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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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asked the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to create Correctional Health Services (CHS) to assume responsibility over the medical care needs of prisoners in the jail system. By the time Betty Adams ...
Balkwill had awarded a three-year, $9 million contract to Armor Correctional Health Services after receiving gifts from the company, including expensive dinners and a fishing trip. PHS, which was providing ...
the private prison company. According to LULAC’s national convention programs for 2005, 2006 and 2007, CCA was a Patron-level donor for each of those years. Patron-level means a donation of $10,000 or more ...
prison commissaries), Wexford Health Sources, Correctional Medical Services and Prison Health Services. Several private prison officials stopped by the PCI booth, which was manned by Friedmann and PCI ...
Privatized Prison Medical Care in Mississippi Still Problematic by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Anyone looking for evidence that privatized prison health care is a complete failure need ...
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Medical Care Mismanaged at Orange County, California Jail by Michael Brodheim A $36 million program designed to provide medical care to jail prisoners in Orange County, California is severely mismanaged, according to an internal performance audit. The audit found that the county Health Care Agency (HCA), which administers the jail’s …
and intermittently foaming at the mouth.” While there are over 500 detention centers in the United States, one private contractor, CCA, has “had at least 18 deaths, including eight at its Eloy, Arizona center alone ...
Florida to Allow Exportation of Prisoners to Other States by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida lawmakers have handed a victory to the private prison industry by passing a bill (SB ...
included $1.5 million for private prison beds, $2.5 million for DOC employee severance pay, $1.4 million in annual “mothball” maintenance and $3 million due to the loss of the prison farm. Further ...
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Florida DOC and Keefe Gouge Prisoners on Commissary Sales by David Reutter by David M. Reutter While the economic downturn has caused the price of goods and commodities to decrease in the free world, the cost of items in Florida’s prison canteens has skyrocketed under a new contract. Florida law …
in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm. On July 27, 2009, Prison Legal News had filed a motion to intervene in the suit ...
. 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 ...
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