That's why you see one million African-Americans in prisons and jails today, and you don't see wealthy African-Americans, routinely, though, in prisons and jails.
This included divesting itself of its GEO Care subsidiary, which provided medical and mental health services through government contracts, including at some prisons and jails.
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Any entity can and has been a target, even law enforcement agencies and jails and prisons, where inmates, correctional officers, teachers and senior staff have been caught in a variety of schemes to steal, corrupt, defraud, extort and improperly obtain or divert assets and use their influence for personal gain.
"The standards we establish today reflect the fact that sexual assault crimes committed within our correctional facilities can have devastating consequences for individual victims and for communities far beyond our jails and prisons, " Attorney General Eric Holder said in a written statement.
Wexford, which provides health care under contract to 91, 000 inmates in 100 jails and prisons in 10 states, was tied to a payoff scandal in Illinois.
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About 10% of these untreated individuals (350, 000 people) comprise one-third of the homeless population, one-fifth of the inmates in jails and prisons, and cause at least 10% of all U.S. homicides.
In the US, criminals are punished in prisons for more serious crimes and in jails for lesser offences.
There was too much talk about jails and police and prisons, she said.
Last week the organisation joined a coalition warning Justice Secretary Jack Straw that proposals to build three 2, 500-bed Titan jails would "squander" public money and leave Britain the "prisons capital of Europe".
Specifically, it means shifting responsibility for punishment from prisons, which in America are state or federal operations, to jails, which are run by counties and their elected sheriffs.
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