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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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New Mexico Corrections Secretary Lets Private Prison Firms Skate on Understaffing, Forgoes $18.6 Million in Fines by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Former New Mexico Corrections Secretary Joe ...
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
, Tennessee-based private prison transport company TransCor America for transporting prisoners more than 24 continuous hours without giving them an opportunity to rest overnight in a bed. The class action suit ...
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
Filed under: Private Prisons
Services to operate the detention center as an Intermediate Sanction Facility. Bob Libal, the Texas coordinator of Grassroots Leadership, a non-profit advocacy organization that opposes private prisons ...
Florida: Cost Savings and Benefits of Prison Privatization Non-Existent by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Florida’s experience with privatized prisons raises serious questions about ...
Tennessee: Private Prison Guards Considered “Public Servants” by Employees of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison company, are public servants ...
while helping unload supplies from an Aramark food service vehicle. While being held at Lorton Correctional Facility on August 4, 2000, Thomas was working in the kitchen when Cpl. Knox instructed him ...
$50,000 Settlement in Suit Alleging CCA Counsel Falsified Court Documents by The District of Columbia paid $50,000 to settle a lawsuit by prisoner George Carter that claimed Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) counsel falsified court orders in his habeas corpus proceeding. While at D.C.’s Central Treatment Facility (CTF) Carter was, …
was not provided care for the torn bicep by the medical provider, Prison Health Services, until four months later. His complaint alleged civil rights violations for the failure to protect and deliberate ...
Drill Bit Left in Jaw Nets D.C. Prisoner $15,000 Settlement by On March 22, 2005, a prisoner of the District of Columbia and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) settled for $15,000 his suit alleging medical negligence for a botched dental procedure. James Moore was admitted to a D.C. hospital on …
Eighth Circuit Dismisses Appeal Where Parties Attempted to Manufacture Jurisdiction by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has rejected an attempt by the parties in a suit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to manufacture appellate jurisdiction for an interlocutory appeal from a district court’s grant of …
OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION STAR MRDAK, as next friend of JOSEPH SCHAEFER, Plaintiff, No. ________________ vs. KUL BIR SOOD, MD, CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS, LLC, DEAN RIEGER, MD, IMHOTEP K. CARTER, MD, and WEXFORD ...
Gardner v. Easterling, TN, Complaint, CCA 8th Am death strangled by cell mate, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0297 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0298 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0299 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0300 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0301 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0302
Publication • March 1, 2011
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
Progressive Discipline - Policy Manual, GEO Group, 2011 POLICY and PROCEDURE MANUAL NUMBER: 3.2.8 CHAPTER: Human Resources SUPERSEDES: TITLE: Progressive Discipline NEW EFFECTIVE: ACA STANDARDS: 03/01/11 PURPOSE Progressive Discipline is a process by which employees are made aware that an opportunity for improvement exists, and supervisors follow a course of …
Kelly v. Wengler, ID, Complaint, CCA Failure to Protect, 2011 Case Case 1:09-cv-00010-EJL 1:11-cv-00185-EJLDocument Document 143-2 1 Filed Filed 04/27/11 02/21/11Page Page 1 of 1 67 of 67 STEPHEN L. PEVAR American Civil Liberties Union Foundation 2074 Park Street Hartford, Connecticut 06106 (860) 570-9830 (APPENDIX B) LEA C. COOPER ISB …
Is Operation Streamline a Billion Dollar Give-away to the Private Prison Industry? by Bob Libal A new “green paper” released on July 19, 2010, entitled Operation Streamline: Drowning Justice ...
California: State May Be Liable for Delaying Medical Care to Prisoner’s Infant Child by The California Court of Appeal has held that the State may be vicariously liable for the acts or omissions of its employees in failing to provide needed medical care for an infant living with its mother …
that provide correctional services, including private prison firms. APCTO’s membership includes Management & Training Corporation (MTC), a private prison contractor that houses thousands of federal detainees ...
” and slurred his speech, signs of intoxication. The LPN was an employee of Prison Health Services (PHS), a private prison medical care contractor. PHS policy required that a physician be contacted ...
Ninth Circuit Holds Private Prison Companies Can Be Sued Under Bivens for Violating Federal Prisoner’s Rights by Derek Gilna On June 7, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...
Medical Services (CMS) mental health employee responded. Guards told them Randle had torn her suicide gown, made a noose, tied it around her neck and threatened to hang herself. Love ordered Randle placed ...
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