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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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GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections), the nation’s second-largest private prison company. PLN filed the suit in 2005 under Florida’s public records law after GEO failed to produce documents ...
DC Circuit Reverses CCA/TransCor Non-Exhaustion Dismissal by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies and for conceding summary judgment by failing to respond to the defendants’ summary judgment motion. The …
Williams v. CCA, TN, Complaint, prison work injury kitchen, 2010 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0222 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0223 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0224
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf 4th Supplemental Disclosures, Disclosures Medical Record, 2010 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse I IO E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 .COURT USE ONLY. Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et. al. …
of America (CCA), which was the final hurdle before awarding Cornell Corrections of Alaska (a subsidiary of Cornell Corrections) a contract worth $19,446,000 to house up to 900 Alaskan prisoners in an out ...
CCA Agrees to Pay $1.3 Million to Settle Sexual Harassment, Retaliation Suit by On October 1, 2009, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) entered into a consent decree with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to settle allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation involving female employees at the company’s Crowley County …
to CACI was reversed. The plaintiffs' remaining claims were dismissed. See: Saleh v. Titan Corp., D.C. Circuit, Case No. 08-7008 (consolidated with Case No. 08-7009). ...
Judge Recommends Denial of Suppression Motion Related to Recordings Obtained from CCA by U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert E. Larsen has recommended the denial of a motion to suppress phone recordings of a plot to harm a federal witness obtained by the government through a Rule 17 subpoena without a court …
Rendon v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2010 Case: 1:10-cv-01590 Document #: 44 Filed: 04/30/10 Page 1 of 32 PageID #:191 09-17 KJG: car UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JANET RENDON, Independent Administrator ) of the Estate of CAROL CZUBERNAT ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) …
Schoger v. Obaisi, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2010 Case: 1:10-cv-02659 Document #: 1 Filed: 04/29/10 Page 1 of 18 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION MARK SCHOGER, Plaintiff, vs. No. ________________ SALEH OBAISI, MD and WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., Defendants. …
, Oct. 2009, p.36]. In at least one case, Aramark is the dissatisfied contract partner. The company filed suit against Community Education Centers (CEC) in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania on February ...
on to Correctional Health Services, and six months later the contract was assigned to Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Vermont dumped CMS on January 31, 2005 after a series of problems, including seven in-prison ...
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
Oklahoma Courts Collecting Fines, Costs at Expense of Justice by Oklahoma judges are pushing for larger fines imposed on criminal defendants to compensate for a shortfall in courthouse budgets. The downturn in the economy has affected almost everyone, and the courts are no exception. Judges in Oklahoma have seen a …
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
in Texas and totaling 1,018 beds, went to competitor Management and Training Corporation. And on October 9, 2008, after CCA terminated its contract to operate the 1,150-bed Bay County Jail in Panama City ...
Ninth Circuit: 42 U.S.C. § 233(a) Does Not Immunize Public Health Service Employees from Bivens Constitutional Tort Claims by John Dannenberg Ninth Circuit: 42 U.S.C. § 233(a) Does Not Immunize Public Health Service Employees from Bivens Constitutional Tort Claims by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals …
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
Filed under: Financing, Immigration, News
Crisis in Reverse: Counties Struggle with Dwindling Jail Populations by Gary Hunter Morgan County, Missouri was in dire financial straits before contracting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house immigration detainees at the county’s jail. For a while things were great – Sheriff Jim Petty replaced his worn-out …
Florida Jail Prisoner Paralyzed by MRSA Sues Prison Health Services by When Brett A. Fields entered Florida’s Lee County Jail to be booked on charges of criminal mischief, violating ...
Guards Suspended, Fired in Prostitution Probe at CCA-Run D.C. Jail by In June 2009, a District of Columbia jail sergeant and two lieutenants were placed on paid leave during an investigation into allegations that the sergeant paid a pimp to have sex with a jailed prostitute. One of the lieutenants …
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
Filed under: Private Prisons, Financing
Indian Country Gets Stimulus Money ... to Build More Jails by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Department of Justice, through the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, has brought stimulus money to Indian reservations – awarding $224 million to build and renovate tribal jails. The funding …
Brief • March 16, 2010
Glover v. CCA, VT, Release and Settlement, 2010 LAN CROCK SPERRY & WOOL, LLP MIDDLEBURY BURLINGTON ATTORNEYS AT LAW Peter F. Langrock Ellen Mercer Fallon William B. Miller, Jr. James W. Swift Emily J. Joselson Mitchell L. Pearl Kevin E. Brown Frank H. Langrock Beth Robinson. F. Rendol Barlow Devin …
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