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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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Spurlock v. Townes, NM, Second Amended Complaint, Prison Sexual Assault, 2010 Case 1:09-cv-00786-WJ-SMV Document 103 Filed 09/07/10 Page 1 of 11 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO HEATHER SPURLOCK, SOPHIA CARRASCO, & NINA CARRERA Plaintiffs, v. No. 1:09-cv-00786 ANTHONY TOWNES & BARBARA WAGNER in …
of a controlled sub-stance. Routine medical intake by the jail’s private healthcare provider, Cermak Health Services (Cermak), revealed only that Smith had elevated blood pressure, for which he received a week’s ...
cost the jail $100,000 a week in lost revenue, and threatened its ability to finance its debt. “This administration takes any allegation of inadequate medical care or ill treatment seriously ...
Farmer v. Miles, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2010 Case: 1:10-cv-05055 Document #: 1 Filed: 08/11/10 Page 1 of 3 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Darryl Farmer, Plaintiff, ­vs­ Dr. Gwendolyn Miles and Dr. Thomas, Defendants. ) ) ) ) …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Demand Letter, public records indigents right to review depositions, 2010 lS~H JONES, SKELTON & HOCHULI, ~L. C. 290t NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE DANIEL P. STRUCK SUITE 800 TELEPHONE: 16021263·7323 PHOENIX. ARIZONA 85012 FAX: 1602l20D·7Bl1 PHONE: 1602126'·1700 E·MAIL: DSTRUCK@JSHFIRM.CDM FAX: 16021651·7599 W_Y"W_,~J_;-"fIRM:~!!M. RACHEL LOVE TELEPHONE: 16D21263-1726 FAX: (602l2lJO-7857 …
CMS Nurse Denied Summary Judgment for Failure to Treat Prisoner for Heat Illness;$400,000 Settlement Following Sixth Circuit Ruling by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In February 2009 ...
Virginia Sheriff’s Office, PHS Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $1.6 Million by Prison Health Services (PHS), a private for-profit company that provides medical care to prisoners, has agreed ...
Corrections Corp. of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company. PLN filed the lawsuit in September 2009, claiming that CCA’s Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona only allowed prisoners ...
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
New York Prisoner Beaten, Guards Convicted, GEO Settles Suit for $80,000 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 7, 2009, three private prison guards were convicted of charges involving ...
Article • July 15, 2010
Injuries Sustained From Glass in Food Net D.C. Prisoner $2,000 by On April 28, 2003, Davont Pindle settled his negligence claim against Aramark Corporation and the District of Columbia ...
Salas v. Buccigrossi, NM, Complaint, Sexual Assault and Rape, 2010 MAY-26-2010 17:41 From:UPTOWN To:16155659970-11643 cr~~cE ~:l,,>.::O!\ THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COUNTY OF CIBOLA 2810 JUL13 At'!IQ:34 STATE OF NEW MEXICO 1,:J.Ji:Y c/:iJ~3 BRENDASALAS, CV2WUu .1. . v_ 1 BY --- Plaintiff, v, CHARLES BUCCIGROSSI, ARLENR HICKSON, .FNU JOHNSON, and HELEN CARR, …
Kress et al v. CCA, IN, Order, PLRA Administrative Exhaustion, 2010 Case 1:08-cv-00431-LJM-DML Document 85 Filed 07/02/10 Page 1 of 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION ALAN KRESS, BILLY FORD, ERIC STAGGS, TIMOTHY-PATRICK TREACY, RANDY CARR, on their own behalf and on behalf of a …
of prisoners sent to for-profit facili-ties and privatize other aspects of the state’s prison system, was released in April 2010 on the heels of Governor Schwar-zenegger’s comments in favor of private prisons ...
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
of that warning. When Georgia discontinued providing probation services for State Courts in 2001, many counties hired private com-panies to operate such programs. Richmond County currently contracts with Sentinel ...
Pennsylvania Judges Involved in Corruption Case Face Liability; 5,000 Convictions Thrown Out by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Pennsylvania U.S. District Court has granted absolute judicial immunity to two former state court judges in a consolidated class-action civil rights suit. That immunity, however, only applied to judicial acts, …
GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections), the nation’s second-largest private prison company. PLN filed the suit in 2005 under Florida’s public records law after GEO failed to produce documents ...
DC Circuit Reverses CCA/TransCor Non-Exhaustion Dismissal by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies and for conceding summary judgment by failing to respond to the defendants’ summary judgment motion. The …
Williams v. CCA, TN, Complaint, prison work injury kitchen, 2010 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0222 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0223 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0224
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf 4th Supplemental Disclosures, Disclosures Medical Record, 2010 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse I IO E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 .COURT USE ONLY. Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et. al. …
of America (CCA), which was the final hurdle before awarding Cornell Corrections of Alaska (a subsidiary of Cornell Corrections) a contract worth $19,446,000 to house up to 900 Alaskan prisoners in an out ...
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