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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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Mississippi DOC Issues Almost $300 Million  in No-Bid Contracts to VitalCore Health

Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025

Filed under: Private Contractors

nearly $300 million—all with the same healthcare contractor, VitalCore Health Strategies. In July 2020, after the DOC’s former contractor, Centurion Health, opted to terminate its contract ...

Houston Detainees Shipped to Private Jails in Mississippi and Louisiana

Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024

Filed under: Private Prisons

unequal bargaining power, where the agency isn’t really able to meaningfully enforce whatever standards the private prison may have agreed to,” said David Fathi, director of the American Civil ...

Harris County Shipping Detainees from Overcrowded Jail to Mississippi CoreCivic Prison

Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Overcrowding

Harris County Shipping Detainees from Overcrowded Jail to Mississippi CoreCivic Prison by On December 1, 2023, Harris County, Texas, began sending up to 360 detainees from the county’s jails to a prison in Mississippi, under a contract with its private operator, CoreCivic. The County Commissioners Court approved the $11.3 million …

MTC Returns $5.125 Million to Mississippi for “Ghost Workers” at Private Prisons

Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Contractor Misconduct, Corrections Audits, Staffing, Guards/Staff

MTC Returns $5.125 Million to Mississippi for “Ghost Workers” at Private Prisons by Utah-based Management & Training Corporation (MTC) announced on September 18, 2023, that it returned ...

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 ...

Mississippi Demands $1.9 Million From MTC For Short-Staffing Private State Prison

Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Staffing, Fines

demand for payment of $1.9 million to Utah-based private prison operator Management and Training Corporation (MTC) for violating its contractual agreement to fully staff the Marshall County Correctional ...

Three Killed in Gang Activity at Mississippi Private Prisons Plus High-Profile Escape, But Only One MTC Guard Arrested

Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Guard Misconduct, Prison Gangs, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)

Three Killed in Gang Activity at Mississippi Private Prisons Plus High-Profile Escape, But Only One MTC Guard Arrested by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Though a state investigation concluded ...

History Professor Fired After Criticizing University’s Racist Past and Pro-Prison Present

Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

, a private-prison company. Charles Overby is a celebrated instructor of journalism at UM. Among these other accolades, Overby served as the executive editor of the Jackson, MS newspaper, The Clarion-Ledger ...

Centurion Opts Out of Mississippi Prison Medical Contract

Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021

Filed under: Centurion

Centurion Opts Out of Mississippi Prison Medical Contract by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Citing Mississippi’s refusal to invest in prison facilities and staff, private medical ...

Audit Finds Mississippi Private Prison Plagued by Violence, Run by Gangs

Article • October 4, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Management and Training Corporation, Prison Gangs

prison to maintain control of the facility. That was one finding of a December 2018 internal audit by Management & Training Corporation (MTC) at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility (WCCF), which ...

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 ...

DOJ Audit Rips Privately-operated Federal Facility; Trump Administration Presses Forward

Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Corrections Audits, Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Food, Staffing

agency within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), issued an audit of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ contract with private prisoner company CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation ...

Mississippi Closes Troubled Former Youth Prison

Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Management and Training Corporation, Guard Misconduct, Cost of Prison Systems, Juvenile Prisons

Mississippi Closes Troubled Former Youth Prison by Citing budgetary cuts, the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) finally closed the troubled, privately-operated Walnut Grove Correctional Facility (WGCF) on September 15, 2016. As previously reported in PLN, Walnut Grove had been under a federal consent decree since 2012 over allegations of guards …

Extensive Contraband Found During Shakedowns at Mississippi Prisons

Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Prison/Common Area Searches, Prisoner Property

was the start of “Operation Zero Tolerance,” which includes surprise searches at prisons statewide. Shakedowns were performed at the state’s two other private prisons – the East ...

“Deal with the Devil” Turning on Mississippi Counties

Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Prison Labor, Cost of Prison Systems

revenue, which threatened the counties’ ability to make payments on the bonds issued to finance construction of the facilities. County officials also pointed to competition from private prisons ...

Hood v. Branan, MI, Settlement, 2017

Brief • May 16, 2017

Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Medical, Private Contractors

Hood v. Branan, MI, Settlement, 2017

Adams County After Action Report, fBOP, 2012

Publication • December 29, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Corrections Audits, Prison Rebellion, Guard Brutality/Beatings

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Audit of the fBOP’s Contract with CoreCivic to Operate the Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, MI, OIG, 2016

Publication • December 29, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Corrections Audits, Prison Rebellion

directed the BOP to begin reducing, and ultimately end, its use of privately operated prisons. The memorandum concluded that private prisons “simply do not provide the same level of correctional services ...

Class-action Certified in Challenge to Treatment of Mentally Ill Mississippi Prisoners

Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Failure to Treat, Sanitation, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Class Certification, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

]. The facility is operated by private prison firm Management & Training Corp.; it was previously operated by GEO Group before the company discontinued its contracts in Mississippi in 2012. [See: PLN, Nov. 2013 ...

Private Prison Company Not Liable for Guard's Death in Riot

Article • November 1, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Rebellion, Failure to Protect (General), Contractor Liability, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Failure to Protect (Staff)

Private Prison Company Not Liable for Guard's Death in Riot by Lonnie Burton Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) successfully moved in federal court to dismiss a suit brought ...

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