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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 • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
2030. With it, the private prison contractor agreed to fill at least twelve day posts, eight night posts and thirteen 40-hour-a-week posts. After the firm flew in reinforcements, it said that CCDF ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion
Centurion Health Supplants Corizon in Missouri After Court Ruling by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders After a trial on November 3, 2021, a Missouri court ruled in favor of the state Department ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
in private practice. If private prisoner medical care providers are not entitled to raise a QI defense, the Court was without jurisdiction to hear their interlocutory appeal or that of their employees. Thus ...
the firm is ordered to pay to $37.6 million by Matt Clarke On December 14, 2021, a Washington federal court issued additional orders in lawsuits against Florida-based private prison operator GEO Group ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
’s private medical contractor, Centurion Health. In the suit, plaintiffs Richard West and Joseph Bruyette, on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated state prisoners, alleged that DAA ...
Private Prison Firm Revenues Soar on “Tailwind” of Immigrant Detainees by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 5 ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Ninth Circuit Overturns California Law Banning Private Prisons by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On October 5, 2021, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Federal Court Sanctions Wexford for Discovery Abuse in Illinois Prisoner’s Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 3, 2021, a federal court in Illinois granted a state prisoner’s motion for sanctions against Wexford Health Sources for responding to a specific discovery request by providing 272,000 pages of documents …
Brief • March 29, 2022
Encinias v. Central New Mexico Correctional Facility, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement (State), Wrongful Death (Medical), 2022 Centurion 002984 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE ...
Lake v. CoreCivic, MT, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 4:21-cv-00116-BMM Document 17 Filed 03/21/22 Page 1 of 13 Melinda A. Driscoll FRED LAW FIRM, PLLC 214 N. 24th Street P.O. Box 2157 Billings, MT 59103-2157 (406) 294-8396 (T) (406) 294-8398 (F) mdriscoll@fredlawfirm.com Attorney for Plaintiff IN THE UNITED STATES …
Publication • March 10, 2022
Filed under: Private Prisons
Congress of the US-Letter Private Prisons, March 2022 ...
Virginia DOC Terminates Contract with Armor Correctional Healthcare by Ashleigh Dye Plans to de-privatize prisoner healthcare by Ashleigh Dye On December 11, 2021, the Virginia Department ...
HRDC Wins Appeal in Florida Public Records Request Case Against Armor Correctional Health Services by In an opinion reached on December 1, 2021, Florida’s Third District Court ...
Show Me the Money: Tracking the Companies that Have a Lock on Sending Funds to Incarcerated People by Stephen Raher, Tiana Herring We looked at all fifty state departments of corrections to figure out which companies hold the contracts to provide money-transfer services and what the fees are to use …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
that spanned the late 1980s and 1990s. There he glimpsed a vision of the future, in which privatization would be his golden ticket. He then began Prison Health Services, which later became Corizon Health ...
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
JPay Founder Ryan Shapiro Indicted for Securities Fraud by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On January 6, 2022, Ryan Shapiro, the 44-year-old founder of prison financial services firm JPay, was charged in federal court in Boston with conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Also named in the criminal complaint was Shapiro’s …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
After Sixth Death in Six Years, Virginia Jail Cuts Ties with Corizon Health by Jayson Hawkins, Keith Sanders Corizon Employee Charged with Falsifying Records by Jayson Hawkins and Keith ...
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Dallas County Prisoner Trust Fund Bilked of $700,000 With Faked Debit Release Cards by Jail Employee by On October 19, 2021, auditors for Dallas County, Texas, reported to commissioners that lax oversight allowed an employee in the county Sheriff’s Department (DCSD) to use hundreds of damaged debit-release cards to draw …
Article • February 24, 2022
Colorado Bailing Out Private Prison Company on Taxpayers’ Dime by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott  On January 21, 2022, Colorado lawmakers advanced plans to funnel $5.41 million ...
Brief • February 8, 2022
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Miera v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2022 Centurion 003106 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE ...
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