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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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related corporations, for example, 24 Corizon, Inc. or Corizon, LLC -- which they're going to be 25 called "Corizon" for purposes of this settlement agreement -- 6 1 provide correctional health ...
contracted with the for-profit California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG) to provide health care at the jail as a money-saving measure, but the grand jury panel found the company only partly to blame ...
Article • January 13, 2015
, arguing it not only submitted a cheaper bid, but that Centurion lacks the requisite experience to bid. Corizon, a company created by the merger of Prison Health Services and Correctional Medical Services ...
North Carolina DOC Medical Overpayments Exceed 10% of Total Bills by North Carolina DOC Medical Overpayments Exceed 10% of Total Bills The North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Division of Corrections (DOC), is in need of the services of a professional recovery audit firm, an audit by the state’s Auditor …
Publication • January 5, 2015
care at the jail (Allegheny Correctional Health Services), similar to the arrangement the District has with Unity. Specifically, with respect to the county’s contract with Corizon, the Controller found ...
Publication • December 13, 2014
. [See: PLN, May 2012, p.22]. Only a few major companies dominate the industry. Corizon’s competitors include Wexford Health Sources, Armor Correctional Health Services, NaphCare, Correct Care Solutions ...
Article • November 17, 2014
population is held in private prisons. But, as Rae's experience and recent news stories have demonstrated, private companies have found other ways to profit from bodies in government-run prisons. Services ...
Florida: Sheriff’s Office and Medical Provider Pay $1 Million for Prisoner’s Death by Gary Hunter In July 2013, Armor Correctional Health Services agreed to settle a wrongful death suit ...
by GEO Group in 2013 and (acquired by Correct Care Solutions in April, 2014) is the only private prison corporation involved in this segment. They operate five residential psychiatric treatment hospitals ...
incentives in our criminal justice system has grown. Private prison corporations such as Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group have come under increasing scrutiny and pressure for cutting corners ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
. The suit was filed in July 2012 on behalf of five women incarcerated at Fluvanna, and names as defendants the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC), Armor Correctional Health Services and both VDOC ...
Article • October 3, 2014
Correctional Services for mental health care. That contract was worth $28,858,200. Effective July 1, 2012, TDOC contracted with Corizon, which was created by Correctional Medical Services and Prison Health ...
Article • October 3, 2014
Another Failed Experiment: Minnesota’s Private Prison Health Care Saves Money but Costs Lives by David Reutter Another Failed Experiment: Minnesota’s Private Prison Health Care Saves ...
Article • October 3, 2014
the prisoner healthcare system into decline.   Wexford and the ADC abruptly decided to cancel the company’s contract in January 2013, and rival prison medical services firm Corizon took over the ADC ...
. • MICHIGAN: With Republicans in firm control of both houses of the legislature, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has advanced an extreme privatization agenda. When private contractor Aramark took over prison food ...
Article • September 18, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
represented the company. He estimated losses in MDI’s finances and reputation at greater than $10 million, though he noted the exact amount was difficult to calculate. MDI and Wells Fargo had been ...
Disability Rights Florida v. Crews, FL, Complaint, Wexford Mental Health Class Action, 2014 Case 1:14-cv-23323-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/09/2014 Page 1 of 21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION DISABILITY RIGHTS FLORIDA, INC., on Behalf of its Clients and Constituents, Plaintiff, vs. Case …
Brief • August 6, 2014
Robinson v. Williams, GA, Jury Award, Untreated Infection Causes Paralysis, 2014
Article • June 7, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Seventh Circuit: Jail Social Worker Ignored Detainee’s Suicide Risk by Seventh Circuit: Jail Social Worker Ignored Detainee’s Suicide Risk On August 12, 2013, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a jail social worker could be held liable for ignoring a detainee’s obvious risk of committing suicide. Algerian citizen …
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
; by Robert Warlick   The Kansas Court of Appeals held that employees of Correct Care Solutions at the Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) committed continuing Eighth Amendment violations by withholding ...
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