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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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. Medical care at the facility was provided by Tennessee-based Correct Care Solutions, LLC, which was also criticized by the BOP OIG report for its persistent short-staffing, which raised  Correct-Cares ...
on taxpayers. Everyone on Wall Street, meanwhile, agreed that locking up immigrant families was a boon for private prison firms like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, which received ...
Private Prison Firms: Family Detention, Federal Contracts and For-profit Reentry Services by Bob Libal by Bob Libal, Holly Kirby and Cristina Parker In July 2016, executives from private ...
criticism of the Bureau of Prisons’ private contractors. “Advocates have been arguing for years that research shows private prisons have higher levels of violence, partly due to their business ...
the Florida-based private-prison company has cut staff at one prison but continues to charge New Mexico's Corrections Department (NMCD) as if it's still employing the same number of staff. A June 2012 report ...
Texas Federal Jury Awards $2.25 Million in Private Prison Medical Neglect Case by On October 24, 2012, a Texas federal jury awarded $2.25 million to the survivors of a federal prisoner who ...
Federal Consent Decree Bans Isolation at Mississippi Youth Prison by Matthew Clarke In February 2012, the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) agreed to stop housing juveniles at a privately-run prison in Leake County, Mississippi and enact multiple reforms to protect both the juveniles and the adult prisoners who will remain …
Article • August 22, 2016
Sale of Texas Private Prison Falls Through by The City of Littlefield, Texas sold the Bill Clayton Detention Center (BCDC) at an auction, but the deal fell through. The BCDC is a 363-bed ...
Study Shows Private Prison Companies Use Influence to Increase Incarceration by Matthew Clarke A June 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute entitled "Gaming the System: How ...
Article • August 22, 2016
$350,000 Settlement in Florida Prisoner’s Negligence Claim, Failure to Correct Dangerous Condition by The Geo Group, Inc., Florida Correctional Finance Corporation, South Bay Correctional ...
Article • August 9, 2016
, a private prison company, to operate the Kerrville State Hospital. GEO Care, a GEO Group subsidiary, was the only company to submit a bid after bid proposals for privatizing state hospitals were requested ...
. The ubiquity of criminal justice privatization, however, began with Georgia lawmakers. Since 2003, Georgia politicians have accepted $382,333 in campaign contributions from private prison companies&ndash ...
the millions of dollars spent on lobbying efforts and campaign contributions by the private prison industry as a leading cause. Since 2005, when the Bush Administration launched Operation Streamline, which ...
Fourth Circuit Holds Private Prison Guards to be Under Supervision of DOJ by Derek Gilna Some enterprising prison guards at the River Correctional Institution set up a profitable smuggling ...
to comply with public records laws in those states. [See: PLN, April 2014, p.35; July 2013, p.42]. PLN had previously filed a public records suit against Prison Health Services (now Corizon Health) in Vermont ...
Prison Privatization - Impacts on Urban Communities , Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2014 APPLES‐TO‐FISH: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PRISON COST COMPARISONS Alex Friedmann * Introduction ...
Publication • July 29, 2016
” in the reception wing, and escort van drivers were used as officers on other wings” (“Premier’s Ashfield “worst” prison in England and Wales,” Public Private Finance, February 2003). • A special UN envoy in 2002 ...
Congressional Black Caucus PAC Urged to Cut Ties with Private Prison Lobbyists by The Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee (CBC PAC) says that it works to increase ...
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle on April 10, 2014, protesting the Foundation’s investments in the GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in the U.S. The demonstrators urged the Gates ...
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