Bureau of Internal Audits and Standards Compliance, 9/25/2012
This report on the management audit of the CCA-owned Lake Eerie Correctional Institution in Conneaut, Ohio identifies the prison's compliance levels with audit standards, detailing the prison's 47 counts of non-compliance including health service violations, food service violations, and poor reporting practices.
Texas State Auditor's Office, 7/1/2012
This Texas State Auditor Report describes problems found with ReHabWorks, a project being developed for the Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services by a private cotnractor. This project combines two separate case management systems for the blind and disabled into a single web-based system serving more than 196,000 Texans. The SAO report said the project is now expected to cost $18 million and won't be fully operational until 2013, five years later than planned. Furthermore, the agency mispresented project status and costs associated with the contract.
NYC Comptroller's Office, 3/20/2012
This is an audit report on the Project Management for the Emergency Communications Transformation Program by the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.
Department of Sociology University of Hawaii at Manoa
Department of the Attorney General State of Hawaii
Assistant Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice Chaminade University of Honolulu
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1/2/2012
This is a report on recidivism rates between Hawaii prisoners incarcerated in Hawaii and in private prisons on the mainland which finds that that there is no significant difference in recidivism rates- which means private prisons do not do a better job than public prisons in reducing recidivism.
, 12/15/2011
This report offers 18 recommendations put together by the HHS Committee in the Nebraska Legislature, the biggest of them being to remove control of child welfare services from the private sector.
, 11/15/2011
This is a copy of the final declaratory and injunctive judgement filed by the Florida Police Benevolent Association against the FL Department of Corrections.
Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security, 9/14/2011
This is an archived webcast of a hearing held by the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security to review the Federal Railroad Administration's and Amtrak's implementation of the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008, including the intercity and high-speed rail grant programs.
Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Requirements and Strategic Integration, 9/9/2011
This report transmits information related to the conversions to in-sourcing of Department of Defense (DoD) functions to DoD civilian employees made during the 2010 fiscal year.
Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts, 9/7/2011
This audito report examines contract expenditures for child welfare services under the Families Matter reform implemented by the Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS) in 2009.
Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office, 9/5/2011
This report provides information on the proposed privatization of the Office of Group Benefits. It delineates (1) the timeline of events in relation to privatizing OGB's health plan(s); (2) OGB's administrative costs; (3) the Chaffe & Associates Inc., report; (4) privatization of health insurance agencies that may have occured in other states; (5) the role of the Legislature in relation to privatizing OGB's health plan(s); (6) various factors that should be considered before the sale/lease of OGB; (7) requests for proposals for a financial advisor; and (8) an overview of OGB's operations.
