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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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employees cannot claim the privileges and immunities of a “public entity” or “public employees,” for the following reasons: 1. Under the plain meaning of the statute, a private prison corporation ...
Correctional Services ("CMS") provided medical services to Defendant NMWCF. tions 7. During all times relevant to this Complaint, Defendant Correc Corporation of America ("CCA") maintained and operated NMWCF ...
Alaska Prisoners May Assert Third-Party Beneficiary Claim Against Contract Medical Provider by Alaska prisoners may bring a third-party breach of contract claim against contract medical providers for medical negligence, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided August 28, 2007. Joseph Miller, an Alaska prisoner, sued Corrections Corporation …
as a consultant for Management and Training Corporation (MTC), CorPlan Corrections, Aguirre Inc., Hale Mills Corporation, TEDSI Infrastructure Group Inc. and Dannenbaum Engineering Corp., all of which are involved ...
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright Our cover story this month examines the travails of Geo Corporation, the second largest private prison company in the world in the state of Texas. We recently ...
General’s office. Rep. Oliveira sits on the House Corrections Committee, which considers legislation that affects private prison companies. “Oliveira should have been conducting investigations ...
Chesnut v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Complaint, CCA prisoner escapee shot police, 2009 IN THE ________ CIRCUIT COURT OF DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE MARK CHESNUT and MICHELLE CHESNUT, a husband and wife, ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) ) CORRECTIONS CORPORATION ) OF AMERICA d/b/a …
Bearden v. Lippman, FL, Request to Deffendant, Mental Health Services, 2009 Combined Discovery Requests to Defendant Frank McKeithen 1. Statement: There is no indication during this time that Ms. Bearden received intensive psychological and psychiatric services within a structured inpatient setting during her last incarceration at the Bay County Jail. …
Bearden v. Lippman, FL, Medical Interrogatories, 2009 Medical Interrogatories to Doctor 1. What is the name and address of the person answering these interrogatories, and, if applicable, the person’s official position or relationship with the party to whom the interrogatories are directed? 2. Describe in detail your relationship with The …
Publication • 2009
Corizon Employee Orientation Manual 2009 INTRODUCTION TO PRISON HEALTH SERVICES AND CORRECTIONAL HEALTH CARE Orientation Manual Revised 11.09 PageCOR 1 of 132 748 PRISON HEALTH SERVICES Prison ...
., 2008 WL 3285764, *3 (S.D. Ga. Aug. 8, 2008)(holding that even though the private prison contractor CCA had contracted with the federal Bureau of Prisons to operate a federal correctional ...
and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a private prison operated by GRW Corp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit ...
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Billionaire-Funded California Voter Initiative Triples Lifer Parole Denial Intervals, Imposes Restrictions on Parole Violators by Billionaire-Funded California Voter Initiative Triples Lifer Parole Denial Intervals, Imposes Restrictions on Parole Violators In the November 2008 elections, California voters narrowly passed Proposition 9 by a 53 to 47% margin. Prop. 9 was a …
the operation of private prison companies that have such an inherent and pernicious profit motive? Meanwhile, the PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care facilities are still in business – albeit now ...
California County’s 2005 Purchase of Private Prison Still Clouded in Conflict of Interest Questions by Marvin Mentor California County’s 2005 Purchase of Private Prison Still Clouded ...
“available” administrative remedies. See: Purkey v. CCA, USDC, D. Kan., No. 03-3157-CM (Aug. 19, 2008) ...
Private Prison Company Cleans Up Texas Creek, Finally Gets Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In July 2008, Louisiana-based private prison company LCS Corrections Services agreed ...
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
of cast. The $75,000 settlement, to be paid by the jail’s mental health contractor, MHM, Inc., was termed a “cost of defense” settlement. See: Henderson v. Salt Lake County, USDC, D. Utah ...
did not have alternative remedies. Aside from those two cases, the Court has consistently refused to extend Bivens. Most recently, the Court declined to do so in Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko ...
Article • May 15, 2009
officials under Bivens.[177] In Sarro v. Cornell Corrections, Inc.,[178] the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled that a federal inmate could sue private prison officials under Bivens ...
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