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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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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
Prisoner's Action Affirmed Against North Carolina DOC For Negligence Leading To Amputation by The North Carolina Department of Correction (DOC) appealed the reversal of a 1989 summary judgment grant dismissing state prisoner Joe Medley's action for a DOC contracted private physician's negligence. The court affirmed the dismissal holding that the …
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 …
Publication • 2008
Filed under: Private Contractors
N 811 BROAD STREET. 5TH FLOOR. CHATTANOOGA. TN 37402 423' 553'5635 FAX 423"553'5645 H R s October 30, 2008 Mike Meyer1 CPA Hampton County Finance & Human Resource Director B.T. Deloach Building ...
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 …
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 ...
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
, 2007, an Illinois prisoner who claimed he suffered a stroke due to negligence on the part of Health Professionals, Ltd. a private company that contracts with the State to provide health care to prisoners ...
No Restriction on Moving Wisconsin Prisoners to Private Out of State Prisons by The plaintiff sought an injunction against his transfer to a private prison in Texas or Tennessee. His ...
Federal Prisons Not Subject to ADA by The hearing-impaired plaintiff complained of his treatment in a Wackenhut facility while awaiting deportation. Since he has now been deported, his claim about conditions is moot, and the court lacks jurisdiction to overturn his deportation even though he says he elected not to …
Article • May 15, 2008
No CMS Liability for Denying Treatment for Dislocated Shoulder by The plaintiff said he dislocated his previously injured shoulder in his sleep. At 511: "For purposes of this case ...
Littles v. CCA, TN, Complaint, transport dental injury, 2008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0067 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0068 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0069 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0070
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