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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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Flurry of Escapes Emphasizes Prisoners' Desperation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Last September produced a bumper crop of prison and jail escapes around the country, including a desperate escape by two Texas prisoners that resulted in the death of a guard, a car jacking and two shootouts. Plus a …
(VP & A) has found breakdowns by staff of the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) in its furlough procedure and troubling care provided by VDOC's medical provider, Prison Health Services (PHS ...
of a Corrections Corp. of America prison cell. Four years later, that unsolved homicide has come back to haunt Republican stalwart "Gus" Puryear, the nation's top private prison litigator and Bush nominee for U.S ...
-tier program for healthcare delivery: the profit-driven substandard care typical of private prisons and the federal constitution-dictated standard of care provided under the Receiver. Recently-enacted ...
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
Corrections Institute, which opposes prison privatization. He added that the relative number of incidents such as escapes, riots and abuse of prisoners by guards is higher at private prisons than in government ...
Publication • April 10, 2008
Virginia DOC Contract with Prison Health Services, 2008 ATTA.t;DMENT V Illustration Off-site Serri~es Medi~l (;are Pool Risk/Reward Sharing (;oJDpntations Calculation of Annual Pool aased on Actual ...
Egurido v. Geo Group Inc., NY, Complaint, Guard Brutality, 2008 08 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK .J i) REX EGURIDO. r AP? 11lainliff, 1388 • ZOO~ .~OMI'LAINT BR:OOl<lYN OFFICE: Index No. -agaillst- THE GEO GROUP,INC., WILLIAM ZERILLO, "JOliN" WALL, "JANE" MARK, "JANE" ANDREWS, and .101 IN …
Brief • March 28, 2008
Allison v. GEO Group, PA, Complaint, Strip Search Class Action, 2008 234 4 5167789 4 164 1 64 1 36 11 111111 !!11"#!11 1 1 1 1 1 !$ #1!""111 1 1 1 1111 % 27684 &1''1769916&8 4 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 …
, the SCSO had had a contract with Prison Health Services (PHS) to provide medical services to prisoners in its jail. That contract was worth $2.4 million yearly. With the contract expiring on October 1 ...
to provide insufficient staffing levels. Although not identified individually in the report, St. Louis-based Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the state's main provider of medical care, was paid $49.2 ...
to LCS for construction of a 880-bunk private prison. Glower signed a $20,000 campaign ?loan? to Olivarez?s picked successor, former Chief Deputy Sheriff Jimmy Rodriguez, who won the primary but lost ...
bids were submitted, and CMS was awarded the contract over Prison Health Services. The new contract, valued at a not-to-exceed $168 million over two years, went into effect April 1, 2005. The OIG's ...
Plunk v. CCA, TN, Settlement, failure to treat lymphona medical neglect, 2008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0052 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0053 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0054 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0055 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0056 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0057
Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
. It was clear, however, that the DDOC?s for-profit medical vendor, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), had no plan to provide adequate staff and training. In fact, the information the Monitor received ?tends ...
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
across local headlines, Seal Beach, California officials shut down their privately-run jail on June 15, 2007. The city claimed that the jail?s for-profit contractor, Texas-based Correctional Systems, Inc ...
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Spectrum Health Systems Pays Massachusetts $7.5 Million for Fraud in Concert with Civigenics by To settle charges that it misused state money, Spectrum Health Systems, Inc. has agreed to pay ...
to Alabama. To create further bed space, a new 400-prisoner community education center in Columbiana is being built for non-violent prisoners, plus a new 300-bed women?s facility. The Alabama Department ...
Article • January 15, 2008
Nebraska Tort Law Notice Inapplicable to Medical Contractor by In partially reversing a Nebraska federal district court's grant of summary judgment, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held the Nebraska State Tort Claims Act (NSTCA) does not apply to contracted medical service providers. That ruling came in the appeal …
Article • January 15, 2008
screening for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). As part of the screening process, a medical technician with Cermak Health Services shoved a cotton swab into the prisoners' penises to collect a sample ...
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