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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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Colorado CCA Prison Uprising: New Details of Unheeded Warnings Emerge in Epic Lawsuit by Alan Prendergast Seven years ago prisoners at a private prison in southeastern Colorado went on an all ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
GEO Group Ends Florida PAC by An audit by the Florida Department of State found that the GEO Group, Inc., the nation’s second-largest private prison company, had been violating Florida law ...
Fight Brewing Between County Jails and Private Prisons in Kentucky by A bill introduced in the Kentucky legislature proposed removing approximately 3,500 Class D state prisoners currently ...
and unresponsive in his cell at the Bent County Correctional Facility, a private prison in southeastern Colorado. The official cause of death was listed as cardiac hypertrophy, or an enlarged heart. But Lagalia ...
Brief • February 15, 2012
Spurlock v. Townes, NM, Final Jury Instructions, CCA Guard Rapes Prisoners, 2012 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 263 Filed 02/15/12 Page 1 of 39 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 263 Filed 02/15/12 Page 2 of 39 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 263 Filed 02/15/12 Page 3 of 39 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 263 Filed 02/15/12 Page 4 …
of the Court using the CM/ECF System for filing and transmittal of Notice of Electronic Filing to the following ECF registrants: Darrell Moore darrellmoore@swbell.net Julia Neftzger neftzger@swbell.net s/J ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Family of Prisoner Strangled in Oklahoma GEO Private Prison Awarded $6.5 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In June 2011, the family members of an Oklahoma state prisoner who ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
,” with a requirement that private prisons cost at least seven percent less than state facilities. Studies have been unable to substantiate such cost savings. The CPC quickly became involved in financing ...
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 ...
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