Don't Get Your Honey Where You Get Your Money

We received another interesting tip over the weekend...

Many of you might remember a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Supervisor at the Stewart Detention Center named John Vanek. John Vanek was in charge of ICE's enforcement and contract obligations of the National Detention Standards. He's the guy that should of been raising concerns about issues like the alleged burnt out light bulbs in detainees cells that went unreplaced for several months. From what we hear John Vanek was forced to retire by ICE. A source alleges that this was because of a very inappropriate and personal relationship he was in with another employee. This female was 30 years younger than Mr. Vanek and had been employed by both CCA and ICE. This female employee had worked for Vance Laughlin (at SDC) with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and then been hired by Mr. Vanek and the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency (also at SDC). Allegedly this female employee was fired/forced to resign last week. From what we hear Mr. Vanek has now been hired by Warden Vance Laughlin at CCA's Adams County facility in Natchez, MS.

This whole incident seems highly unethical and yet again seems to demonstrate well the inability of the government to effectively manage a private detention center when there own contract manager allegedly engages in activity like this. Not to mention the fact that when you screw up with one organization and get caught the other one quite often seems to then just hire you. Apparently this type of behavior is not a problem when it comes to employment with CCA the self declared "leader" in privatised corrections. But then again we have also reported on similar incidents that Vance Laughlin himself has allegedly engaged in previously. Maybe birds of a feather are just flocking together....

How does that old phrase go, it's not who you know it's who you.....

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Leave A Light On

From what we hear the maintenance crews at Corrections Corporation of America's Stewart Detention Center are going to be really busy this week. A source from the Detention Centers alleges that the maintenance supervisor would not previously order parts for housing units because he did not want to break his CCA mandated budget. From what we have heard more than 50 cells have been without lights for close to 3 months now. Counting detainees in the dark must be a real challenge. It's a good thing those bulbs finally came in this week. I am sure that ICE is doing such a great job in monitoring this contract that something like this just could not be going on. Just don't pay any attention to all the work orders for burned out light bulbs or all those maintenance crews running around on the facilities surveillance cameras replacing them...

I tell you what, next time your multi-million dollar profit making company decides that light bulbs are not in the budget for three months just drop me an email. I will see if I can put together a bake sale in the Stewart Detention Center parking lot to buy them for you.

Perhaps Warden Swinton just needs to get Tom Bodett to join his maintenance team...

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"Absolutely CCA does not cut corners to save costs." Surely they would not lie.....

Vance Laughlin Update

We have had a few people mention the fact that Vance Laughlin allegedly went to the hospital Christmas week. Rumour has it for a heart attack. We have received one or two comments that this blogs "Twelve days of Vance Laughlin" Christmas coverage may have led to his medical problems.

After some debate we have decided to publicly reply to this situation. To be brutally honest this blog does not track or even care about Vance Laughlin's health status. We will leave any medical problems of his up to others to confirm or deny. This blog only cares about reporting on his rather shoddy leadership history of poor choices and very bad decisions.

That said, this blog does not accept any responsibility for any health problems he allegedly has. For the record I would like to remind everyone that I gave Vance Laughlin the opportunity to resign prior to reporting any allegations regarding his activities. Perhaps that is an option he should of pursued.

Additionally this blog accepts no responsibility for any of his alleged health problems caused by The 270 View reporting any actions that he allegedly chose to make. If Vance Laughlin (or his employer Corrections Corporation of America) had made better choices perhaps he would not have to worry about this humble blog reporting any embarrassing facts about him or his bad leadership decisions.

We do however wish Vance Laughlin a speedy recovery. The 270 View would not wish a heart attack upon anyone, not even Vance Laughlin.....

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