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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 • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Prisoner’s Suicide in Sherburne County Minnesota Jail Results in $2.3 Million Settlement by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders A recent investigation by KARE 11, a Minnesota-based NBC news affiliate, has brought much-needed attention to systematic failures at jails throughout Minnesota. Many local and state correctional facilities in that state, according …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
into any further lease deals. The judge dismissed those claims too. Ziegler has been an outspoken critic of the leasing plan, and played a role in the recent withdrawal of financing for the scheme [See PLN ...
EPA Slams GEO Over Disinfectant Use at Private Prison, Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction to Stop It by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Environmental Protection Agency issued ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
US Marshalls Terminate Contract with GEO Snitch Camp at Queens NY Detention Facility by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On March 16, 2021, the Queens Daily Eagle reported that the federal government had declined to renew a contract with for-profit prison contractor GEO Group to operate the Queens Detention Facility …
) arrested Rudy Rivera in Los Angeles, California on a federal warrant issued in Nevada for marijuana-related charges. They took him to the Nevada Southern Detention Center, a private prison operated ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Decapitated Prisoner Shows CDCR Safety Standards Still Headed in the Wrong Direction by Matthew Clarke California Inspector General’s office issues another reports highly critical of  health care at Corcoran and statewide prison employee disciplinary process by Matt Clarke In April 2021, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Illinois Prisoner Gets Mixed Results in Appeal of Suit Against Wexford and Doctors by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to a Wexford Health Sources doctor. It affirmed the judgment granted to Wexford and another doctor. The …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
held that assistance of counsel likely would have changed the outcome of the summary judgment dismissal of a claim against a Wexford Health Services psychiatrist and reversed the dismissal. Illinois ...
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
’t take place at “well-run, safely staffed prisons.” The Hobbs melee is not the first at a private prison in the state. “Two years ago, at the prison operated by the GEO Group ...
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Filed under: Private Prisons, Lobbying
“Progressive” Seattle Mayoral Candidate Exposed as Shill for the Private Prison Industry by Ken Silverstein By Ken Silverstein “I’m running for Mayor so every family can see ...
detention beds to house immigration detainees. 17% of ICE detainees are held in USMS-contracted facilities. ICE may also contract directly with a private prison company such as CoreCivic, GEO Group ...
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
of the historically Black Tennessee State University (TSU) in Nashville to change her decision to join the board of directors of the private prison company CoreCivic. News media reported that TSU President Glenda ...
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Illinois Prisoner’s Negligence Lawsuit Alleging Injuries from Wart Treatment Timely Filed by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of state law negligence claims based upon a prisoner being forced to self-apply a medication that was not supposed to be dispensed …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
to a private company. Private health care companies started springing up all over. Today’s modern industry is dominated by two major corporations—Corizon and WellPath. A 1999 survey found nine state ...
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
GEO Group Puts Money, Lobbyist into Defeating Bill to Prohibit Private Prisons in Virginia by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As Virginia was poised to consider a bill to end private ...
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Private Prisons
Kentucky Leases Closed Private Prison to Use as State Facility by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Kentucky in December 2020 reopened Otter Creek Correctional Center (OCCC), leasing it from CoreCivic ...
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
administration quickly reversed course. The Biden campaign promised to “end the federal government’s use of private prisons,” and opined that “the federal government should not use private ...
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
Washington State Governor Signs Bill Banning Private Prisons Statewide by Juliette LaMarr by Juliette LaMarr Washington Governor Jay Inslee in April 2021 signed House Bill 1090, which bans ...
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Sixth Circuit Upholds Prisoner’s 18 U.S.C. § 111 Conviction for Assaulting Federally Contracted Private Prison Guard by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 12, 2020, the Sixth Circuit ...
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Ransomware Attack on GEO Group Exposes Sensitive Information by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 3, 2020, the GEO Group, one of the largest private prison companies in the nation ...
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