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This site contains over 2,000 news articles, legal briefs and publications related to for-profit companies that provide correctional services. Most of the content under the "Articles" tab below is from our Prison Legal News site. PLN, a monthly print publication, has been reporting on criminal justice-related issues, including prison privatization, since 1990. If you are seeking pleadings or court rulings in lawsuits and other legal proceedings involving private prison companies, search under the "Legal Briefs" tab. For reports, audits and other publications related to the private prison industry, search using the "Publications" tab.

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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Male Reproductive, Malpractice, Escapes, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Juvenile Prisons, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Bribery/Extortion/Theft

prisoner phone use at the lockup, which is operated for the state DOC under contract by private prison giant CoreCivic. Lawson urged the state to assume control of the troubled prison. Texas: On June 6 ...

CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail

Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), State Law Claims

Braddy accused private prison profiteer CoreCivic of negligence that resulted in his stabbing at Leavenworth Detention Center (LDC), a now-shuttered lockup formerly operated for the federal government ...

Two Kansas Prison Guards Fired, Six Disciplined for Mocking Injured Prisoner and Refusing Her Help

Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024

Filed under: Corizon, Centurion, Guard Misconduct, Failure to Treat

denied any systemic issues with the prison or its medical care provider, Centurion Health. DOC tapped Centurion Health to replace Corizon Health, saying it hoped to improve a poor quality of care ...

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare

Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024

Filed under: MHM Inc., Corizon, Centurion, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Retaliation, Systemic Medical Neglect, Cancer, Private Contractors, Frivolous Litigation, Disclosure of Records, Declaratory Judgment, Public Records, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, PLN Litigation, Censorship, Articles About PLN, Public Records Act, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), HRDC Litigation

is far from unique in this regard. As hundreds of stories in PLN and many other media outlets over the last 20 years attest, Corizon Health, Wexford, PrimeCare and other private prison healthcare ...

Tenth Circuit Rejects Government’s Appeal Over Recorded Attorney Calls and Visits at Private Prison in Leavenworth

Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Attorney Client, Attorney Calls, Recordings

Tenth Circuit Rejects Government’s Appeal Over Recorded Attorney Calls and Visits at Private Prison in Leavenworth by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Over five years ago, federal prosecutors ...

Huff et al. v. CoreCivic, Inc. and Securus, KS, Preliminary Settlement, Attorney Client Calls Taped, 2019

Brief • August 23, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Attorney Fee Awards, Attorney Client, First Amendment, rights

/a Corrections Corporation of America (“CoreCivic”) and Securus Technologies, Inc. (“Securus”), (together referred to herein as “Defendants”), as defined below. WHEREAS, Plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit ...

Kansas Slaps Corizon Health with Millions in Fines for Contract Violations

Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corizon

Kansas Slaps Corizon Health with Millions in Fines for Contract Violations by Chad Marks by Chad Marks “They don’t care who dies, how they die or what they do to you.&rdquo ...

JP Morgan Chase Bank Used Secretive Bonds to Finance Kansas Prison Construction

Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

that, in June 2018, JP Morgan Chase Bank (JPMC) underwrote a $159.5 million bond to finance private prison operator CoreCivic’s construction of a 2,432-bed facility in Kansas. JPMC was already the largest ...

Kansas Prisoner Who Warned “Something is Eating my Brain” Dies of Untreated Brain Infection

Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018

Filed under: Corizon, Brain Injury, Failure to Treat, Infections, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Marques Davis filed suit in federal district court in October 2017, alleging that officials at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility and the prison’s for-profit medical care provider, Corizon Health ...

In the Public Interest - An Examination of Private Financing for Correctional and Immigration Detention Facilities, 2018

Publication • June 1, 2018

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Staff Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Prison Industries, Workplace Injury, Work Conditions/Safety, Prison Gangs, Staffing, Security Systems, Guard Brutality/Beatings

private prison companies, CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA) and GEO Group, are actively pushing governments to consider the use of private financing to build new facilities ...

OIG Report Slams CoreCivic’s Management of Leavenworth Prison

Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

) strongly criticized private prison company CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America), which operates the Leavenworth Detention Center (LDC) in Kansas. The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS ...

Huff et al. v. CoreCivic, Inc. and Securus, KS, Complaint, Attorney Client Calls Taped, 2017

Brief • June 1, 2017

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Attorney Client, Prisoner Privileges, First Amendment, rights

Huff et al. v. CoreCivic, Inc. and Securus, KS, Complaint, Attorney Client Calls Taped, 2017 Case 2:17-cv-02320-JAR-JPO Document 1 Filed 06/01/17 Page 1 of 11 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS Ashley Huff and Gregory Rapp, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, …

CCA Prison Caught Recording Attorney-Client Meetings, Sharing Videos with Prosecutors

Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Attorney Visits

, seeking to enlarge his investigation into whether the Leavenworth Detention Center (LDC) and the private contractor that operates the facility, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA, which recently ...

Judge Orders End to Recording of Attorney-Client Meetings at CCA’s Leavenworth Detention Center

Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Jail Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Attorney Client, Telephone Monitoring

Judge Orders End to Recording of Attorney-Client Meetings at CCA’s Leavenworth Detention Center by Derek Gilna The Kansas Federal Public Defenders’ Office has challenged a scheme whereby officials at a detention center in Leavenworth, Kansas operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) secretly video-recorded confidential attorney-client meetings. As a result, …

Kansas: Prison Healthcare Officials Engaged in Continued Deliberate Indifference

Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Eighth Amendment

; by Robert Warlick The Kansas Court of Appeals held that employees of Correct Care Solutions at the Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) committed continuing Eighth Amendment violations by withholding ...

Rippee v. Shawnee County, KS, Settlement, Jail-Medication Overdose Death, 2012

Brief • January 10, 2013

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Corizon, Drug Overdose, Jail Specific, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Rippee, deceased, and Charlotte Rippee, as an Heir at Law ofJohn Bradley Rippee, deceased, v. Prison Health Services, Inc., now known as Corizon Health, Inc., a Delaware Corporation and Patty Rice ...

Settlement in Class-Action Suit Against CCA Modified After PLN Unseals Court Documents

Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Class Notice, Federal Statutory Law, Fair Labor Standards Act, Employee Litigation

largest private prison firm, had settled a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Kansas that raised claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on behalf of current and former CCA employees ...

PLN Prevails in Motion to Unseal Settlement in CCA Class Action FLSA Case

Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Settlements, Disclosure of Records, Intervention, PLN Litigation, Guards/Staff, Employee Litigation

in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm. On July 27, 2009, Prison Legal News had filed a motion to intervene in the suit ...

Sexual Abuse by Prison and Jail Staff Proves Persistent, Pandemic

Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cornell Corrections, GRW Corp., Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution

and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a private prison operated by GRW Corp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit ...

Tenth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Suit for Failure to Prove Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies

Article • May 15, 2009

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, PLRA, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA)

“available” administrative remedies. See: Purkey v. CCA, USDC, D. Kan., No. 03-3157-CM (Aug. 19, 2008) ...

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