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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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Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
he was fired by Pittsburgh-based Wexford Health Services, another prison medical care firm, in Sept. 1999. While he was employed with Wexford, Zaloga had disagreed with the introduction of a new ...
Article • August 15, 2008
Filed under: Private Prisons, Allvest, Zoning
$2.5 Million Settlement For Private Prison Construction Cancellation by The City of Delta Junction (City) and Alaska corporations Allvest, Inc., and Delta Corrections Group, LLC (DCG ...
Article • August 15, 2008
CCA Denied Over $2 Million In Tax Deductions by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) appealed a New Mexico court denial for gross receipts tax deduction claims totaling over $2 million. The denial was affirmed due to the "per diem rate" prisoner housing calculation. CCA contracts to house prisoners for the …
Article • August 15, 2008
Kentucky County Settles Loss of Consortium Suit for Undisclosed Amount by Phillip D. Hurst, a Kentucky prisoner, was taking prescribed methadone. When he returned one night to a Lexington County work release center in an intoxicated state, he was examined by two nurses who thought he was experiencing diabetes-related symptoms. …
PA Prisoner’s Civil Rights Action Viable Because Factual Dispute Exists by Vincent Cortlessa, a Pennsylvania state prisoner, sued guards and Primecare Medical, a private health care company ...
Townsend v. CCA, TN, Complaint, inmate murder in double cell segregation, 2008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0201 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0202 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0203 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0204
Pharmacy. Allcare provides prescription drugs and other medical services to prisoners in the Arkansas Department of Correc-tions through a subcontract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Malone ...
was to immediately cancel the state’s contract with GEO Group, Inc., the private prison contractor that operated the facility. GEO (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) had run the center since it opened in 1994. Over ...
CCA Fined $140,000 for Early Release of Prisoners at FL Jail; Quits Contract by The nation’s largest private prison firm, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), has once again upset ...
Article • July 15, 2008
Medical Services (CMS) for defamation of character after being fired over baseless accusations of one alleged eyewitness. The jury awarded them $50,000 collectively. After holding a door open for a guard ...
that Prison Health Services’ (PHS) failure to monitor her lithium levels fell under the common knowledge exception of N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2A:53A-27 and granted her motion for reargument. Upon admission to New ...
Prison Health Services Physician’s Assistant License Revocation Upheld by On June 2, 2005, a Maryland court of appeals upheld the revocation of a Prison Health Services (PBS) Physician’s ...
CCA Attempts Cover-Up of Assault by Warden at Tennessee Prison by Alex Friedmann Late last year, a prisoner at the CCA-operated Hardeman County Correctional Facility (HCCF) in Tennessee notified PLN that the prison’s warden, assistant warden and internal affairs officer had either resigned or been fired or transferred. The staff …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Defunct Louisiana Juvenile Private Prison Reactivated by GEO for Immigrants by A Jena, Louisiana private prison with a troubled past will experience rebirth as an immigrant detention center ...
Georgia Suicide Claim Reinstated Against PHS by The Georgia Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a negligence claim against Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) stemming from a 17-year ...
State of California - Corrections Corporation of America Contract, 2008 STATE OF CALIFORNIA STANDARD AGREEMENT AMENDMENT STD. 213 A (Rev 6/03) ~ CHECK HERE IF ADDITIONAL PAGES ARE ATIACHED 287 Pag"s AGREEMENT NUMBER AMENDMENT NUMBER 5600000770 7 REGISTRATION NUMBER C07.247-7 1. eP 1046444 This Agreement 1s entered into between the …
tests and substance abuse treatment. Further, the former head of mental health services for the Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections, Dr. Gail Williams, was hired by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) in 1994 ...
$2 Million Confidential Settlement In CCA Prisoner’s 2004 Beating Death Revealed by Alex Friedmann $2 Million Confidential Settlement In CCA Prisoner's 2004 Beating Death Revealed by Alex Friedmann PLN has previously reported on the death of Estelle Richardson, a mentally ill prisoner who died at the CCA-operated Metro-Davidson County Detention …
rejecting bids from Emerald Correction Management to use a Texas prison and CiviGenics to use a prison in Louisiana.[45] However, the consideration was not to reduce the burden on prisoners and their families ...
PHS Not Liable for Prisoner Attack on Nurses by The plaintiffs were nurses employed by Prison Health Services, Inc., and were attacked and beaten by a prisoner. The Supreme Court's decision ...
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