leaves that cash payout open to a claim for re-claw.)
Hmmm... I am not sure that this was clear. The bottom line is that I believe that there may be potential for far more than $1.9 million (plus costs) if a link can be made between the fraud at Unitek and the Pinnacle sellers, but it would be a long a hard slog to get there.


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Private prison
A private prison or for-profit prison is a place in which individuals are physically confined or incarcerated by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies typically enter into contractual agreements with governments that commit prisoners and then pay a per diem or monthly rate, either for each prisoner in the facility, or for each place available, whether occupied or not. Such contracts may be for the operation only of a facility, or for design, construction and operation.
- 1 In the United Kingdom
- 2 In Australia
- 3 In the United States
- 3.1 Early history
- 3.2 Development
- 3.3 Escape of Arizona Murderers
- 3.4 Cost–benefit analysis
- 3.5 Costs
- 3.6 Inadequacies including staff training
- 3.7 Bureaucratic corruption scandals
- 3.8 Judicial corruption scandal
- 3.9 Lobbying
- 3.10 Opposition
- 3.11 Attempts to limit privatization and increase oversight
- 4 In Canada
- 5 Attempt to establish private prisons in Israel
- 6 Media coverage in the United States
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 Further reading
- 10 External links
In the United Kingdom[edit]
In early 2012, Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform said Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons encountered an almost nine-fold rise in restraint used in the previous year at Ashfield Young Offenders Institution, which holds 15 to 18-year-old. She cited "many incidents of strip searching children unnecessarily". Force had been used almost 150 times a month compared to 17 times monthly the prior year, recalling it had "chilling echoes" of circumstances in the choking death of a 15-year-old at Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre after restraints had been applied. Frequent use of force followed failure of wards to obey staff instructions. Three years earlier the institution recorded more than 600 attacks on inmates in one year - the highest number of every jail, including adults, in the country. Crook claimed "This jail has a history of failing children and the public." Managers blamed the increase was due to better reporting of the use of restraints. The institution had been half full during the previous unannounced inspection in 2010. The chief inspector of prisons noted "some staff lacked confidence in challenging poor behaviour." The director of the prison and the YOI admitted there is "room for improvement."[1]
In the modern era, the United Kingdom was the first European country to use for-profit prisons. Wolds Prison opened as the first privately managed prison in the UK in 1992. As of 2016 there are now 14 privately run prisons in England and Wales and two in Scotland, accommodating about 15% of the UK prison population. These are:
- HM Prison Altcourse (owned and operated by G4S)
- HM Prison Addiewell (Scotland; Sodexo Justice Services)
- HM Prison Ashfield (Serco)
- HM Prison Birmingham (G4S)
- HM Prison Bronzefield (Sodexo)
- HM Prison Doncaster (Serco)
- HM Prison Dovegate (Serco)
- HM Prison Forest Bank (Sodexo)
- HM Prison Kilmarnock (Scotland; operated by Serco)
- HM Prison Lowdham Grange (Serco)
- HM Prison Northumberland (new name for the merged HM Prison Castington and HM Prison Acklington, as of 2011; operated by Sodexo)[2]
- HM Prison Oakwood (G4S)
- HM Prison Parc (G4S)
- HM Prison Peterborough (Sodexo)
- HM Prison Rye Hill (G4S)
- HM Prison Thameside (Serco)
- HM Prison Wolds (G4S)
In addition, a number of the U.K.'s Immigration Removal Centres are privately operated, including the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, and Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre.
In the UK there are 3 ways in which a private company may take on management of a prison: 1) A prison is built by the public sector and then the operating contract is competed. 2) Companies compete to finance, design, build and run a new prison under the private finance initiative. Most prisons in the UK are of this kind, although the use of PFI now appears to have been abandoned. 3) A prison already operated by the public sector prison service may be contracted out after competition ('market testing').
Prisons may be re-competed at the end of the contract. The public sector Prison Service may bid, and has done so successfully on three occasions. Increasingly, a range of services within all prisons, whether public or privately run, are contracted out on a regional basis: this includes works and FM services, and rehabilitation programmes.
Following release of an extremely critical report regarding a G4S-operated jail, the Labor party's shadow justice secretary said they would be inclined to take control of for-profit prisons if the industry competitors had not met deadlines imposed upon them. Sadiq Khan's response stressed the need for better contracting, to include liquidated damages provisions. The chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick, recommended the crafting of a takeover contingency plan. "It's not delivering what the public should expect of the millions being paid to G4S to run it." Khan said, " I see no difference whether the underperformance is in the public, private or voluntary sector... We shouldn't tolerate mediocrity in the running of our prisons." Khan continued: "We can't go on with scandal after scandal, where the public's money is being squandered and the quality of what's delivered isn't up to scratch. The government is too reliant on a cosy group of big companies. The public are rightly getting fed up to the back teeth of big companies making huge profits out of the taxpayer, which smacks to them of rewards for failure." [3]
In 2007 the new Scottish National Party Government in Scotland announced that it was opposed to privately run prisons and would not let any more contracts.[4] Since then new prisons in Scotland have been built and run by the public sector. The last contract let in England and Wales was for Northumberland Prison, which transferred from the public sector to Sodexo in 2013. The most recent new prison to be built in England and Wales, at Wrexham (opening in 2017), was given to the public sector to operate without any competition. It is not yet clear whether, or how, the 9 new prisons announced by Michael Gove, Justice Secretary, on 9 November 2015, to replace old Victorian jails in city centres, will be competed.[5]
Governance and accountability[edit]
Privately run prisons are run under contracts which set out the standards that must be met, which in many respects mirror those in publicly run prisons. However in the United States, these contractual provisions for liquidated damages and other responses to breaches are rarely enforced. Payments may be deducted for poor performance against the contract, but rarely are. Government monitors ("controllers") work permanently within each privately managed prison to check on conditions and treatment of prisoners but they have tended to be co-opted or ineffectual. The framework for regulation and accountability is much the same for privately run prisons as for publicly run ones. In Great Britain, they are subject to unannounced inspection by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, to monitoring by local Independent Monitoring Boards and prisoner complaints are dealt with by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman.
In Australia[edit]
Australia was one of the first countries to use private prisons, starting with NSW June in 1993.[citation needed]
In the United States[edit]
Early history[edit]
The privatization of prisons can be traced to the contracting out of confinement and care of prisoners after the American Revolution. Deprived of the ability to ship criminals and undesirables to the Colonies, Great Britain began placing them on hulks (used as prison ships) moored in English ports.[6]
The partial transfer of San Quentin prison administration from private to public did not mark the end of privatization. The next phase began with the Reconstruction Period (1865–1876) in the south, after the end of the Civil War. Plantations and businessmen needed to find replacements for the labor force once their slaves had been freed. Beginning in 1868, convict leases were issued to private parties to supplement their workforce.[7][8] This system remained in place until the early 20th century.
Federal and state governments have a long history of contracting out specific services to private firms, including medical services, food preparation, vocational training, and inmate transportation. The 1980s, though, ushered in a new era of prison privatization. With a burgeoning prison population resulting from the War on Drugs and increased use of incarceration, prison overcrowding and rising costs became increasingly problematic for local, state, and federal governments. In response to this expanding criminal justice system, private business interests saw an opportunity for expansion, and consequently, private-sector involvement in prisons moved from the simple contracting of services to contracting for the complete management and operation of entire prisons.[9]
The modern private prison business first emerged and established itself publicly in 1984 when the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) was awarded a contract to take over a facility in Hamilton County, Tennessee. This marked the first time that any government in the country had contracted out the complete operation of a jail to a private operator.[10] The following year, CCA gained further public attention when it offered to take over the entire state prison system of Tennessee for $200 million. The bid was ultimately defeated due to strong opposition from public employees and the skepticism of the state legislature.[11] Despite that initial defeat, CCA since then has successfully expanded, as have other for-profit prison companies.
The US Department of Justice statistics show that, as of 2013, there were 133,000 state and federal prisoners housed in privately owned prisons in the US, constituting 8.4% of the overall U.S. prison population.[12] Broken down to prison type, 19.1% of the federal prison population in the United States is housed in private prisons and 6.8% of the U.S. state prison population is housed in private prisons.[12] While 2013 represents a slight decline in private prison population over 2012, the overall trend over the past decade has been a slow increase [12] Companies operating such facilities include the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the GEO Group, Inc. (formerly known as Wackenhut Securities), Management and Training Corporation (MTC), and Community Education Centers. In the past two decades CCA has seen its profits increase by more than 500 percent.[13] The prison industry as a whole took in over $5 billion in revenue in 2011.[14]
According to journalist Matt Taibbi, Wall Street banks took notice of this influx of cash, and are now some of the prison industry's biggest investors. Wells Fargo has around 100 million invested in GEO Group and 6 million in CCA. Other major investors include Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, General Electric and The Vanguard Group. CCA's share price went from a dollar in 2000 to $34.34 in 2013.[14] Sociologist John L. Campbell and activist and journalist Chris Hedges respectively assert that prisons in the United States have become a "lucrative" and "hugely profitable" business.[15][16]
In June 2013, students at Columbia University discovered that the institution owned $8 million worth of CCA stock. Less than a year later the student group Columbia Prison Divest was formed and delivered a letter to the president of the University demanding total divestment from CCA and full disclosure of future investments.[17] By June 2015, the board of trustees at Columbia University voted to divest from the private prison industry.[18]
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) has a capacity of more than 80,000 beds in 65 correctional facilities. The GEO Group operates 57 facilities with a capacity of 49,000 offender beds.[19] The company owns or runs more than 100 properties that operate more than 73,000 beds in sites across the world.[20]
Most privately run facilities are located in the southern and western portions of the United States and include both state and federal offenders.[21] For example, Pecos, Texas is the site of the largest private prison in the world, the Reeves County Detention Complex, operated by the GEO Group.[22] It has a capacity of 3,763 prisoners in its three sub-complexes,[23]
Private prison firms, reacting to reductions in prison populations, are increasingly looking away from mere incarceration and are seeking to maintain profitability by expanding into new markets previously served by non-profit behavioral health and treatment-oriented agencies, including prison medical care, forensic mental hospitals, civil commitment centers, halfway houses and home arrest.[24][25][26]
A 2016 report by the U.S. Department of Justice asserts that privately operated federal facilities are less safe, less secure and more punitive than other federal prisons.[27] Shortly thereafter, the DoJ announced it will stop using private prisons.[28]
Escape of Arizona Murderers[edit]
In the wake of the escape of three murderers from the minimum/medium security Kingman Prison, Arizona operated by Management and Training Corporation (MTC), and its gruesome aftermath, Arizona Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard said "I believe a big part of our problem is that the very violent inmates, like the three that escaped, ended up getting reclassified [as a lower risk] quickly and sent to private prisons that were just not up to the job".[29] The private prison had inadequate patrols and prisoner movement, excessive false alarms, a lax culture, and inconsistencies in visitor screening procedures.[30]
One escaping murderer, Daniel Renwick, immediately absconded with the intended getaway vehicle, abandoning his companions outside the prison. He was involved in a shootout in Rifle, Colorado, about 30 hours after the prison break, and was captured by a Garfield County deputy and Rifle police.[31] Though he still "owed" Arizona 32 years on his sentence, he was sentenced to sixty years to be served first in Colorado.[32]
In the course of evading pursuers, the remaining two escapees and their accomplice, Casslyn Welch, kidnapped and hijacked vacationing Oklahomans Gary and Linda Haas in New Mexico. The couple was soon murdered by the ringleader, John McCluskey. The extended family of the murdered couple sued the state of Arizona, as well as Dominion, a corporation based in Edmond, Oklahoma, that spec-built the prison, and MTC, the corporation that managed it, for $40 million.[33][34] The last escapees and their accomplice were soon captured. Tracy Province, a lifer, was apprehended in Wyoming on August 9. The final pair were arrested on August 19, 20 days after the jailbreak, upon their return to Arizona. All three were first convicted of the escapes, initial hijacking, kidnappings and robberies in Kingman, Arizona. Then they were charged with the same crimes plus murder in New Mexico. John McCluskey, the ringleader, and his accomplice, Casslyn Welch, were also alleged to have committed an armed robbery in Arkansas.[35] The three were eventually held on federal murder charges in New Mexico. McCluskey was tried on death penalty charges but after five months of court proceedings, his jury gave him life imprisonment on December 11, 2013. Estimates of the costs of the nationwide searches as well as the apprehensions, prosecutions and subsequent imprisonment in the three states greatly exceed a million dollars.[36]
Cost–benefit analysis[edit]
Studies, some partially industry-funded, often conclude that states can save money by using for-profit prisons. However, academic or state-funded studies have found that private prisons tend to keep more low-cost inmates and send others back to state-run prisons.[37]
Proponents of privately run prisons contend that cost-savings and efficiency of operation place private prisons at an advantage over public prisons and support the argument for privatization, but some research casts doubt on the validity of these arguments, as evidence has shown that private prisons are neither demonstrably more cost-effective, nor more efficient than public prisons.[9] An evaluation of 24 different studies on cost-effectiveness revealed that, at best, results of the question are inconclusive and, at worst, there is no difference in cost-effectiveness.[38]
A study by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics found that the cost-savings promised by private prisons "have simply not materialized".[39] Some research has concluded that for-profit prisons cost more than public prisons.[40] Furthermore, cost estimates from privatization advocates may be misleading, because private facilities often refuse to accept inmates that cost the most to house. A 2001 study concluded that a pattern of sending less expensive inmates to privately run facilities artificially inflated cost savings.[41] A 2005 study found that Arizona's public facilities were seven times more likely to house violent offenders and three times more likely to house those convicted of more serious offenses.[42] A 2011 report by the American Civil Liberties Union point out that private prisons are more costly, more violent and less accountable than public prisons, and are actually a major contributor to increased mass incarceration.[43] This is most apparent in Louisiana, which has the highest incarceration rate in the world and houses the majority of its inmates in for-profit facilities.[44] Marie Gottschalk, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that the prison industry "engages in a lot of cherry-picking and cost-shifting to maintain the illusion that the private sector does it better for less." In fact, she notes that studies generally show that private facilities are more dangerous for both correctional officers and inmates than their public counterparts as a result cost-cutting measures, such as spending less on training for correctional officers (and paying them lower wages) and providing only the most basic medical care for inmates.[45]
A 2014 study by a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley shows that minorities make up a greater percentage of inmates at private prisons than in their public counterparts, largely because minorities are cheaper to incarcerate. According to the study, for-profit prison operators, in particular CCA and GEO Group, accumulate these low-cost inmates "through explicit and implicit exemptions written into contracts between these private prison management companies and state departments of correction".[46]
Inadequacies including staff training[edit]
Evidence suggests that lower staffing levels and training at private facilities may lead to increases in the incidence of violence and escapes. A nationwide study found that assaults on guards by inmates were 49 percent more frequent in private prisons than in government-run prisons. The same study revealed that assaults on fellow inmates were 65 percent more frequent in private prisons.[47]
An example of private prisons' inadequate staff training leading to jail violence was reported by two Bloomberg News journalists, Margaret Newkirk and William Selway in Mississippi regarding the now-closed Walnut Grove Correctional Facility. According to the journalists, The ratio of staff to prisoners in this prison was only 1 to 120. In a bloody riot in this prison, six inmates were rushed to the hospital, including one with permanent brain damage. During the riot, the staff of the prison did not respond but waited until the melee ended, because prisoners outnumbered staff by a ration of 60-1. The lack of well-trained staff does not only lead to violence but also corruption. According to a former prisoner in this prison, the correction officers are also in charge of the smuggling in the prison. To make more money, they can provide prisoners everything, including weapons.[48] Law enforcement investigations led to the exposure a far wider web of corruption.
Bureaucratic corruption scandals[edit]
At the Walnut Grove C.F., intense corruption was involved in the construction and operation of, and subcontracting for medical, commissary and other services. After exposure of the rape of a female transitional center prisoner by the mayor, who also served as a warden, a bribery scheme was uncovered. It had paid millions to the corrupt Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps and his conduits. Ten additional officials and consultants, including three former state legislators (two Republicans and one Democrat), were indicted in the Department of Justice's Operation Mississippi Hustle prosecution.
Prior to the Mississippi investigations and prosecutions, a similar investigation begun in 2003, dubbed Operation Polar Pen, exposed a wide ranging bribery scheme of what legislative members themselves called the "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC). It initially involved for-profit corrections, then extended to include fisheries management and oil industry taxation. At least fifteen targets of the investigation, including ten sitting or former elected officials, the governor's chief of staff, and four lobbyists were considered for possible prosecution, and a dozen were indicted. Investigation of a Democratic state senator found nothing amiss, but ten indictments were issued that included six Republican state legislators, two halfway house lobbyists, two very wealthy contractors and the U.S. Senator, Ted Stevens, who were all eventually convicted. The seven felony convictions against Stevens were overturned, as were verdicts involving three other legislators and the governor's Chief of Staff, one directly due to the Supreme Court's overturning part of the existing "Honest services" statute, in the case of Representative Bruce Weyhrauch. Weyhrauch pleaded guilty to a state misdemeanor. Others also had their verdicts overturned, in part because the prosecution failed to completely disclose exculpatory evidence to their defense, but three of those also pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Though they were implicated, the Department of Justice also declined to prosecute a former state senator and the U.S. Congressman, Don Young, who spent over a million dollars on his defense, though he was never indicted.
Judicial corruption scandal[edit]
In the kids for cash scandal, Mid-Atlantic Youth Services Corp, a private prison company which runs juvenile facilities, was found guilty of paying two judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, $2.8 million to send 2,000 children to their prisons for such crimes as trespassing in vacant buildings and stealing DVDs from Wal-Mart.[49][50]
The influence of the for-profit prison industry on the government has been described as the prison–industrial complex.[51][52][53][54]
CCA, MTC and The GEO Group have been members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a Washington, D.C.-based public policy organization that develops model legislation that advances free-market principles such as privatization. Under their Criminal Justice Task Force, ALEC has developed model bills which State legislators can then consult when proposing "tough on crime" initiatives including "Truth in Sentencing" and "Three Strikes" laws.[55] By funding and participating in ALEC's Criminal Justice Task Forces, critics argue, private prison companies influence legislation for tougher, longer sentences.[56] Writing in Governing magazine in 2003, Alan Greenblatt states:
ALEC has been a major force behind both privatizing state prison space and keeping prisons filled. It put forward bills providing for mandatory minimum sentences and three-strikes sentencing requirements. About 40 states passed versions of ALEC's Truth in Sentencing model bill, which requires prisoners convicted of violent crimes to serve most of their sentences without chance of parole.[57]
According to a 2010 report by NPR, ALEC arranged meetings between the Corrections Corporation of America and Arizona's state legislators such as Russell Pearce at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. to write Arizona SB 1070, which would keep CCA's immigrant detention centers stuffed with detainees.[58][59]
CCA and GEO have both engaged in state initiatives to increase sentences for offenders and to create new crimes, including, CCA helping to finance Proposition 6 in California in 2008 and GEO lobbying for Jessica's Law[60] in Kansas in 2006. In 2012, The CCA sent a letter to 48 states offering to buy public prisons in exchange for a promise to keep the prisons at 90% occupancy for 20 years.[61][62] States that sign such contracts with prison companies must reimburse them for beds that go unused; in 2011, Arizona agreed to pay Management & Training Corporation $3 million for empty beds when a 97 percent quota wasn't met.[63]
Many organizations have called for a moratorium on construction of private prisons, or for their outright abolition.[64] The religious denominations Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and United Methodist Church have also joined the call, as well as the Catholic Bishops of the South organization.[65]
As of 2013, there has been a modest pushback against the private prison industry, with protests forcing GEO Group to withdraw its $6 million offer for naming rights of FAU Stadium, and Kentucky allowing its contract with the CCA to expire, ending three decades of allowing for-profit companies to operate prisons in that state.[66] In 2014, Idaho will be taking over the operation of the Idaho Correctional Center from the CCA, which has been the subject of a plethora of lawsuits alleging rampant violence, understaffing, gang activity and contract fraud. Idaho governor Butch Otter said "In recognition of what's happened, what's happening, it's necessary. It's the right thing to do. It's disappointing because I am a champion of privatization."[67]
In the final quarter of 2013, Scopia Capital Management, DSM North America, and Amica Mutual Insurance divested around $60 million from CCA and GEO Group.[68] In a Color of Change press release, DSM North America President Hugh Welsh said:
In accordance with the principles of the UN Global Compact, with respect to the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights, the pension fund has divested from the for-profit prison industry. Investment in private prisons and support for the industry is financially unsound, and divestment was the right thing to do for our clients, shareholders, and the country as a whole.[68]
Attempts to limit privatization and increase oversight[edit]
Some U.S. states have imposed bans, population limits, and strict operational guidelines on private prisons:
- Banning privatization of state and local facilities—Illinois in 1990 (Private Correctional Facility Moratorium Act), and New York in 2000, enacted laws that ban the privatization of prisons, correctional facilities and any services related to their operation. Louisiana enacted a moratorium on private prisons in 2001.
- Banning speculative private prison construction—For-profit prison companies have built new prisons before they were awarded privatization contracts in order to lure state contract approval. In 2001, Wisconsin's joint budget committee recommended language to ban all future speculative prison construction in the state. Such anticipatory building dates back to at least 1997, when Corrections Corporation of America built a 2,000-bed facility in California at a cost of $80–100 million with no contract from the California Department of Corrections; a CCA official was quoted as saying, "If we build it, they will come".[69]
- Banning exportation and importation of prisoners—To ensure that the state retains control over the quality and security of correctional facilities, North Dakota passed a bill in 2001 that banned the export of Class A and AA felons outside the state. Similarly, Oregon allowed an existing exportation law to sunset in 2001, effectively banning the export of prisoners. Several states have considered banning the importation of prisoners to private facilities.
- Requiring standards comparable to state prisons—New Mexico enacted legislation that transfers supervision of private prisons to the state Secretary of Corrections, ensuring that private prisons meet the same standards as public facilities. In 2001, Nebraska legislation that requires private prisons to meet public prison standards was overwhelmingly approved by the legislature, but pocket-vetoed by the governor.[citation needed] Oklahoma passed a law in 2005 that requires private prisons to have emergency plans in place and mandates state notification of any safety incidents.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced its intent to end for-profit prison contracts.
- Terminating federal contracts. On August 18, 2016, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates announced that the Justice Department intended to end its Bureau of Prisons contracts with for-profit prison operators, because it concluded "...the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services..." than the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In response, Issa Arnita, the spokesperson for the third largest U.S. for-profit prison operator Management and Training Corporation, said it was "disappointed" to learn about the DOJ's decision. "If the DOJ's decision to end the use of contract prisons were based solely on declining inmate populations, there may be some justification, but to base this decision on cost, safety and security, and programming is wrong."[70] In a memorandum, Yates continued, for-profit "...prisons served an important role during a difficult period, but time has shown that they compare poorly to our own Bureau facilities. They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs; and as noted in a recent report by the Department's Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security. The rehabilitative services that the Bureau provides, such as educational programs and job training, have proved difficult to replicate and outsource and these services are essential to reducing recidivism and improving public safety."[71]
In Canada[edit]
There have only been two private detention facilities in Canada to date, and both reverted to government control.
The only private prison in Canada was the maximum-security Central North Correctional Centre, Penetanguishene, Ontario, operated by the U.S.-based Management and Training Corporation from its opening in 2001 through the end of its first contract period in 2006. The contract was held by the Ontario provincial Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. A government comparison between the Central North "super-jail" and a nearly identical facility found that the publicly run prison had measurably better outcomes.[72]
Additionally the GEO Group built the New Brunswick Miramichi Youth Detention Center under contract with the provincial Department of Public Safety, then had its contract ended in the 1990s after public protests.[73]
As of mid-2012, private prison companies continued to lobby the Correctional Service of Canada for contract business.[74]
Attempt to establish private prisons in Israel[edit]
In 2004, the Israeli Knesset passed a law permitting the establishment of private prisons in Israel. The Israeli government's motivation was to save money by transferring prisoners to facilities managed by a private firm. The state would pay the franchisee $50 per day for each inmate, sparing itself the cost of building new prisons and expanding the staff of the Israel Prison Service. In 2005, the human rights department of the Academic College of Law in Ramat Gan filed a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court challenging the law. The petition relied on two arguments. First, it said, transferring prison powers to private hands would violate the prisoners' fundamental human rights to liberty and dignity. Secondly, a private organization always aims to maximize profit, and would therefore seek to cut costs by, for instance, skimping on prison facilities and paying its guards poorly, thus further undermining the prisoners' rights. As the case awaited decision, the first prison was built by the concessionaire, Lev Leviev's Africa Israel Investments, a facility near Beersheba designed to accommodate 2,000 inmates.
In November 2009, an expanded panel of 9 judges of the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that privately run prisons are unconstitutional, finding that for the State to transfer authority for managing the prison to a private contractor whose aim is monetary profit would severely violate the prisoners' basic human rights to dignity and freedom. Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, wrote that "Israel's basic legal principles hold that the right to use force in general, and the right to enforce criminal law by putting people behind bars in particular, is one of the most fundamental and one of the most invasive powers in the state's jurisdiction. Thus when the power to incarcerate is transferred to a private corporation whose purpose is making money, the act of depriving a person of [their] liberty loses much of its legitimacy. Because of this loss of legitimacy, the violation of the prisoner's right to liberty goes beyond the violation entailed in the incarceration itself."[75]
Media coverage in the United States[edit]
- Kids for cash scandal was featured in Capitalism: A Love Story, the 2009 documentary by Michael Moore.[76]
- A full-length documentary covering the kids for cash scandal entitled Kids for Cash was released in February 2014.[77]
- Kids for Cash scandal has also led to several portrayals in fictional works. Both the Law & Order: SVU episode "Crush" and an episode of The Good Wife featured corrupt judges sending children to private detention centers. An episode of Cold Case called "Jurisprudence" is loosely based on this event.[78][79][80]
- Season 3 of Orange Is the New Black portrays the transformation of the prison from federally owned to a for-profit.
See also[edit]
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- ^ Cooper, Robert (27 January 2015). "HMP Northumberland: Inside the 'powder keg' prison". BBC. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ^ Failing private prisons to be renationalized says Labour, The Guardian, Nicholas Watt, Jan 2, 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ Hélène Mulholland. "Scottish Executive scraps private prison plan". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Prison building revolution announced by Chancellor and Justice Secretary". Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks (2001)
- ^ Todd, W. (2005). "Convict Lease System". In The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 1, 2006.
- ^ Zito, M. (December 2003). Prison Privatization: Past and Present. Retrieved October 1, 2006, from the International Foundation for Protection Officers Web site: http://www.ifpo.org/articlebank/prison_privatization.html
- ^ a b The Sentencing Project, "Prison Privatization and the Use of Incarceration" (2004)
- ^ Good Jobs First, " Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons", October 2001, p. 2.
- ^ Eric Bates, "Private Prisons," The Nation, Jan. 5, 1998, p. 13.
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- ^ George Joseph (June 27, 2015). The New Divestment Movement. Jacobin. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
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- ^ Bishop, Greg (19 February 2013). "A Company That Runs Prisons Will Have Its Name on a Stadium". The New York Times.
- ^ Schmalleger, F., & Smykla, J. (2011,2007, 2005, 2002). Corrections in the 21st Century. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- ^ "Private Prisons, Public Pain". Fort Worth Weekly. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ http://www.geogroup.com/documents/geo_2012_annual_report.pdf page 12
- ^ The Treatment Industrial Complex: How For-Profit Prison Corporations are Undermining Efforts to Treat and Rehabilitate Prisoners for Corporate Gain. American Friends Service Committee, November 2014.
- ^ Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg (February 24, 2015). "Bipartisan" Criminal Justice Reform: A Misguided Merger. Truthout. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
- ^ Sarah Stillman (June 23, 2014). Get Out of Jail, Inc. The New Yorker. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
- ^ Private federal prisons more dangerous, damning DoJ investigation reveals. The Guardian. August 12, 2016.
- ^ Justice Department Will Stop the Use of Private Prisons. Time. August 18, 2016.
- ^ D. M. Levine (August 18, 2010). "What's costlier than a government run prison? A private one". Fortune.
- ^ Dru Stevenson (10 November 2011). "A Corporate Perspective of Prison Privatization".
- ^ Shrull, Dale (August 2, 2010). "Escaped Arizona inmate nabbed in Rifle". Glenwood Springs Post Independent. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ^ Gardner, John (April 23, 2011). "Ariz. escapee sentenced to 60 years in prison". Glenwood Springs Post Independent. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ^ J. J. Hensely (18 March 2011). "Family of Couple Killed by Arizona Inmates Files Lawsuit Against State". AZCentral.com. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ^ "The Family of Gary and Linda Haas Filed a Lawsuit Today Against MTC, the State/ADC and Dominion Asset Services, LLC". PRWEB.
- ^ J. J. Hensley and Ginger Rough (January 30, 2011). "Kingman Prison Still Under Scrutiny". AzCentral.com.
- ^ "Pursuing Death Penalty is Big Waste of Resources", Albuquerque Journal, Barbara Mandel, 22 December 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ Richard A. Oppel, Jr. (May 18, 2011). "Private Prisons Found to Offer Little in Savings". New York Times.
- ^ Maahs, J.; Pratt, T. (1999). "Are Private Prisons More Cost-Effective Than Public Prisons? A Meta-Analysis of Evaluation Research Studies". Crime & Delinquency. 45 (3): 358–371.
- ^ Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2004", April 2005. http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=843[not in citation given]
- ^ Dennis Cunningham, "Projected FY 2000 Cost of DOC Operated Medium Security Beds Compared to Private Prison Contracts", 4th Annual Privatizing Correctional Facilities Conference, September 24, 1999.
- ^ Policy Matters Ohio, "Selective Celling: Inmate Population in Ohio's Private Prisons," May 2001.
- ^ Kevin Pranis, "Cost-Saving or Cost-Shifting—The Fiscal Impact of Prison Privatization in Arizona", Private Corrections Institute, Inc., February 2005.
- ^ Shapiro, David. "Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration" (PDF). American Civil Liberties Union. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ^ Chang, Cindy (29 May 2012). "Louisiana is the world's prison capital". The Times-Picayune. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ^ Marie Gottschalk. Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton University Press, 2014. p. 70
- ^ Holland, Joshua (7 February 2014). "Higher Profits Explain Why There Are More People of Color in Private Prisons". Moyers & Company. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ James Austin and Garry Coventry, "Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons", Bureau of Justice Assistance, February 2001.
- ^ Newkirk, M., & Selway, W. (2013, July 11). "Gangs Ruled Prison as For-Profit Model Put Blood on Floor", Bloomberg.com. Retrieved July 11, 2013, from
- ^ George Monbiot, The Guardian, 3 March 2009, "This revolting trade in human lives is an incentive to lock people up"
- ^ Pilkington, Ed (March 7, 2009). "Jailed for a MySpace parody, the student who exposed America's cash for kids scandal". The Guardian. London. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ Whitehead, John (April 10, 2012). "Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex". The Rutherford Institute. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
- ^ Eric Schlosser (December 1998). The Prison-Industrial Complex. The Atlantic. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ^ Ray Downs (May 17 2013). Who's Getting Rich Off the Prison-Industrial Complex? Vice. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ^ Selman, Donna and Paul Leighton (2010). Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 1442201738 p. 78
- ^ Pat Beall (November 22, 2013). Big business, legislators pushed for stiff sentences. The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
- ^ http://www.sentencingproject.org/Admin/Documents/publications/inc_prisonprivatization.pdf
- ^ Greenblatt, Alan (October 2003). "What Makes Alec Smart?". Governing.
- ^ Sullivan, Laura (2010). Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law. National Public Radio.
- ^ Sullivan, Laura (2010). Shaping State Laws With Little Scrutiny. National Public Radio.
- ^ http://www.kansascity-criminal-attorney.com/PracticeAreas/Jessicas-Law.pdf
- ^ Donald Cohen (11 July 2013). COLUMN - Edward Snowden and the disaster of privatization. Reuters. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ CRIMINAL: How Lockup Quotas and "Low-Crime Taxes" Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations. In the Public Interest. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ Katy Hall and Jan Diehm (19 September 2013). One Disturbing Reason For Our Exploding Prison Population (INFOGRAPHIC). The Huffington Post Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ Center for Policy Alternatives. (n.d.). Privatizing Prisons. Retrieved October 3, 2006, from the Center for Policy Alternatives Web site: http://www.stateaction.org/issues/issue.cfm/issue/PrivatizingPrisons.xml
- ^ "PCI Religious Statements". Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ Brendan Fischer (28 June 2013). Pushback Against Privatization Across the Country. Commondreams. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- ^ Rebecca Boone (3 January 2014). Idaho to Take Over Privately-Run State Prison. ABC News. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ^ a b Katie Rose Quandt (28 April 2014). Corporations Divest Nearly $60 Million From Private Prison Industry. Mother Jones. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
- ^ Gunnison, Robert B. (August 1, 1997). "Privately Run Prison Planned for Mojave: Firm Says It Can House Inmates Cheaper". San Francisco Chronicle: A22.
- ^ Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons, Washington Post, Matt Zapotosky & Chico Harlan, August 8, 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ Reducing Our Use of Private Prisons, United States Department of Justice, Sally Q. Yates, August 18, 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ "Ontario to Take Back Control of Private Super Jail". CBC News.
- ^ "Prison Privatization: Canada Mulls Contracting Services To Companies Lobbying For Correctional Work". The Huffington Post. 13 July 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Canada Studying Private Firms for Prisons as Budgets Fall". Bloomberg.
- ^ article from Haaretz newspaper
- ^ "The 'Kids for Cash' Scandal from Capitalism: A Love Story".
- ^ "Kids for Cash (2013)". IMDb. 1 August 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ Steve Laudig. "Ripped from the Headlines: Greed, Corruption, and Hate Crimes in Northeastern Pennsylvania". The Public Record. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
- ^ "TV Show Mirrors Area Legal Headlines". The Times Leader. 2009. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
- ^ Michael R. Sisak (Staff Writer) (2009-12-17). "County judges provide TV fodder". Standard Speaker. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
Further reading[edit]
- Harcourt, Bernard (2012). The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674066162
- Le Vay, Julian (2015). Competition for prison: public or private?' The Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 978 1447313229
- Selman, Donna and Paul Leighton (2010). Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 1442201738
- Austin, James, Ph.D. and Garry Coventry, Ph.D. "Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons." U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs. February 2001. NCJ 181249. Bureau of Justice Assistance.
External links[edit]
- How private prisons game the system. Alternet at Salon. December 1, 2011.
- America's private prison system is a national disgrace. The Guardian. 13 June 2013
- The Business of Mass Incarceration. Chris Hedges, Truthdig. Jul 28, 2013.
- Prisoners of Profit: Private Prison Empire Rises Despite Startling Record Of Juvenile Abuse. Chris Kirkham, The Huffington Post. October 22, 2013
- Revolt at "Ritmo": Dire Conditions in For-Profit Texas Immigration Jail Spark Prisoner Uprising. Democracy Now! February 24, 2015.
- How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about. The Washington Post. April 28, 2015.
- Study finds private prisons keep inmates longer, without reducing future crime. University of Wisconsin–Madison News, June 10, 2015.
- We Must End For-Profit Prisons. Bernie Sanders for The Huffington Post. September 22, 2015.
- Private Prison Exec Waves Off Criminal Justice Reform, Predicts More Profits. The Intercept. December 22, 2015.
- "This Man Will Almost Certainly Die": The Secret Deaths of Dozens at Privatized Immigrant-Only Jails. Democracy Now! February 9, 2016.
- My Four Months as a Private Prison guard. Shane Bauer for Mother Jones, June 2016.
- Ending the Barbarity. Jacobin. August 24, 2016.


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Some in the anti-Joe crowd think this is the coolest thing ever -- Joe being on Colbert, as Colbert's shtick is lampooning right-wing talking heads like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. "He'll never even know he's being made fun of!" one anti-Joe activist told me. Problem is, I think it just ends up humanizing Joe, by making it seem as if he's in on the joke. The Daily Show would have been a better bet. Jon Stewart would take Arpaio's head off, verbally.
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Lighten this tax season with 'Love, Sex & the IRS'
THE POST-SIGNAL / Saja Hoffpauir
Cast members of the Acadia Players' upcoming production of "Love, Sex & the IRS" include, front row from left, Waylon Gotte, Chris Pridgeon, Amanda Caldwell, Aaron Bertrand; back row, Patty Ronkartz, Robert Taunton, Megan Broussard, Ashley Turner and Tiffany Reed. Also appearing, but not pictured, are Katt Barousse and Luke Arsement (who plays the role of Justice of the Peace Arnold Grunion).
Perhaps the best thing about the Acadia Players' latest production, "Love, Sex & the IRS," is that no matter what you expect, it's not what you get. From the script or from the cast.
The play, written by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore, and produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., tells the tale of Jon Trachtman (Aaron Bertrand) and Leslie Arthur (Chris Pridgeon), a couple of young, out-of-work bachelor musicians who room together in Manhattan.
It opens with Leslie on the couch getting hot and heavy with one Kate Dennis, who just so happens to be not only Jon's girlfriend, but also his fiancée. Apparently the two believe themselves to be in love, and the only thing standing between them is Kate's failure to tell Jon, who is not expected to respond well, about their romance.
In walks Jon, excited about having booked a gig for their band and so self-centered that he is oblivious to the shenanigans of Leslie and Kate. But his mood is soon dampened when he receives a call from Internal Revenue Service agent Floyd Spinner (Robert Taunton), who has discovered a discrepancy regarding his wife's filing history and needs to schedule an interview for the next day.
His wife? Yes, his wife. In an attempt to avoid paying the tax man his due, Jon has conveniently turned Leslie into a woman and made her his wife instead of his roommate. At this point, given his own secret, Leslie has no choice but to participate in the charade, dressing in drag for their meeting with the IRS agent.
Jon and Leslie, with Kate as an accomplice, are soon met with a variety of obstacles in their attempt to fool Spinner, including a nosy, boorish landlord (Mr. Jansen, played by Waylon Gotte), Jon's mother, who has appeared with her suitcase for a surprise visit, and Leslie's girlfriend, Connie.
Leslie's girlfriend? Yes, his girlfriend. The play is filled with so many plot twists and turns that even an audience member with ESP could not see them all coming.
The fact that this play is relatively complicated makes the performances of its cast members, most of whom are relative new-comers to the stage, that much more impressive.
Pridgeon comes close to stealing the show with his portrayal of Leslie Arthur. Not afraid of the stage, he handily embraces the physical comedy required of his character and plays well off of his co-stars. Pridgeon essentially pulls off a Vince-Vaughn-type role with a style worthy of Vaughn himself.
Bertrand is perfectly cast as Jon. With close-cropped hair, a physique on the athletic side and a couple of tattoos, he looks like a man who would not respond well to news that his girlfriend was cheating. Additionally, his voice and mannerisms lend themselves well to the portrayal of Jon and Leslie's urban culture, and in the end his character is worthy of a spot on "Jersey Shore."
In the role of sad sack IRS agent Spinner, Taunton works hard to play a lecherous character that is nevertheless likeable and remains clueless until the end. It is not an easy role, but Taunton gamely meets the challenge.
Interestingly, two separate casts will fill the female roles in the production. April 10 through 13, viewers can expect to see Katt Barousse as Kate Dennis, Patty Ronkartz as Vivian Trachtman (Jon's mother) and Megan Broussard as Leslie's girlfriend Connie. April 24 through 27, the stage will see Amanda Caldwell, Tiffany Reed and Ashley Turner, respectively, in those roles.
The audiences that see Caldwell as Kate will see an actor who is relaxed and comfortable in her role. Reed will do a good job as Jon's disapproving mother, and Turner will do well as the hapless Connie.
Lastly, but not leastly, Gotte's portrayal of the landlord Jansen is downright fun, and Gotte could give Henry Rollins a run for his money when it comes to playing a clod-like character.
In the end, these young actors are all very serious about their roles, and their level of investment in the success of this play is no joke.
"Love, Sex & the IRS" is being directed by Jimmy Broussard, with P.E. Ronkartz as assistant director. Producer Shawn Murphy LaCroix will handle lights and sound.
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Rae is away all this week, busy in Canberra learning new things for her job. She left on Sunday night and is back this Friday. This means I'm in sole parent mode, and I think it's the longest she's been away by a couple of days. Things are going fine in her absence and this made me realise something.
Years ago I would have been asked if I need help with the kids. This time, nothing. I'm not sure if this is a reflection on my capabilities as a parent or simply changing times, but either way, it's a good thing.
Back On The Road
It finally looks like I'm back.
This morning I ran, well, jogged, a whole 3 kilometres. It was at an almost six minute pace and even given the humidity and heat I still felt it when I stopped, but I did it.
The best thing though? Given how my foot seems to have pulled up I should be able to do it again tomorrow.
It's been a horrid four months. It started off when I popped my hip flexor way back at the end of August. This had me laid up for two months which was just enough time for me to recover and get an infection in my toe. Great. This lasted a couple of weeks but oddly enough my foot didn't seem any better and I still couldn't run so I went to the physio again and it turned out the hip flexor and infected toe were masking a pretty severe case of planter fasciatis, It was back off my feet again. The inflamation from the planter fasciatis spread to where my calf muscle connects at the ankle and this put me back a little more.
So, after months of stretching, icing and putting on weight I seem to have recovered from the shopping list of ills and my physio says I can start running again. Slowly and short distances at first, and he has suggested I concentrate more on endurance than speed in the future, but I'm back and I don't want to go through this again.
To The Beach
I'm not a beach person. As a young boy I'd spend our two week vacation, at a house literally on the beach, upstairs reading a book. But then you have days like today; a perfect evening, two kids who have been great and deserve a treat, Rae out to the movies and a busy day that could do with a relaxing ending. All of this adds up to fish and chips by the beach so we packed up and headed to Altona.
We had fish and chips in the park, the kids had a run around on the big playground and we went for a stroll out on the pier. You couldn't have asked for a better evening
Back to A 'Driod
For most of last year I had two Windows Mobile phones (both running the Win 10 Mobile preview) and I loved them. Unfortunately one of them (the 640xl, my personal phone) developed a screen burn so I had to take it back. The good news is that it was a straight swap, the bad news was thanks to bad timing with model releases there were no 640xl's to be had anywhere in Vic.
So I swapped back to Android, a Samsung Galasy 5S.
I've had the droid for a week now and here's my quick summary :
- Windows Mobile OS is a far better OS.
- I miss the battery life on the XL. That thing could go all day and still have 70% left.
- Samsung Touch Wiz interface is incredibly annoying.
- It's all about the apps. No matter how much better the OS is, Android just cricifies WIn Mobile when it comes to quality and availablilty. I now have all of my banking apps back (I had no ANZ on Win Mobile) but it's the quality of the apps that makes the difference. Android apps make Win mobile apps look like kid toys.
- Microsoft have the right approach in making their apps available on all platforms.
My ideal world would be one where I could run Android apps on the WIndows OS, but with the abandonment of the Win-Droid bridge that's never going to happen.
Here We Go Again
Back to work for 2016.
It will be challenging for the next few weeks as the kids are at home and Rae is back to work. Rae normally takes the first couple of weeks of Jan off but work comittments means there won't be many holidays at all for her until October. The worse thing is I wish I could spend more time with them while they are home but January, which was once the quietest time of the year for me, has now turned in to one of the busiest. I'll do my best to fit in some visits to parks and fun stuff, and no doubt feel guilty that I didn't do more when I send them back to school. Just one of the joys of a working from home parent.
A Little Bit Of Malloy History
This is a little bit of Malloy history.
My dad ran a stationery shop for over 20 years, Ted Malloy Office and Art Supplies (55 High St, Shepparton, and bugger, I can't remember the number; that's going to annoy me). Anyway, underneath the glass topped counter was a space and this device lived there. It held a large roll of brown paper that was used to wrap goods.
It lived at my sisters for a while and a while ago it moved here. We've repurposed it for the kids who can now grab drawing paper whenever they want.
I bet dad never thought that 40+ years after it was first used it would be still going strong.
Growing Brothers
We thought the boys needed a little help so yesterday we left them out in the summer rain to grow a little.
The Outdoor Indoor Cat
When Frankie chose us as her new family back in April we were happy as her colourings meant she'd make a perfect outdoor cat. So we brought her home, settled her in and after a while opened the back door so she could explore. Which she point blank refused to do and it didn't take us long to realise that in Frankie's mind, she's very much an indoor cat.
So it was with great excitement today I saw her sitting at the front door, checking out a bird hopping around our drive. I opened the door, expecting her to run back to Moo's bed but this time, no, she decided she would have a sniff around ouitside. It was only for five minutes, and she never strayed far from the front door but it was quite the adventure for her.
She's back on Moo's bed now, and should recover from her exertions in a week or so.
Taking It Laying Down. And Squatting Down. And Repeating.
I still can't run thanks to this damn planter fasciatis. I've kept up my cardio by hopping on the bike at the gym and kept up weights but today I decided I shold prep myself for returning to running, whenever that may come. I was going to talk to a trainer about doing a core session 'cause it's an area I neglect and one that's important for runners but then I realised I know enough about the gym and I have other resources.
I remembered seeing a 20 minute core workout for runners on Runners World the other day so I've made that in to a Sway and it will be my guide tomorrow.
Here's what I'll be doing.
A Case of FFFW
I'm a freelancer, and most of my client base are in Sydney so every time around this year I begin to suffer from FFFW – Freelance Festive Festivity Withdrawal. My social media feeds are full of people attending work do's and skiving off early for a beer or two with workmates, suppliers or clients.
It gets you down after a bit so today I took myself out to lunch. Okay, it was a working lunch and a quick one at that but at least I got out of the office for a bit.


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Located in Alabang within a short walk of Festival Supermall, Parque Espana Residence Hotel is within a mile (2 km) of Alabang Town Center. This 4-star hotel has 124 guestrooms and offers an outdoor pool, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. It's in central Muntinlupa and also close to Asian Hospital and Medical Center and SM City Southmall.
Enjoy dining at one of 2 onsite restaurants including Bistro del Cielo, which specializes in international cuisine. Satisfy your hunger without leaving your room with 24-hour room service, or quench your thirst with a beverage at the bar/lounge or coffee shop/café. Start each morning with buffet breakfast, available for a fee from 6 AM to 10 AM.
All 124 recently renovated accommodations feature kitchens and space to spread out with living rooms and dining areas. Guests can expect to find free WiFi and wired Internet, plus flat-screen TVs with cable channels and DVD players. Beds sport premium bedding and bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries. IPod docks, minibars, and coffee makers are other standard amenities.
Property features
Guests of Parque Espana Residence Hotel have access to an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a rooftop terrace. There's free parking, and an airport shuttle (available on request) for PHP 1200 per vehicle one way. The front desk is staffed 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include free WiFi in public areas, a meeting room, and a 24-hour business center.
- Free WiFi and wired Internet in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
- Outdoor pool
Parque Espana Residence Hotel5309 E Asia Dr Filinvest Corporate City Alabang Muntinlupa Manila 1781
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Parque Espana Residence Hotel features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. This Muntinlupa hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, concierge services, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- One meeting room
- Free WiFi
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 124
- Number of floors - 19
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Fitness facilities
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms
- Rooftop terrace
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1999
- Free area shuttle
- Number of restaurants - 2
- 24-hour business center
- Free self parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Separate living room
- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchen
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Laundry facilities
- Separate dining area
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Microwave
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Microwave
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Kitchen
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Slippers
- Shower only
- Bidet
- Desk
- In-room safe
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Separate dining area
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Stovetop
- iPod docking station
- Separate living room
- Room service (24 hours)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6 AM and 10 AM.
Bistro del Cielo - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Ecotours nearby
Spa Services
- Massages
To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No pets or service animals allowed
- Deposit: PHP 1000 per night
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: PHP 430.00 for adults and PHP 215.00 for children (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: PHP 1200 per vehicle (one way)
- Rollaway bed fee: PHP 1250 per night
Hotel Name
- Parque Espana
- Parque Espana Hotel
- Parque Espana Residence
- Parque Espana Residence Hotel
- Parque Espana Residence Hotel Muntinlupa
- Parque Espana Residence Muntinlupa
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This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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Warner Home Video Enters the Ring as They Team up with the International Fight League on an Exclusive Home Video Agreement
Monday January 22, 8:56 am ET
Mixed Martial Arts at its Finest Comes to DVD and EST in 2007
BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Warner Home Video (WHV) and The International Fight League, Inc. the world's first professional team-based mixed martial arts league, have reached an agreement for the exclusive worldwide home entertainment distribution of IFL branded programming. The announcement was jointly made by Jeff Brown, WHV Senior Vice President and General Manager TV and Franchise, and Gareb Shamus, IFL Co-founder and CEO.
WHV will be the exclusive worldwide home entertainment distributor for all IFL content including sanctioned league fights, sanctioned championship fights, and IFL specials and/or events. WHV will distribute the IFL programming via packaged media (DVD) as well as through Electronic Sell Through (EST.)
The first full 11 date IFL season will launch January 19 at ORACLE Arena in Oakland, California with 12 teams representing the U.S. as well as Canada and Japan. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has experienced significant growth in the last few years with the emergence of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC.) The IFL will expand the sport of MMA in a team format to an international audience and continue to grow the brand.
WHV plans to distribute no less than four new programs each year for the next 3 years. Titles will vary from complete matches to year in review, fighter profiles and best knockouts with the first, DVD set to be released Q3, 2007.
Regarding the announcement, Brown remarked, "We are extremely excited to bring fans what we feel is one of the fastest growing sports in the world through our deal with the IFL. With the tremendous success of MMA releases, we're thrilled to bring this team oriented league to home video for the first time ever."
He added, "The IFL has done an exceptional job launching this new format of mixed martial arts and we look forward to building a long lasting relationship and producing quality home video that the fans will want to add to their collection."
Shamus said "We are thrilled to join forces with Warner Home Video on a worldwide home video distribution deal. To join their roster of sports clients is an honor for us and we will work closely with them to expand the IFL brand into the home video market."
About WHV
With operations in 90 international territories Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Video and New Line Home Entertainment.
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Hryunov To Meet Dana White on Roy Jones-Anderson Silva
By Yuri Tarantin
According to Russian promoter Vladimir "красивый" Hryunov, he will travel to Las Vegas to have a meeting with UFC President Dana White to discuss the possibility of staging a cross-sport battle between 44-year-old former champion Roy Jones Jr. (57-8, 40KOs) and former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva (33-5 in MMA, 16-1 in the UFC), 38-years-old.
A few months ago, Chris Weidman (10-0) knocked out Silva in the second round, snapping Silva's near seven year undefeated run and 16-0 streak in the UFC. Their rematch is scheduled to take place this coming Saturday.
White has discussed the possibility of staging a UFC event in Russia, and Jones has now fought in Russia twice under Hryunov's banner. Hryunov wants to help White stage a UFC event in Russia with Jones vs. Silva as the main event.
"White has long voiced his desire to organize an event in Russia. At the moment, several Russians are fighting in the UFC, and some of them I'm sure can get very far and even become champions. I very much look forward to meeting with White. The UFC events are held in a cage, and Jones and Silva will be staged under the rules of professional boxing. Therefore, they need a ring. This fight will create an enormous amount of interest around the world. And I would very much like [to have this fight] in Russia or in my country of Kazakhstan," Hryunov said.
Yuri Tarantin covers boxing for Allboxing.ru
[QUOTE=New England;14063327]your use of english sucks, so i'm really not even sure what you're trying to say. james toney very obviously needs money. his financial problems are well documented. roy jones does not. his financial success is well documented. he…Comment by Tyler_Durden on 12-24-2013
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a. How does the width and height of these rectangles compare to the width of your outstretched arms and the height of the average room?
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TSA Response to Universal Criticism of Behavior Detection: More Behavior Detection
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NSA Surveillance: The Scandal is the Use, Not the Abuse
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—Pathologists will be interested in the information that the Trypanosoma equiperdum has been found in a mare clinically affected with dourine, or maladie du coit, at the quarantine station established by this department at Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1904. The first demonstration was made by Drs. E. A. Watson and M. V. Gallivan, on Feb. 11, 1907, in material taken from a vesicle on the mucous membrane of the vagina of the animal above referred to, which was found to be affected with dourine on the premises of her owner, Mr. R. Tiffin, near Lethbridge, on Dec. 21, 1906, and subsequently removed to the quarantine station for purposes of experimental observation.The disease was successfully transmitted in February to a yearling filly and the parasite subsequently observed in preparations from a fresh plaque. The finding was confirmed by Dr. C. H. Higgins, pathologist
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