March 2009 - Posts

Residents Behaving Badly
March 24, 2009 2:15 PM by Tony DeWitt

While it is important to control media's access to a facility (see recent blog post), it is also prudent to recognize that in many cases, the media derives information from other sources, like police reports, and that staff members should be careful about Read More...

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Handling the Media
March 17, 2009 3:35 PM by Tony DeWitt

One thing facilities need to be better about, judging from the frequent lambasting that the industry takes in the news media and before congress, is dealing with the media. It is not uncommon for a facility to get served with a lawsuit, which gets released Read More...

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If It Sounds Too Good To Be True…
March 11, 2009 10:30 AM by Tony DeWitt

I often tell clients "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Nowhere is that more prophetic than in the phony "debt elimination" service scams currently being run around the country. Whenever there are more debtors, there are more people who Read More...

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