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	Wackenhut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wackenhut was founded in 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida, by George Wackenhut and three partners, all former FBI agents.
		During the 1980s Wackenhut was active in the field of airport security; however, it has stated that it was due to pressure from airports and airlines to compromise the company's standards by cutting wages that they only protected four airports in the United States on September 11, 2001.
		In 1999, Wackenhut was stripped of a $12-million-a-year contract in Texas and fined $625,000 for failing to live up to promises in the running of a state jail after several guards were indicted for having sex with female inmates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wackenhut (1209 words)

	Wackenhut
		When Wackenhut operatives were caught recently in the public spotlight by court allegations of illegal surveillance, Associated Press reports that they were staunchly defended by their employer in the case, the president of Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., James B. Hermiller.
		Wackenhut Corp. itself appears on occasion to be the collective front of a variety of felons and scofflaws.
		Wackenhut's "just regular" guards are no strangers to informed San Diegans, at least not those who read the L.A. Times.When the Union-Tribune Publishing Co. brought in the Tennessee law firm King and Ballow to handle its contract negotiations, KandB fired all the U-T security guards and hired new guards from Wackenhut.
	www.transbay.net /~nessie/Pages/wackenhut.html (5951 words)

	The Austin Chronicle News: Beaten by Wackenhut: David Prater was beaten nearly to death in a privatized jail -- and the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		More specifically, the lawsuit charges, Wackenhut did not employ the number of guards it was required to hire to maintain a safe environment, nor did it provide any of the educational programming required to keep the inmates occupied, out of trouble, and potentially rehabilitated.
		Wackenhut argues that the inmates were the intended third-party beneficiaries of the contract Wackenhut signed and agreed to abide by for the 36 months the company ran the jail.
		In February 2000, Cool filed a discrimination lawsuit against Wackenhut claiming that after she had "document[ed] and report[ed] numerous instances of misconduct by other corrections officers," the jail became an exceedingly hostile workplace, and that she was harassed because of her race, sex, and age.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-07-05/pols_feature.html (3770 words)

	Wackenhut Corporation - SourceWatch
		The Wackenhut Corporation was founded in 1954 by former FBI official George R. Wackenhut, has been a publicly held corporation from 1966 to 2002, and they have recently merged with Group 4 Falck to create the monster private security firm Group 4 Securicor.
		Wackenhut's surveillance services were fined in 1999 by a federal district court in Alabama for illegal wire tapping, theft of business documents and corporate sabotage.
		Wackenhut, a fervent right-winger, made his money in the 1950s creating dossiers on suspected communists, achieving by 1966 over four million files, or one for every 46 adults in the country.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Wackenhut_Corporation (1161 words)

	SPY MAGAZINE: WACKENHUT
		It was Smathers who provided Wackenhut with his big break when the senator's law firm helped the company find a loophole in the Pinkerton law, the 1893 federal statute that had made it a crime for an employee of a private detective agency to do work for the government.
		Wackenhut is the largest single company supplying security to U.S. embassies overseas; several of the 13 embassies it guards have been in important hotbeds of espionage, such as Chile, Greece and El Salvador.
		Ernesto Bermudez, who was Wackenhut's director of international operations from 1987 to '89, admitted to SPY that during 1985 and '86 he ran Wackenhut's operations in El Salvador, where he was in charge of 1,500 men.
	prop1.org /legal/prisons/92wack.htm (4040 words)

	WACKEN.HUT
		"Wackenhut would allow the CIA to occupy positions within the company [in order to carry out] clandestine operations." He also said that Wackenhut would supply intelligence agencies with information, and that it was compensated for this- "in a quid pro quo arrangement," Corbett says-with government contracts worth billions of dollars over the years.
		When Wackenhut operatives were caught recently in the public spotlight by court allegations of illegal surveillance, Associated Press reports that they were staunchly defended by their employer in the case, the president of Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., James B.
		A poignant vignette of Wackenhut labor relations is found in SPOOKS The Haunting of America- The Private Use of Secret Agents Author Jim Hougan recounts the dilemma of a certain Muldoon, hired by Wackenhut to guard publisher Katherine Graham and other executives of the Washington Post during a dispute with the pressmen.
	www.pdxnorml.org /WACKEN.HUT.html (9092 words)

	Gregory Palast: Wackenhut's Free Market in Human Misery
		Wackenhut agreed to house, feed, guard, and educate inmates for $43 a day (£26).
		With low pay for dangerous work, one court official told me, Wackenhut fills the hiring gap with ex-cons who get through lax background checks; and there are the teenage guards, some too young to qualify for a driver's license.
		Wackenhut, said the flak is, "a part of the Premier consortium." That's one way of putting it.
	www.serendipity.li /more/palast01.htm (1261 words)

	Wackenhut Dallas
		Dallas is the North Texas office of the Wackenhut Corporation, the second largest provider of security in the world.
		Wackenhut Dallas has developed a comprehensive service package emphasizing the basic needs of the local market place.
		Wackenhut Dallas offers its clients centralized control over expenditures of contracted services and standardization of administrative areas such as, policies, post orders, personnel administration, reporting, and standardized policies relating to personnel screening and selection, training, appearance, and supervision.
	www.wackenhutdallas.com (404 words)

	Wackenhut Austin
		Austin is the Central Texas office of the Wackenhut Corporation, the second largest provider of security in the world.
		Wackenhut Austin has developed a comprehensive service package emphasizing the basic needs of the local market place.
		Wackenhut Austin offers its clients centralized control over expenditures of contracted services and standardization of administrative areas such as, policies, post orders, personnel administration, reporting, and standardized policies relating to personnel screening and selection, training, appearance, and supervision.
	www.wackenhutaustin.com (405 words)

	Wackenhut San Antonio
		San Antonio is the North Texas office of the Wackenhut Corporation, the second largest provider of security in the world.
		Wackenhut San Antonio has developed a comprehensive service package emphasizing the basic needs of the local market place.
		Wackenhut San Antonio offers its clients centralized control over expenditures of contracted services and standardization of administrative areas such as, policies, post orders, personnel administration, reporting, and standardized policies relating to personnel screening and selection, training, appearance, and supervision.
	www.wackenhutsanantonio.com (407 words)

	Wackenhut Houston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Houston is the Texas Southern Coastal office of the Wackenhut Corporation, the second largest provider of security in the world.
		Wackenhut Houston has developed a comprehensive service package emphasizing the basic needs of the local market place.
		Wackenhut Houston offers its clients centralized control over expenditures of contracted services and standardization of administrative areas such as, policies, post orders, personnel administration, reporting, and standardized policies relating to personnel screening and selection, training, appearance, and supervision.
	www.wackenhuthouston.com /index.html (406 words)

	History of Wackenhut Black (not pink ) bag Activities -- The Catbird's Forum
		From the outset, George Wackenhut was President and chief executive officer of the enterprise.
		Connolly highlighted George Wackenhut as a "hardline rightwinger" who was able to profit from his beliefs by building dossiers on Americans suspected of being Communists or leftleaning "subversives and sympathizers" and selling the information to interested parties.
		Wackenhut would allow the CIA to occupy positions within the company [in order to carry out] clandestine operations."Additionally, Corbett said that Wackenhut supplied intelligence agencies with information, and it was compensated for this "in a quid pro quo arrangement" with government contracts worth billions of dollars over the years.
	www.voy.com /129276/55.html (1251 words)

	George Wackenhut Dies; Security Pioneer (washingtonpost.com)
		Wackenhut sold his company to a Danish firm in 2002, it operated in 54 countries and had $2.8 billion in revenue.
		Wackenhut was an outspoken political conservative with ties to powerful Republicans and high-ranking leaders of the military, FBI and CIA.
		Wackenhut was present at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A54899-2005Jan6.html (931 words)

	Wackenhut Corporation - A patriot, or a partner in executive crime?
		Wackenhut Corporation has its roots dating abck to 1954, when George Wackenhut and three other former special agents of the FBI formed a company in Miami.
		Both Wackenhut and Nichols were interested in developing new range of high tech weapons, powerful explosives devices that like a nuclear blast could produce strong electromagnetic pulse to wipe out enemy communication and electronics.
		George Wackenhut's right wing tendencies are all too clear in "Wackenhut Security Review" a monthly in house publication, wherein any anti-Vietnam movements were considered subversive, and earned him the George Washington Honor Medal in 1962, and the Freedom Foundation Award at Valley Forge, PA, both in 1965 and 1966.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Vault/6291/govment5.htm (1866 words)

	pogo.org Wackenhut Guards Almost Shot During Nuclear Security Test 10/23/2004 Project On Government Oversight
		Also at Y-12 last month, six Wackenhut guards were practicing reload techniques with their nine millimeter semiautomatic hand guns with dummy bullets.
		Wackenhut has also been criticized for partnering with Native Alaskan corporations which have no security experience in order to acquire no-bid government contracts.
		Wackenhut has been plagued by a number of performance controversies in recent years as well.
	www.pogo.org /p/homeland/ha-041003-Y12.html (768 words)

	Thomas T. Tiller v. Wackenhut Services, Inc.
		Tiller that he was being removed from his position as Labor Relations Manager because he had violated Wackenhut's Conflict of Interest Policy; that Wackenhut would offer him placement in the position of Personnel Security Supervisor, which had a salary less than that of the position from which he was being removed; that if Mr.
		He alleged that Wackenhut demoted him from Labor Relations Manager to Personnel Security Supervisor in retaliation for his disclosing that XXXXXXX had accepted stolen telephone wire and free installation of that wire from the local union representative.
		Wackenhut would have been justified in terminating him for violating the company's Conflict of Interest Policy; instead, it reassigned him to the only other position that was available at the time.
	www.oha.doe.gov /cases/whistle/ds0018.htm (2394 words)

	Wackenhut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Palm Beach Gardens, FL - Year after year, Wackenhut delivers unrivaled security and related services to a growing list of commercial, industrial and government organizations.
		The growth of its client base and high customer and employee retention is the result of the unmatched integrity, professionalism and quality associated with Wackenhut service offerings.
		Wackenhut offers career opportunities for quality men and women.
	www.wackenhut.com (114 words)

	CorpWatch : US: Wackenhut's Free Market in Human Misery
		And in New Mexico, Wackenhut's two prisons, barely open a year, have experienced riots, 9 stabbings and 5 murders, including, two weeks ago, the killing of a guard.
		It wasn't a mistake, but Wackenhut's cut-rate Jails-R-Us policy; one guard in a "pod" and two prisoners packed in each cell.
		With low pay for dangerous work, one court official told me, Wackenhut fills the hiring gap with ex-cons who get through lax background checks and teenage guards, some too young to qualify for a driver's license.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=868 (1300 words)

	Wackenhut News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		August 24, 2006 The owner of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant is seeking to take over management of the plant's security from Wackenhut Corp., the nationwide company that currently provides more than 100...
		Wackenhut, the largest private security contractor to the federal government, is under investigation over allegations they falsified training records at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Reservation,...
		Wackenhut Corporation Honored by the Department of Defense at...
	www.topix.net /com/whc (697 words)

	Private Prisons:Profits of Crime
		CCA and Wackenhut Corrections Corporation dominate the upper tier, control more than half the industry's operations, and run 29 minimum- and medium-security facilities with more than 10,000 beds.
		Wackenhut, founded by former FBI of ficial George Wackenhut in 1954, is the largest and best known, as well as the oldest and most diversified.
		Wackenhut maintains two medium security prisons in Australia and boasts of "prospects for additional facilities in the U.S., South America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim.'' While some of its competitors in the private repression industry have specialized-Pinkerton and Burns, for example, lead the "rent-a-cop" field-Wackenhut tries to cover all the bases.
	mediafilter.org /caq/Prison.html (3352 words)

	Scoop: Wackenhut, repackaged and "innocently disguised"
		Wackenhut's shady past is marred by controversy, not just in Australia under its subsidiary ACM, with abuse and human rights violations, resulting in hunger strikes, riots and escapes.
		Wackenhut Corrections Corp., the parent company of private security firm Australasian Correctional Management (ACM), which ran six Australian immigration detention centres from 1998-2002 -- and whose tenure there was marked by shocking allegations of human rights abuses and other problems -- might soon return to manage the centres.
		Wackenhut Corrections announced it was changing its name to The Geo Group, Inc. on 1 December 2003.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0403/S00233.htm (1462 words)

	Not With Our Money - Industry
		WCC was founded in 1894 as a division of The Wackenhut Corporation.
		While the company promised that Sara would get intensive counseling and education, her family later discovered that she had been raped almost nightly by one of the guards.
		Sara’s family filed a suit against Wackenhut that was joined by eleven other girls who had been sexually abused at Coke County.
	www.notwithourmoney.org /03_prisons/wackenhut.html (364 words)

	EyeOnWackenhut -- Featured Stories:
		The plant is guarded by Wackenhut Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Wackenhut Corporation, which is in turn a subsidiary of the foreign-owned security conglomerate, Group 4 Securicor.
		According to the Associated Press, security officers at a riverfront Army ammunition plant guarded by Wackenhut Services, Inc. (WSI) allege that boaters have entered restricted areas, holes are often found in a perimeter fence and security is stepped up to impress inspectors.
		The Wackenhut Corporation, the second largest private security company in the US, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the London-based Group 4 Securicor.
	www.eyeonwackenhut.com (1421 words)

	Wackenhut’s ViCommSM Hotline Service Relocates to Palm Beach Gardens Headquarters Office
		For over 20 years, Wackenhut has provided employees with a confidential, anonymous outlet to report concerns of wrongdoing in the workplace to highly trained communications specialists.
		The Wackenhut Corporation, founded in 1954, is the leading provider of business services to major corporations, government agencies, and a wide range of industrial and commercial customers.
		Wackenhut is the U.S. based division of Group 4 Falck, one of the world’s largest providers of security and related services.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2003/5/emw65615.php (1215 words)

	The Wackenhut Lawsuit Attorney \| Lawyer New York Wackenhut Security Guards Seek Overtime Pay
		The action is brought on behalf of all security guards employed by Wackenhut who were not paid overtime hours for time worked during "the turnover" period, or the time when relief guards came in to take over duties from the outgoing guards.
		The guards assert that Wackenhut was well aware that they were violating federal and state law and that their conduct was willful and intentional.
		According to the guards, Wackenhut is one of the nation's largest private security companies and the potential class of claimants in New York is quite numerous.
	www.lawcash.com /attorney/3023/the-wackenhut-lawsuit.asp (908 words)

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