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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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procedural compliance. The BOP contracted the building of a private prison in Clearfield County in 1999 with Cornell Corrections, Inc. (Cornell), to house over 1,000 federal prisoners. A 10 year deal ...
Private Prison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths by Private Prison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths by Matt Clarke The private prison ...
Report Criticizes Conditions in U.S. Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington by David Reutter Report Criticizes Conditions in U.S. Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington by David M. Reutter Conditions at the federal immigration center in Tacoma, Washington, are substandard and not in compliance with national standards, “much less international …
Alaskan Prisoner in Arizona Can Enforce CCA Contract by The Supreme Court of Alaska held that state prisoners incarcerated at a private prison in Arizona can enforce portions of the contract ...
that house more than 2000 prisoners and was not brought under control until the afternoon of February 1. GEO Group, Inc., the private prison company that operates RCDC, reports that no injuries occurred during ...
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
CMS Fails to Treat MRSA Infection; Florida Jail Prisoner Dies by When Dorothy Dian Palinchik was booked into Florida’s Pinellas County Jail (PCJ) on February 13, 2008 for stealing a $9.00 ...
Former PHS Doctor Arrested on Drug Charges by Former PHS Doctor Arrested on Drug Charges In July 2008, former Prison Health Services (PHS) employee John N. Mubang, 57, was arrested ...
$885,437.24 Award for CMS Massachusetts Jail Nurse Barred for Reporting Prisoner Abuse by $885,437.24 Award for CMS Massachusetts Jail Nurse Barred for Reporting Prisoner Abuse ...
) has sued the sheriff of Sarasota County, Florida for awarding the jail’s health care contract to rival Armor Correctional Health Services without taking competitive bids. The lawsuit also alleges ...
PHS Receives Three-Year $366 Million Rikers Island Medical Care Contract Renewal Despite Non-Performance Fines for Last Three Years by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Prison Health ...
plus $230,000 in attorney fees. Four private companies, including Correctional Health Services, settled their liability separately for undisclosed amounts. Yolanda Padilla was 34 when her 17-year-old ...
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
CMS Insurer Must Pay Wyoming Suicide Settlement by CMS Insurer Must Pay Wyoming Suicide Settlement The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an insurer is required to indemnify ...
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
, was employed as a financial analyst for GEO’s mergers and acquisitions group. It is through these sources that Zachariah learned that GEO was about to acquire Correctional Services Corp., (CSC) a Florida company ...
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Tobacco Smoke (ETS) suit against private prison contractor Cornell Corrections, Inc., because Cornell’s grievance record-keeping was so inadequate that the question of administrative exhaustion could ...
-year lease agreement. In 2005, CCA made a similar proposal to the leaders of Richmond, Virginia. Even private prison companies, which can serve as vehicles for back-door prison financing, are themselves ...
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Monitor’s Second and Third Reports Find Medical Care From CMS for Delaware Prisoners Still Lacking by David Reutter Monitor’s Second and Third Reports Find Medical Care From CMS ...
to for-profit private prison firms such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) and Cornell Corrections, while at the same time provided those companies with a safety net ...
Correctional Services Corp. (later acquired by GEO Group) after a juvenile offender died as a result of gross medical neglect. What is most amazing is that for years the state has failed to monitor the private ...
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Review (PEER). It found that MDOC and its for-profit healthcare contractor, Wexford Health Services, failed to assure that prisoners received timely access to quality medical care. PEER stated ...
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