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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 • May 15, 2007
to the dental unit, run by Prison Health Services (PHS), on several occasions and filed grievances with the result of inadequate delayed treatment causing the loss of two teeth. In late 1996, Williamson ...
." 2) Sarro could not maintain a Bivens action against Cornell pursuant to Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko, 534 U.S. 61, 122 S.Ct. 515, 151 L.Ed.2d 456 (2001). 3) Neither Cornell nor the guards ...
of mandamus, seeking to compel Aramark Food Service to provide a copy of the food service contract between Aramark and the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC). The petition was filed by prisoner Thomas P ...
Article • May 15, 2007
against the prison health care company, EMSA Correctional Care, Inc., in state court. The trial court dismissed, finding that Seale had exceeded the one-year statute of limitations in filing her lawsuit ...
PA Jail Immune from Suit in Medical Services Contract Case by Correctional Medical Care, Inc. (CMC) entered into a contract with MHM Services, Inc. (MHM) to jointly bid for a health care ...
Article • May 15, 2007
for Interlocutory Review Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) was awarded a contract to provide health care to prisoners in the Georgia prison system. Later, the state changed its mind and gave the contract to another ...
Article • May 15, 2007
PA Long-Arm Statute Reaches Out-of-State Civil Rights Violations in TransCor Suit by PA Long-Arm Statute Reaches Out-of-State Civil Rights Violations in TransCor Suit On May 5, 2000, Jerry Irons, an AIDS patient was arrested in Maryland on an Ohio warrant. On May 17, TransCor, a company that transports prisoners, took …
IL DOC is Not a Joint Public Employer by The Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) farms out its prisoner-medical-services to subcontractors such as Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (Wexford). During an unfair labor practices case before the State Labor Relations Board (Board), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees …
was employed as a guard at a Texas private prison owned and operated by Correctional Services Corp. (CSC). He blew the whistle on other guards for misconduct, for which he was fired. He sued in federal district ...
Delaware Medical Contractor's Policies Deliberately Indifferent by A Delaware Superior Court has denied a motion to dismiss a complaint alleging First Correctional Medical (FCM ...
$2,220,000 Settlement To Missouri Prisoners Formerly Housed In Texas by Over seven hundred Missouri state prisoners, who were formerly housed as part of a bed-sharing program in Texas prison facilities from January 1, 1995, through December 31, 1997, filed a Federal class action civil rights complaint regarding conditions of confinement …
Article • May 15, 2007
by a private transport company (Transcor) employee under contract with New Hampshire was unreasonable and violated her right to privacy under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Elliott was arrested ...
Article • May 15, 2007
to enjoin Missouri from attaching a § 1983 judgment for incarceration costs. Missouri prisoner Edward Moore successfully sued Correctional Medical Services (CMS) for deliberate indifference to his serious ...
WI Transfer to CCA Prison Upheld by The plaintiff challenged his transfer to an out-of-state prison. At 974: ". . . [A] prisoner has no liberty interest in avoiding transfer to another prison, be it out-of-state, more restrictive, or owned and run by a private corporation." The transfer does not …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Private Prisons, CMS
Reporter Sues CMS for Defamation by An investigative reporter published an article critical of the defendants; they responded; the plaintiff sued them for defamation and interference in his ...
Article • May 15, 2007
PHS Avoids Liability in Maine Prison Suicide by The decedent committed suicide in prison. The court refuses to draw an adverse inference against the medical defendants from missing records because almost all of them were from a period later than when they had any dealings with the decedent, and the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Wackenhut is a State Actor for Section 1983 Liability by Wackenhut is a State Actor for Section 1983 Liability The Wackenhut Corporation and its employees are "state actors" under § 1983 with respect to their operation of a jail under contract with the state. The plaintiff's allegation that a nurse …
Georgia Appeals Court Upholds $600,000 Judgment Against CMS by On July 5, 2001, the Court of Appeals of Georgia Upheld a trial court's $600,000 award to Stephanie Stitt, a former state ...
for this work is cut from $500 an hour (the expert's rate for being deposed) to $200. See: Boos v. Prison Health Services, 212 F.R.D. 578 (D.Kan. 2002). ...
for prisoners to demand it. Although a CMS spokesman insisted that CMS doctors are private contractors and that "it is the individual physician's responsibility to make sure care is given to patients ...
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