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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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with the most fines have happened since November 2024. The fines are indicative that, rather than improving, privatized prison medical care in Kansas is worsening. In 2022, Kansas News Service investigated DOC ...
indifference to Jung’s serious medical need, in violation of his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The complaint noted that YesCare, then known as Corizon Health, had committed when signing its 2021 ...
; The Colorado legislature was presented with two options for the potential new prison: buying and reviving a closed private prison or contracting with a private prison company to reopen a separate facility ...
by private prison profiteer LaSalle Corrections. It is not clear if the prison is still being used to detain immigrants.     Source: Searchlight New Mexico, Texas Tribune ...
of prisoners out of state to a private prison in Arizona. The transfer is intended to reduce overcrowding at the 10 prisons controlled by the DOC, according to a statement released by the agency. One hundred ...
$2.75 Million Paid by Washington County and NaphCare for Jail Detainee’s Suicide by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The story repeats with depressing regularity. It begins with a man ...
Houston Jail Renews $38 Million Contract to Outsource Detainees to Private Lockups by On March 19, 2026, commissioners in Harris County renewed a $38 million contract to send detainees out of Texas to private facilities controlled by companies like CoreCivic. For years, the Harris County Jail has outsourced detainees in …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Tulsa Jail Withholds Records Related to Detainee Deaths by The Frontier, a non-profit investigative news outlet in Oklahoma, recently found that seven detainees died from preventable causes in Tulsa’s municipal jail over a three-year period. These deaths occurred due to causes such as overdoses, suicides, an infection, and at least …
Officials in Kansas Allow CoreCivic to Reopen Leavenworth Prison by After a yearlong fight by advocates to prevent private prison profiteer CoreCivic from reopening its prison ...
Montana Switches to Sending Prisoners to a Private Prison in Mississippi by The Montana state Department of Corrections (DOC) announced on March 23, 2026 that it will no longer send ...
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Analysts Recommend Closing California’s Soledad Prison by With California’s declining prison population and a growing state budget deficit, the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), a nonpartisan agency that provides policy advice to the state lawmakers, has recommended closing the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad. While the California Department of Corrections and …
ICE Taps New Contractor to Run Deadly Detention Center in Texas by In early March, the administration of President Donald Trump (R) announced that it planned to offer a no-bid contract to an engineering and electronic services company to run the United States’s largest immigrant detention center, where one detainee …
at least seven reported cases of sexual assault that occured at Otay Mesa immigration detention center, a facility run by private prison profiteer CoreCivic that locks up nearly 1,500 federal immigration ...
Private Prison Firm GEO Group Reports Record $254 Million Profit After New ICE Contracts by Brett Wilkins by Brett Wilkins This article was originally published in Common Dreams. &nbsp ...
.   Whether prisoners die while in state custody is not used to measure the performance of Missouri’s private prison health care contractor, the state’s top corrections official told ...
court order. The Texas detention facility is run by CoreCivic, the Nashville-based private prison profiteer with a long track record of guard beatings, medical neglect, and inhumane conditions. [See: PLN ...
Terrill Thomas who, in 2016, spent a week in his cell without water. After Armor was axed, Marceno signed a replacement three-year contract with NaphCare Inc., a larger private healthcare entity ...
, 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 ...
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