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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 • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
prisons conducted by Washington State University graduate student Shawn Genter found that in states with private prisons, new prisons impeded economic growth. Genter suggested that prisons impede employment ...
largest private prison firm, had settled a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Kansas that raised claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on behalf of current and former CCA employees ...
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
Prison Video Visitation Expands into For-Profit Market by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Businesses seeking to profit from the exponential expansion of our nation’s prison population are now turning to visitation. Florida-based JPay is implementing its “video-conference visitation” in Indiana’s prison system, while other companies, such as einmate.com, are …
South Dakota: Prisoner May Enforce Third-Party Kosher Meal Obligation by The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that a state prisoner can bring a third-party beneficiary claim to enforce a settlement agreement between the South Dakota Department of Corrections (DOC) and another prisoner. Charles E. Sisney, a DOC prisoner, filed …
and violation of the Eighth Amendment by Department of Correction (DOC) officials and medical personnel employed by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and University of Massachusetts Correctional Health (UMCH ...
Calls over Monitored Phone to Attorney not Protected by Sixth Amendment by U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert E. Larsen has recommended the denial of a motion to suppress audio recordings obtained by the United States from CCA that contained attorney-client communications. While awaiting trial on federal charges, Gary Eye allegedly conspired …
Article • December 15, 2009
judge to serve time in PA Child Care, a private company’s facility.99 Although these accounts do not reflect the bulk of the private prison industry’s lobbying efforts, they are not extraordinarily rare ...
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
attracted a company that made city officials an offer they simply couldn’t refuse. On Sept. 10, 2009, Hardin announced a 10-year contract with the American Private Police Force Organization (APPF) to house ...
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Behind Montana Jail Fiasco: How Private Prison Developers Prey on Desperate Towns by Justin Elliott With the unraveling of the deal for the shadowy American Private Police Force to take over ...
Private Prisons Don’t Make Better Prisoners by Andrew L. Spivak by Prof. Andrew L. Spivak The incarceration rate, which from the 1920s to the early 1970s hovered between about 100 to 120 ...
asked the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to create Correctional Health Services (CHS) to assume responsibility over the medical care needs of prisoners in the jail system. By the time Betty Adams ...
Balkwill had awarded a three-year, $9 million contract to Armor Correctional Health Services after receiving gifts from the company, including expensive dinners and a fishing trip. PHS, which was providing ...
the private prison company. According to LULAC’s national convention programs for 2005, 2006 and 2007, CCA was a Patron-level donor for each of those years. Patron-level means a donation of $10,000 or more ...
prison commissaries), Wexford Health Sources, Correctional Medical Services and Prison Health Services. Several private prison officials stopped by the PCI booth, which was manned by Friedmann and PCI ...
Privatized Prison Medical Care in Mississippi Still Problematic by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Anyone looking for evidence that privatized prison health care is a complete failure need ...
and intermittently foaming at the mouth.” While there are over 500 detention centers in the United States, one private contractor, CCA, has “had at least 18 deaths, including eight at its Eloy, Arizona center alone ...
Florida to Allow Exportation of Prisoners to Other States by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida lawmakers have handed a victory to the private prison industry by passing a bill (SB ...
included $1.5 million for private prison beds, $2.5 million for DOC employee severance pay, $1.4 million in annual “mothball” maintenance and $3 million due to the loss of the prison farm. Further ...
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Florida DOC and Keefe Gouge Prisoners on Commissary Sales by David Reutter by David M. Reutter While the economic downturn has caused the price of goods and commodities to decrease in the free world, the cost of items in Florida’s prison canteens has skyrocketed under a new contract. Florida law …
in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm. On July 27, 2009, Prison Legal News had filed a motion to intervene in the suit ...
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