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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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Adams v. CCA, CO, Appeal Brief, prison riot, 2007 Certification of Word Count: 9,474 COURT OF APPEALS, STATE OF COLORADO rd 2 East 14 th Avenue, 3 Floor Denver, CO 80203 Appeal from order entered by Judge Michael Schiferl, Crowley County District COUlt, 2005CV60 Plaintiffs-Appellants: Vance A. Adams,et. a1. Defendants-Appellees: …
Brief • June 18, 2007
must be especially vigilant to ensure that prisoners can obtain justice through the civil justice system. If private prison corporations can avoid accountability for their constitutional violations ...
million captive customers, and it is a "growth industry." Private prison transport companies, medical and psychological, telephone, food and commissary services are reaping ever-increasing profits from ...
Private Prison Companies Bilk Florida Taxpayers Out of Millions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter From its inception, privatization of Florida prisons has been touted as a way to save ...
, Ohio arrestee who was severely beaten by police and negligently treated by Prison Health Services? (PHS) contract jail medical staff resulted in a settlement totaling $450,000. African-American Booker ...
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
was pregnant. Correctional Health Services (CHS), the jail's contract medical provider, confirmed the pregnancy but declined Doe's immediate and repeated request to be transported to a hospital for an elective ...
State of California - Corrections Corporation of America Contract, 2007 STATE orQAUFORN,!\ STANB~"1!I.6.GREEMENT AME~ STD.213 A (Rev 6i'Y2t... D .IENT . CH}:CK HERE IF ADDITIONAL PAGES ARE ATTACHED 3 Pages I [AGREEMENTNUMBER C06.298 AMENDMENT NUMBER REGISTRATION NUMBER L 1. This Agreement is entered into between the State Agency and Contractor …
Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Another state prison system that subjected itself to the experiment ...
to dehydration. [See related article in this issue of PLN, Michigan Prisons: Another Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care]. To remedy its medical treatment deficiencies, MDOC proposed a two-phase study ...
in the provision of mental health care. [See related article in this issue of PLN, Michigan Prisons: Another Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care]. The first two sentences of the Court's order, written by U.S ...
PLRA Applies to Private Prisons by Upholding a Tennessee federal district court, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled as meritless and frivolous a Wisconsin prisoner's suit ...
Oklahoma: Attacked Employee's Psychological Treatment Claim Compensable by The Supreme Court of Oklahoma held that an employee of a contract health care provider who was stabbed by a prisoner had a compensable psychological injury claim. Sandra Shivel, an employee of Wexford Health Sources (WHS), was attacked and physically injured by …
Private Prison Corporation Not Entitled to 11th Amendment or Sovereign Immunity by Private Prison Corporation Not Entitled to 11th Amendment or Sovereign Immunity The U.S. Northern ...
to a serious medical need. This action was filed by a pretrial detainee against officials at New Jersey's Cape May County Jail and employees of Correctional Health Services (CHS). The detainee, a dual amputee ...
Sexually Harassed Prison Kitchen Worker Awarded $90,000 by On August 20, 2002, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky awarded $90,000 to a prison kitchen worker who was sexually harassed by a prison captain. The judgment was against her former employer, Kellwell Food Management (KFM). While working …
that PLRA applicability to private prisons was an unresolved issue, but assuming for this case that it did apply, the Tenth Circuit held, "Even though matters involving federal and state law and regulation ...
Tennessee Prisoner in Private Prison Not "Inmate" by Statutory Definition by Tennessee Prisoner in Private Prison Not "Inmate" by Statutory Definition The Tennessee Court ...
several letters to government officials regarding prison mismanagement by WCC. Elliott was suspended without pay from the private prison where he was employed and was never allowed to return to work ...
EMSA Not Liable for Ohio Prisoner's Restraint-Related Injury by In this case involving an Ohio prisoner whose fingers required amputation due to allegedly improperly applied restraints ...
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