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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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PLN Publisher Wins Settlement Records from Centurion 
in Florida Prisoner’s Wrongful Death by Chuck Sharman On June 24, 2025, Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit Court for Putnam County ...
HRDC Wins $480,000 in Legal Fees from Centurion for Denied New Mexico Records by Chuck Sharman On February 17, 2025, Paul Wright, Executive Director of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC ...
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 ...
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill to Penalize Private Prisons 
for High Mortality Rates by In April 2025, the Tennessee General Assembly passed SB 1115, legislation that imposes penalties ...
Sixth Circuit Order Sealing Records 
in Private Prison Shareholder Suit 
Vacated, Remanded by As of 2016, CoreCivic—formerly Corrections Corp. of America—contracted ...
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Gave Massive Handouts to ICE and Private Prison Industry by On July 4, 2025,President Donald Trump (R) signed into law a budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1 ...
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Shady Firm Awarded $78 Million Contract for Services at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” by An obscure consulting firm in Jacksonville, Florida was awarded a $78 million contract in early July 2025 to provide a range of critical services at a hastily built immigrant detention center in the Everglades, dubbed by state …
Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arizona Challenge 
to Private Prisons by In 2020, the Arizona chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and two ...
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Trump’s “Border Czar” Was on GEO Group Payroll by Before Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) took office, his “border czar” Tom Homan worked as a consultant for GEO Group, Inc., one of the largest operators of immigrant detention facilities in the country.  The revelation, as the Washington Post reported, raises …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
; since January 2014, at least. Community Educations Centers, Inc./GEO Group, Inc. operated the jail between January 2014 and sometime in 2019, when CSG took over, and Malone has been the contract monitor ...
Seventh Circuit Revives Former Illinois Prisoner’s Claim for Delayed Hepatitis-C Treatment by David Reutter On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a former Illinois prisoner’s deliberate indifference claim against a healthcare provider contracted by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) could proceed …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Former Centurion Owner Accused of Helping Florida Governor Kill Legalized Weed by D uring a hearing on April 9, 2025, Florida lawmakers pieced together an elaborate money trail from ...
that private prison healthcare giant Centurion allegedly ignored, officials with the company agreed to an undisclosed settlement and claims were dismissed on March 27, 2025. That left claims by Elmer Williams ...
CoreCivic Will Cage Migrant Families in Texas Lockup by On March 5, 2025, private prison operator CoreCivic, Inc. announced a new contract with United States Immigration and Customs ...
GEO Group Gets $1 Billion ICE Contract at New Jersey Lockup by On February 26, 2025, then-acting federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Caleb Vitello announced a 15-year contract with The GEO Group, Inc. to reopen and expand its Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, which will …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
by their privately contracted provider, NaphCare, Inc. One detainee at the Pierce County Jail in Tacoma lost his leg in 2018 after NaphCare staffers allegedly missed a blod clot that led to an infection, ultimately ...
Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm by Historically, prisons and jails have been loathe to give prisoners access to technology. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) didn’t even allow prisoners regular access to telephone calls until 2009. Access to internet-based services, which the non-incarcerated take for granted, is …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Sixth Circuit Upholds $6.4 Million Jury Award Against Corizon Nurses For Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Alcohol Withdrawal by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 16, 2024, the United ...
investigation into Tennessee’s troubled Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC), which is operated for the state Department of Corrections (DOC) under contract by private prison profiteer CoreCivic, Inc ...
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
: Eat standard meals or nothing. At Huachuca Unit in Kingman, which is run for DCRR by private prison contractor The GEO Group, cooking allegedly ceased, and prisoners were fed uncooked food. Prisoners ...
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