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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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medical provider, Prison Health Services, has been the subject of numerous previous reports in PLN. [See, e.g.: PLN, Nov. 2006, p.1]. On September 4, 2006, three days after reporting to jail to serve a 26 ...
Development International (MDI), a Florida-based firm that provides similar services to 27 federal Bureau of Prisons facilities. MDI's scheduling efforts reportedly reduced CDCR's medical specialist backlog ...
day, she was raped in retaliation for complaining. She had also alleged that the private contractor's (GEO) guards had "physically and psychologically beat her down," causing her to relapse into a state ...
) worried that this was a bargaining tactic by Gov. Schwarzenegger in their contested labor contract negotiations: knuckle under or kiss your jobs goodbye. Out-of-state private prisons charge California less ...
Hambrick v. CCA, TN, Settlement, slip fall water, 2007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0006 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0009 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0010
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: CMS, Medical, Diabetes, Amputations
Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner’s Loss of Foot by Matthew Clarke Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner's Loss of Foot by Matthew T. Clarke In June 2006, CMS ...
$1.6 Million Settlements by PHS and Hillsborough County in Death of Baby Born in Florida Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Inadequate medical care by Prison Health Services (PHS) has ...
(positive) were errantly entered into his medical records by NJDOC?s medical contractor, St. Louis-based Correctional Medical Services (CMS), as ?negative.? When he tried to see his lab results, J.D.A ...
the Legislature to imprison human beings for profit. The lobbyist for the private prison company was James Mitchell, a close Baldacci advisor, campaign contributor, and fundraiser. Department of Corrections ...
mental health evaluation had not been completed following her arrest two days prior to her death. According to Vincent Keane, president of Unity Health Care, the jail?s contract health care provider ...
was also raped somewhere in the course of being beaten to death. Seidel's daughters, Devra Seidel and Sharon Clark, sued the County, Prison Health Services (the jail's medical provider), and Steininger ...
. in any event. CCA claims that it is eniitled to immunity under the CGIA because "Colorado Jaw recognizes that a private prison acts as the instrumentality or agent of a public entity" Ans\ver Brief at 26 ...
Brief • September 18, 2007
. THE GRANTS FACILITY {3} In 1988, CCA and NMCD entered into a “Management Services Agreement,” pursuant to NMSA 1978, § 33-1-17 (1995), the statute that allowed the state to contract with the private prison ...
CCA Pays $438,626 for Discriminatory Hiring Practices in Arizona by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest private prison operator, has agreed to pay more than ...
Colorado Investigates Former Prison Director for Malfeasance Following State Audit by The Colorado State Auditor completed a review of the state's private prison contracts in November 2006 ...
Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts ...
. Reutter Despite recent scandals and a new private contractor, the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) is still a facility with little direction other than as a confinement center to warehouse sex ...
CCA Fined for Florida Jail Escape; County Commission Poised to Impose More Fines by After a series of escapes, prisoner suicides and thefts by employees over the past year, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) promised it would take action to prevent similar incidents at Florida?s Hernando County Jail (HCJ). The …
Bivens Claims Against Private Prison Employees May Fail When Other Remedies Available by In an evenly divided en banc rehearing, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ...
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