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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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Denial of HIV Treatment Suit against BOP, CCA Dismissed by The plaintiff complained that he did not get adequate HIV treatment in the District of Columbia system because the Federal Bureau of Prisons failed to transfer his medical records (though they did send a piece of paper saying he was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Private Medical Transport Company Not Liable for Police Actions by At police direction, a private corporation transported the plaintiff to a police station, where he collapsed from ...
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: CMS, Civil Procedure, Parties
Debruyn, Health Care and CMS will be liable in a large monetary damages." Plaintiff's mention of Defendant CMS, however, is not done "against the person or persons he ultimately seeks to sue." Curry, 249 F ...
Article • May 15, 2007
protected by the statute giving the Bureau of Prisons discretion to select where prisoners serve their sentences. See: Dismas Charities, Inc. v. United States Dep't of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 287 ...
Article • May 15, 2007
Plaintiffs May Opt Out of Esmor Brutality Class Action by In litigation against the operator of a notorious private immigration facility (one certified class action and two individual actions which appear to have multiple plaintiffs), the class members were so difficult to locate that the court questions whether the case …
Failure to Provide Medical Records Waives Florida's Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Requirements by Failure to Provide Medical Records Waives Florida's Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Requirements Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that a Palm Beach Circuit Court improperly dismissed a prisoner's medical malpractice suit for failing to comply with pre-suit …
Pro Se Suit against CMS and Aramark Dismissed by The plaintiff's release from prison moots his request for declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiff's claim for "emotional ...
$143,774.55 Attorney Fee and Costs Award in New York EMSA Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On May 16, 2006, a New York federal district court magistrate recommended awarding ...
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
was unconstitutional and invalid. The Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) and its medical provider, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), routinely transported women prisoners to abortion clinics at the prisoners ...
U.S. Supreme Court: Failure to Exhaust Remedies Is an Affirmative Defense Under the PLRA by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held on January 22, 2007 that when a prisoner files an action governed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), the question of whether …
FL Jail Pays $500,000 in Medical Neglect Suit by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit upheld a jury verdict against the Escambia county Road Prison in Florida for $500,000 in favor of a prisoner denied medical care. The plaintiff fractured his hip ball socket and was repeatedly denied …
), Prison Fellowship Ministries (PFM) and InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI), alleging that PFM's IFI program in the DOC violates the federal and Iowa state constitutional prohibitions against ...
Juvenile Correctional Facility (NMJCF), in Charleston, filed a law suit against Prison Health Services (PHS), a company that provides medical services for several prisons across the country including NMJCF ...
with MCDC's medical contractor, Prison Health Services. Dr. Daniels diagnosed Tessier with pleurtis, a begnign condition, and ordered he be given a chest x-ray and motrin. About 5:00 p.m. on May 20, Tessier ...
reversed the district court's decision and remanded the case for further proceedings. See: Ancata v. Prison Health Services, Inc., 769 F.2d 700 (11th Cir. 1985). ...
$2,500 Awarded in Pennsylvania False Arrest Claim by The plaintiff in this case alleged that Wackenhut Corrections Corporation falsely imprisoned him due to mistaken identity, and failed to immediately release him when it was informed of the mistake by a parole officer. Plaintiff was stopped for a traffic violation in …
incarcerated in a private prison suffered no violation of his right to meaningful access to courts. Danny Ray Thomas is a Tennessee prisoner held in a private prison managed by the Corrections Corporation ...
Summary Judgment Partly Reversed for Refusing Amended Complaint Filing by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an Arizona federal district court for refusing to allow a federal prisoner to file an amended complaint. Michael Satz, a prisoner in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was …
Failure to Accommodate Blind Prisoner Violates ADA by A Florida federal district court has held that a private medical contractor, EMSA Correctional Care, Inc. (EMSA), and Sheriff Ken Jenne ...
Services (CMS) and Prime Care Medical (PCM) alleging that the denial of proper medical treatment by defendants violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Wall sought, among other things, $250,000 ...
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