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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 • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
against his son. It is important to note that Thomas Wierdsma is a high ranking official in the GEO Group, Inc., a private prison corporation ... with direct involvement with detention and deportation ...
six of the ten years he spent behind bars at the South Central Correctional Center in Clifton, Tennessee, a private prison operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Following his release he ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Electronic Monitoring: Some Causes for Concern by James Kilgore Electronic monitoring (EM) looms high on the list of alternatives to incarceration for corrections officials seeking solutions to overcrowded prisons and budget deficits. First used in 1983, today some 200,000 people in the United States wear some sort of electronic monitor, …
organization of Prison Legal News) and the ACLU of Hawaii, represents the Nunuha family. “Private prisons are known to have higher levels of violence due to understaffing and high staff turnover that result ...
Jury Awards $13,000 in Tennessee CCA False Imprisonment Suit by A Tennessee federal court awarded $13,000 to Samuel Key for civil rights violations resulting from his false imprisonment. The case began in 1987, when Key was convicted and sentenced to prison in Georgia. During that time, a phony escape charge …
$1 Million Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In May 2011, Oklahoma County approved a $1 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit involving a prisoner who was first denied his anti-seizure medication and then fatally beaten by guards after he had …
Collins v. Bustamante, NM, Settlement (Ann Chavez), Sexual Assault and Rape, 2012 2013-03-0714:17 Fine LawFirm 5052422716 » P 2/5 SEffl iEMENT AGREEMENT BEI,EASE AND COVENANT OFNQN..IlJSCfcOSUBE For the co°'idotntionof the sum of TEN THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($10,000,00),paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATIONOF AMBIUCA,the ~lpt and sufficiency of which Is hereby acknowledged1 ANNCHAVEZ …
contract with the State, the scope of records considered to be public is somewhat limited by the Private Prison Contracting Act at Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-24-117. This rationale is consistent with the plain ...
Brief • February 23, 2012
Richardson v. Crawford County Correctional Facility, PA, Amended Complaint, Failure to Treat, Medical, 2012 Case 1:10-cv-00275-DSC-SPB Document 60 Filed 02/23/12 Page 1 of 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA – ERIE Gary L. Richardson, Plaintiff ) ) v. ) No. 1: 10 cv …
Filing • February 21, 2012
. by and between Prison Legal News (""PLN'") and Corizon Health, Inc .. formerly known as Prison Health Services. Inc. (.. PHS .. ). PLN and PHS may be referred to herein together as the ·•parties ...
Spurlock v. Townes, NM, Special Verdict Form, Prison Sexual Assault, 2012 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 262 Filed 02/16/12 Page 1 of 10 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 262 Filed 02/16/12 Page 2 of 10 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 262 Filed 02/16/12 Page 3 of 10 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 262 Filed 02/16/12 Page 4 of …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
of Florida’s Blackwater River Correctional Institution (BRCI), which is operated by GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison firm. BRCI was opened at a time when there was excess bed space ...
New Mexico Continues to Let Understaffed Private Prisons Slide on Most Contract Violations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2010, the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee ...
Former Oregon Prison Official Faces Ethics Probe by In March 2011, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,000-a-year job as an assistant administrator for the Health Services Division of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). Three days earlier he had been hired by Correctional Health Partners (CHP), a private medical …
Article • February 15, 2012
be justified if there were no controversy concerning prison privatization. But there is a great deal of legitimate disagreement about the benefits of privatizing prisons. There is no evidence that privatized ...
Videotaped Assault at Idaho CCA Prison Sparks FBI Investigation by Mark Wilson Guards at a private prison in Idaho looked on, but did not intervene, as a prisoner was beaten into a coma ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
, March 2011, p.34]. The private prison project had a promising start. Littlefield initially contracted with Correctional Services Corp. to run the facility. After the Texas Youth Commission stopped using ...
Article • February 15, 2012
Wierdsma is a high ranking official in the GEO Group, Inc., a private prison corporation ... with direct involvement with detention and deportation.” The counterclaim alleged claims of victim intimidation ...
privatizing state prisons. But first some background. Private Prisons in the Sunshine State Florida’s Department of Corrections – the third largest in the nation – has been in a constant mode of expansion ...
million a year. GEO’s rising profitability is a result of the company’s capacity to change with the times. While the War on Drugs and facility construction were the cash cows of the private prison industry ...
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