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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 • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
obtained documents revealing that private prison operator GEO Group, Inc., formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp., paid $10 million to settle two lawsuits brought by the family of a prisoner who ...
distribution and theft. The jail, managed by Ruston-based LaSalle Management Company, was earlier the site where a handicapped detainee was allegedly neglected and mistreated by staff of previous operator ...
Seventh Circuit Refuses to Hold Wexford Liable for Prisoner’s Pain from Medical Transports in “Black Box” Restraint by David Reutter David M. Reutter For prison officials and healthcare providers who refused to grant an Illinois prisoner an exemption from wearing “black box restraints” during medical transport, a federal district court …
Cause of Prisoner’s Death in Tennessee CoreCivic Jail Finally Revealed as Homicide by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Laeddie Coleman was the second prisoner brutally stabbed at Tennessee’s Hardeman County Correctional Facility (HCCF) on September 7, 2021. The first, Devin Jamison, was allegedly stabbed 15 times with a …
Article • June 27, 2022
award to an Illinois prisoner against private prison healthcare contractor Wexford Health Sources for deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. See: Dean v. Wexford Health Sources, 2022 U.S ...
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Illinois Department of Corrections Cancels Contract with Canteen Provider Keefe by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On December 14, 2021, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) canceled its contract with the Keefe Group as provider of prison commissary items. The next day, the state’s chief procurement officer, Ellen Daley, released …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
at the jail, which is run for the county by Tennessee-based private prison operator CoreCivic. In 2021 alone, CCDF recorded six deaths, including two previously reported by PLN: the suicide of Lisa Ann Trombley ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$316,673 Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Stabbing at GEO-Operated Private Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 1, 2021, the New Mexico Corrections Department ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
) paid more than $15 million to private prison operator GEO Group for deportation flights to repatriate thousands of Haitian migrants. The contract covered 44 charter flights from Texas to Haiti over a two ...
of the Currency that was highly critical of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and Nashville-based private prison giant CoreCivic, which operates several prisons for DOC. See: Tenn. Comptroller ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
2030. With it, the private prison contractor agreed to fill at least twelve day posts, eight night posts and thirteen 40-hour-a-week posts. After the firm flew in reinforcements, it said that CCDF ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion
Centurion Health Supplants Corizon in Missouri After Court Ruling by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders After a trial on November 3, 2021, a Missouri court ruled in favor of the state Department ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
in private practice. If private prisoner medical care providers are not entitled to raise a QI defense, the Court was without jurisdiction to hear their interlocutory appeal or that of their employees. Thus ...
the firm is ordered to pay to $37.6 million by Matt Clarke On December 14, 2021, a Washington federal court issued additional orders in lawsuits against Florida-based private prison operator GEO Group ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
’s private medical contractor, Centurion Health. In the suit, plaintiffs Richard West and Joseph Bruyette, on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated state prisoners, alleged that DAA ...
Private Prison Firm Revenues Soar on “Tailwind” of Immigrant Detainees by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 5 ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Ninth Circuit Overturns California Law Banning Private Prisons by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On October 5, 2021, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Federal Court Sanctions Wexford for Discovery Abuse in Illinois Prisoner’s Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 3, 2021, a federal court in Illinois granted a state prisoner’s motion for sanctions against Wexford Health Sources for responding to a specific discovery request by providing 272,000 pages of documents …
Virginia DOC Terminates Contract with Armor Correctional Healthcare by Ashleigh Dye Plans to de-privatize prisoner healthcare by Ashleigh Dye On December 11, 2021, the Virginia Department ...
HRDC Wins Appeal in Florida Public Records Request Case Against Armor Correctional Health Services by In an opinion reached on December 1, 2021, Florida’s Third District Court ...
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