John Dacey Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

Phoenix, Arizona Area

For the last seven years John has been building a litigation challenge to the constitutionality of private for-profit prisons. He founded Abolish Private Prisons, a 501(c)(3) Arizona nonprofit corporation, in 2015 and became its Executive Director in 2016. The organization's website can be found at www.abolishprivateprisons.org.The US and state governments have created a system that promotes incarceration to drive profit. Prisoners are calculated as growth commodities on corporate… Show more For the last seven years John has been building a litigation challenge to the constitutionality of private for-profit prisons. He founded Abolish Private Prisons, a 501(c)(3) Arizona nonprofit corporation, in 2015 and became its Executive Director in 2016. The organization's website can be found at www.abolishprivateprisons.org.The US and state governments have created a system that promotes incarceration to drive profit. Prisoners are calculated as growth commodities on corporate balance sheets. Shareholders are fiscally rewarded when private prison populations increase. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is the largest for profit prison. The following is taken from their public 10K filings: "Available Beds within Our Existing Facilities. As of December 31, 2013, we had approximately 13,200 unoccupied beds in facilities that had availability of 100 or more beds. We have staff throughout the organization actively engaged in marketing this available capacity to existing and prospective customers. Historically, we have been successful in substantially filling our inventory of available beds and the beds that we have constructed. Filling these available beds would provide substantial growth in revenues, cash flow, and earnings per share."This practice is inherently-flawed and filled with economic conflicts of interest that additionally violate "life and liberty" guarantees under the Constitution of the United States. Incarceration-for-profit is the new slavery. Show less

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Representation of many Arizona hospitals and disability providers concerning health care reimbursement including Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) and Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS), Indian Health Services, insurance and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); significant experience in administrative hearings for various providers concerning regulatory compliance and reimbursement; complex litigation; lobbying and rule-making; continuing service to providers… Show more Representation of many Arizona hospitals and disability providers concerning health care reimbursement including Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) and Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS), Indian Health Services, insurance and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); significant experience in administrative hearings for various providers concerning regulatory compliance and reimbursement; complex litigation; lobbying and rule-making; continuing service to providers of health, education and social services as outside primary counsel in various capacities including strategic planning, non-profit governance, employment, insurance, contracts and problem solving. His work includes trials in state, federal, and tribal courts. John served as a state court judge pro tem, a federal court-appointed mediator to mediate inmate lawsuits over medical care and religious freedoms, and as adjunct faculty at the Arizona State University Law School. Most of John's pro bono work for the last five years concerns criminal justice reform, especially building a litigation challenge to the constitutionality of private for-profit prisons. He founded Abolish Private Prisons, a 501(c)(3) Arizona nonprofit corporation, in 2015. Show less

Successfully litigated class actions concerning long-term care and special education services for persons with developmental disabilities; drafted and lobbied for passage of legislation pertaining to the Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS), including the program for persons with developmental disabilities; helped write and ensure passage of proposed legislation for Governor Mofford's Task Force on AIDS and served as Chairman of the Governor's AIDS Advisory Council; served as the consumer… Show more Successfully litigated class actions concerning long-term care and special education services for persons with developmental disabilities; drafted and lobbied for passage of legislation pertaining to the Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS), including the program for persons with developmental disabilities; helped write and ensure passage of proposed legislation for Governor Mofford's Task Force on AIDS and served as Chairman of the Governor's AIDS Advisory Council; served as the consumer advocate on the AHCCCS (Medicaid) Medical Advisory Council; wrote and lobbied for passage of legislation creating medical malpractice insurance subsidies that were designed to assure the availability of prenatal care in medically underserved areas. Show less

Successfully litigated multiple class actions on behalf of Medicaid ("AHCCCS") beneficiaries, tenants, welfare recipients and prisoners (jail conditions); successfully lobbied for passage of laws that protected the interests of the poor in housing and health care; handled caseloads typical for poverty law programs: housing, including evictions and foreclosures; consumer debts; eligibility for Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment benefits and other welfare programs; school enrollment and… Show more Successfully litigated multiple class actions on behalf of Medicaid ("AHCCCS") beneficiaries, tenants, welfare recipients and prisoners (jail conditions); successfully lobbied for passage of laws that protected the interests of the poor in housing and health care; handled caseloads typical for poverty law programs: housing, including evictions and foreclosures; consumer debts; eligibility for Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment benefits and other welfare programs; school enrollment and discipline. Show less

J.D., Law

B. A., History