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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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, Wexford Health Services, settling claims he filed against them over amputation of his toes and part of his foot. The partial amputation allegedly resulted from inadequate medical care that Renney received ...
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
, 2018, when he bit down on something hard and broke a tooth. At the time, for-­profit provisions company Aramark held “the exclusive right to provide food service” to “the County ...
$2.75 Million Paid by Washington County and NaphCare for Death of “Floridly Psychotic” Detainee Left Untreated in Jail for Months by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A $2.75 million ...
Ninth Circuit Hands Partial Victory to NaphCare, Remanding Much of $27 Million Jury Verdict in Washington Jail Death Case by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Court ...
with private prison profiteer CoreCivic, Inc. by $13 million. On November 4, 2025, DOC head Frank Strada presented an annual budget request for the agency that nearly doubled the amount of money Tennessee paid ...
of Montana returned a verdict on April 2, 2025, awarding $27.75 million in damages to former state prisoner Nathaniel Lake, after finding that staff of private prison giant CoreCivic failed to protect him from ...
resolved by the agreement had all been filed by the Estate against jail healthcare contractor NaphCare Inc., whose medical personnel were present during the extraction yet failed to provide lifesaving ...
Federal Government, CoreCivic Slow-Walk Class-Action Challenges to Forced Labor of ICE Detainees by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Two legal challenges to forced labor for minimal or no pay, which were mounted by detainees held for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), were gaining steam when Pres. Donald J. Trump …
San Diego County Files Unusual Suit Against NaphCare Over Jail Detainee’s Murder by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 18, 2025, less than a month after losing a bid to dismiss ...
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
, since October 2020; Centurion Health, from July 2016 to October 2020; and Wexford Health Sources, from June 2006 to June 2016. Defendant Dr. Gloria Perry, who was serially employed by all three Defendant ...
medical provider, Centurion Health. The prisoner who shared copies of the agreements with PLN requested anonymity to protect his portion of the latter payout, which was confidential. A bacterial pneumonia ...
Department of Corrections health services provider Wexford Health Sources, Inc. for deliberate indifference to his mental health needs by failing to advocate for his removal from administrative segregation ...
Mesa detention center, a 1,400-bed lockup operated under contract by for-profit private prison giant CoreCivic. By that time, the COVID-19 pandemic was underway, and several employees and migrant ...
the state district court’s dismissal of pretrial detainee David North’s claim that CoreCivic, the private prison operator, violated his due process rights under the Nevada Constitution by failing ...
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 ...
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