Tag Archives: Aramark

Petition – Tell Congress: Ban private for-profit prisons

Tell Congress: Ban private for-profit prisons Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and poor people and people of color suffer the most at the hands of our out-of-control incarceration industry.2That’s partly because the corporations that … Continue reading

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Ghosting inmates to MI almost as reckless as Ghosting them to FL [updated]

Private Prisons, Public Shame | Al Jazeera America Last month the state of Washington contracted with the GEO Group, one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the U.S., to move up to 1,000 inmates from the state’s overcrowded prisons … Continue reading

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Oregon’s Ghosts may become Florida’s #DeadInmates

DOC Administration Office of Population Management [Oregon] Administrative Functions/Capacity and Resource Management Contact Info: Jamie Breyman, Office of Population Management Administrator 503-378-5854 Provide an infrastructure for system-wide strategic planning, and communication. Broker system-wide collaborative conversations and think tanks for innovation … Continue reading

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A disheartening @CorizonHealth commercial re #DeadInmates

Advocates Launch Allegheny County Jail Health Justice Project | 90.5 WESA A month ago, Frank Smart made a phone call from the Allegheny County Jail declaring that he was not receiving his anti-seizure medication. A few hours later – after … Continue reading

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Show of hands: Who DOESN’T know that Aramark is a parasitic purveyor of maggoty prison meals?

UPDATED: MI-GOV SCANDAL – Snyder admin quietly canceled $98K fine for for-profit prison food vendor Edwin Buss, who also used to run the Indiana Department of Corrections, will be paid $160,000 a year. His first year’s salary will come from … Continue reading

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John Oliver’s US prison rant hones in on (you guessed it!) @FLGovScott

   

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.@Aramark: serving maggotty meals to MI & OH inmates is unacceptable.

Ohio and Michigan: Stop Serving Maggots to Prisoners! – The Petition Site Multiple prisons in both Ohio and Michigan have recently been found with food and serving equipment covered with live maggots. The prisons in question include the Ohio Reformatory for Women … Continue reading

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Given its abysmal history, what did Michigan expect of Aramark?

Private Contractor For Michigan Prisons Repeatedly Failed To Give Prisoners Enough Food The DOC says Aramark has violated terms of the prison food contract hundreds of times since it fully took charge of feeding Michigan’s incarcerated in December. The violations … Continue reading

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Are Florida’s #DAVID contracts like #Aramark’s?

After sending the email below, I sent Tweets reminding Rick Scott, Will Weatherford and Joe Negron that the questions I’ve posed aren’t rhetorical. Shortly thereafter, I received a perplexing email from Ms. Taylor that alleges I will somehow know the … Continue reading

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Aramark food = cruel and unusual punishment

Food Behind Bars Isn’t Fit for Your Dog | Alternet “I have seen inmates served bread that has hair on it, luncheon meat that has mold on it, spoiled fruit and food on the trays that have bugs in it … Continue reading

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