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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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HRDC Wins Appeal in Florida Public Records Request Case Against Armor Correctional Health Services by In an opinion reached on December 1, 2021, Florida’s Third District Court ...
Show Me the Money: Tracking the Companies that Have a Lock on Sending Funds to Incarcerated People by Stephen Raher, Tiana Herring We looked at all fifty state departments of corrections to figure out which companies hold the contracts to provide money-transfer services and what the fees are to use …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
that spanned the late 1980s and 1990s. There he glimpsed a vision of the future, in which privatization would be his golden ticket. He then began Prison Health Services, which later became Corizon Health ...
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
JPay Founder Ryan Shapiro Indicted for Securities Fraud by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On January 6, 2022, Ryan Shapiro, the 44-year-old founder of prison financial services firm JPay, was charged in federal court in Boston with conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Also named in the criminal complaint was Shapiro’s …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
After Sixth Death in Six Years, Virginia Jail Cuts Ties with Corizon Health by Jayson Hawkins, Keith Sanders Corizon Employee Charged with Falsifying Records by Jayson Hawkins and Keith ...
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Dallas County Prisoner Trust Fund Bilked of $700,000 With Faked Debit Release Cards by Jail Employee by On October 19, 2021, auditors for Dallas County, Texas, reported to commissioners that lax oversight allowed an employee in the county Sheriff’s Department (DCSD) to use hundreds of damaged debit-release cards to draw …
Article • February 24, 2022
Colorado Bailing Out Private Prison Company on Taxpayers’ Dime by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott  On January 21, 2022, Colorado lawmakers advanced plans to funnel $5.41 million ...
Brief • February 8, 2022
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Miera v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2022 Centurion 003106 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE ...
Fifth Circuit Holds Private Immigration Detention Facilities Are Subject to Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s Prohibition Against Coerced Labor by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After a trio of federal court rulings in 2021 regarding the labor of immigrant detainees, the first one remained the clearest victory so far for plaintiffs. …
Seventh Circuit: No Case for Loss of Eye from Medical Neglect Because of Lack of Expert Testimony by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit highlights the importance of producing expert testimony to refute assertions made by defendant health …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Seventh Circuit Grudgingly Affirms Summary Judgment in Illinois’ Prisoner’s Suicide Lawsuit by Dale Chappell But Highlights Negligence of DOC and Wexford Health Staff by Dale Chappell Hinting that “another area of law” may provide relief, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on August 9, 2021, affirmed summary …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) signed an executive order in January 2021 prohibiting DOJ from renewing contracts for detention facilities with private prison operators. That order is being challenged ...
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
; As a condition of the monetary settlement, Clark relinquished any and all claims against defendants, including Chester County and its prison health care contractor, PrimeCare Medical, Inc. See: Clark v. Feliciano ...
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Seven Prisoners Died in 2021, One by Homicide, at Virginia’s Only Private Prison by The Lawrenceville Correctional Center (LCC), Virginia’s only remaining for-profit prison, now also ...
Tennessee CoreCivic Prison Guard Indicted for Beating Unresisting Prisoner, Attempting Cover-up by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On September 27, 2021, a three-count indictment was filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, accusing a former guard at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville of violating a …
Brief • January 31, 2022
Baker v. Jimenez, et al., NM, Complaint, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2022 Case 2:22-cv-00071 Document 1 Filed 01/31/22 Page 1 of 10 Centurion 002572 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...
Brief • January 3, 2022
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Miera v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Complaint (Federal), Medical Malpractice, 2022 Case 1:21-cv-01227-KWR-SMV Document 2 Filed 01/03/22 Page 1 of 47 Centurion ...
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Corizon, Failure to Treat
, 2021, report by Newsweek noted that 49 state prison systems currently rely on contracted health care providers like Corizon and its four main competitors, NaphCare Inc., PrimeCare Medical Inc., Armor ...
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Montana Renews CoreCivic Contract; Major Water and Sewage Problems Persist by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The private prison industry has been under fire recently across the country ...
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
; Centurion took over the contract to provide health care to NMCD prisoners on July 1, 2019, from another private firm, Corizon Correctional Healthcare, which had taken over from competitor Wexford Health ...
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