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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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members include private prisons companies such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections), Management and Training Corp. (MTC), Cornell Corrections (acquired ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
CMS Pays $275,000 in New York Prisoner’s Jail Death by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a lawsuit related to a prisoner’s death. The suit, which ...
issued a bench ruling directing Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm, to produce records in a long-standing public records lawsuit filed against the company ...
Publication • January 1, 2012
in general and prison health services specifically, is not one of regular savings. Numerous examples in a variety of sectors show that projected savings don’t always materialize. Cost overruns combined ...
Cross v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Complaint, CCA guards allowed inmate assault, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0309 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0310 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0311
prisons in Tennessee from January 2009 to June 2011, incident rates were consistently higher at the state’s three private prisons. Those were the findings released on October 18, 2011 by the Private ...
for Profit: A Look at Prison Privatization, which draws strongly on the experiences of other states with heavily-privatized prison systems. The report concludes that privately-operated prisons result in little ...
) in a suit filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking copies of contracts between the BOP and private prison companies for the detention of non-U.S. citizens convicted of federal crimes ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
and take away the very resources needed to correct the problem. Especially in danger would be the plans of GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison company, to build a 650-bed facility ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
CMS Nurses Disciplined in Kentucky Prisoner’s Death by The Kentucky Board of Nursing has disciplined two nurses who were on duty when a prisoner died one day after he was booked ...
facilities and the private contractors like CCA who run them, and tragedies like this are the unfortunate result,” said ACLU Deputy Legal Director Vanita Gupta. “It is long past time to close the book ...
a urologist at Cermak Health Services of Cook County who diagnosed Mr. Jones as suffering from chronic epididymitis. Mr. Jones was prescribed antibiotics and, when those proved ineffective in treating his ...
Clemons v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Complaint, CCA medical neglect pregnant inmate infant death, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0384 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0385 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0386 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0387 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0388 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0389 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0390 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0391 CCA-AF (6/2/14 …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Pennsylvania Councilman Takes Private Prison Company’s Donation, then Opposes Detention Center by A $3,000 campaign contribution from private prison firm GEO Group has put a spotlight ...
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
following an escape from one of the company’s private prisons. On April 2, 2007, prisoner Billy Jack Fitzmorris, held at the CCA-run Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, was taken to a hospital in Youngstown ...
Eighth Circuit Upholds Denial of Qualified Immunity on Medical Claims Against CMS by On July 20, 2010, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in part a district court’s denial ...
ICE, CCA Settle ACLU Lawsuit Regarding Health Care for Immigration Detainees by Derek Gilna A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union that alleged deficiencies in health care at the San Diego Correctional Facility (SDCF) in Otay Mesa, California has been settled, according to a December 16, 2010 press …
Marlin Riggs filed a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that prison officials at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), which is run by private prison firm Corrections Corp. of America (CCA ...
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
guilty to crimes without representation by attorneys. Prosecutors alleged that Ciavarella had sentenced thousands of juveniles to be confined in two private detention centers – PA Child Care and Western ...
Article • November 15, 2011
action brought against a private prison operator. Ravenswood Investment Company (RIC), a limited partner to Avalon Correctional Services, sued Avalon alleging that the CEO of Avalon, Donald Smith, had ...
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