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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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. A bill to increase the penalties for such sexual misconduct failed to pass in the Kentucky legislature this year. The private prison industry has generated extensive controversy, with critics arguing ...
is prepared. Taking back food operations from a private contractor is “quite unprecedented for a department of corrections,” noted Aramark spokeswoman Sarah Jarvis. In addition to Florida, Aramark has suffered ...
the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC), or seeking injunctive relief that would impede Sheriff Kocken’s ability to hire Aramark Corporation as a food service provider for the jail. The Circuit ...
Article • September 15, 2009
PLN helps break news story on private prison in Hardin, MT and American Police Force! by Alex Friedmann Investigative Research re American Private Police Force Organization (APF) by Alex ...
Article • September 15, 2009
Attorney withdraws from American Private Police Force by Alex Friedmann Attorney Withdraws from American Private Police Force Hardin, MT – On September 30, Prison Legal News (PLN), a non ...
Prisoner Not Allowed to Sue One DOC in Another State by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Illinois held that New Mexico Department of Corrections (NMDOC) officials cannot be sued in Illinois due to lack of personal jurisdiction. Jimmy Kinslow, an NMDOC prisoner, was transferred in 1995 to the …
Jail Guards Allowed to Assert Qualified Immunity Defense; Nurses Not by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Michigan federal district court’s decision that denied a group of jail guards qualified immunity in a case in which a prisoner died after complaining of chest pain and breathing problems. …
Corporation of America (hereinafter “CCA”), was and is a Tennessee corporation in the business of owning and operating private prisons, for profit, in the United States, including four private prisons ...
Florida’s Private Prisons Still Lack Meaningful Oversight by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) has issued ...
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
Seventh Circuit Vacates Dismissal for Failure to Prosecute; $50,000 + Fees Awarded Following Remand by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s suit for failure to prosecute. The appellate court found the severe sanction of dismissal was not justified. Illinois prisoner Amilcar …
Spurlock v. Townes, NM, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2009 Case 1:09-cv-00786-LH-DJS Document 1 Filed 08/12/2009 Page 1 of 12 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO HEATHER SPURLOCK, & SOPHIA CARRASCO, Plaintiff, v. No. 1:09-cv-00786 ANTHONY TOWNES & BARBARA WAGNER in their individual capacities, & CORRECTIONS …
OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION: ) ~ ITEM DHS, ICE Burlington Finance Center P.O. Box 1620 Attn: ICE-DRO-FHQ-CED Williston VT 05495-1620 ICE Detention & Removal Immigration and Customs ...
HCJ 260505 Israel Supreme Court Ruling Against Private Prisons, US, 2009 Academic Center of Law & Business, Human Rights Division v. Minister of Finance HCJ 2605/05 HCJ 2605/05 Petitioners: 1 ...
University of Arizona Releases Report on Women Immigration Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In January 2009, the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SWIRW) and the Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program of the University of Arizona published a report on women held in Arizona immigration prisons. It …
was taken to the D.C. Jail. While incarcerated at that facility his medical care was provided by a private contractor, Center for Correctional Health and Policy Studies, Inc. (CCHP). When Magbie experienced ...
Louisiana Private Prison Warden Arrested for Malfeasance by Leroy Holiday, Sr., 55, a regional warden for LaSalle Management Company, LLC (LMC), a private prison firm, was released on $5,000 ...
bitten by dogs while incarcerated at a private prison in Oklahoma. Jonathan K. Lum, John Daffron and Frank Frisbee are Hawaiian state prisoners who were incarcerated at the Diamond Back Correctional ...
Florida and Oregon Prison Employees Face Sex Charges by On November 7, 2008, prison guard Geno Lewis Hawkins was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and the Inspector General’s Office of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) on a charge of sexual battery. In August 2008, FDLE …
State Where Claim Arose Controls Section 1983 Limitations Period by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a Wisconsin prisoner who sued for injuries under 42 U.S.C. §1983 that occurred while at a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) facility is bound by the statute of limitations of the …
., a subsidiary of Prison Health Services (PHS) – were deliberately indifferent to her serious medical needs. The district court’s summary judgment ruling was based on Goebert’s failure to exhaust administrative ...
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