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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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healthcare, Robert Sillen, took umbrage with Florida-based private contractor Medical Development International (MDI) by withholding $2.6 million in fees and locking MDI out of two southern California prisons ...
Colorado Investigates Former Prison Director for Malfeasance Following State Audit by The Colorado State Auditor completed a review of the state's private prison contracts in November 2006 ...
Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts ...
. Reutter Despite recent scandals and a new private contractor, the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) is still a facility with little direction other than as a confinement center to warehouse sex ...
CCA Fined for Florida Jail Escape; County Commission Poised to Impose More Fines by After a series of escapes, prisoner suicides and thefts by employees over the past year, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) promised it would take action to prevent similar incidents at Florida?s Hernando County Jail (HCJ). The …
Bivens Claims Against Private Prison Employees May Fail When Other Remedies Available by In an evenly divided en banc rehearing, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ...
Moore v. NM Dept of Corrections, NM, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Excessive Force, 2007 0 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF TORRANCE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE DISTRICT COURT D-0722- CV - 2007 - 1 9 8 FARRlS P. MOORE, HELENE. MOORE, Individually and as Personal Representatives of the Estate …
Publication • September 1, 2007
. Introduction There has been a large increase in contracting out for health care in U.S. prisons. As of 2004, 32 states contract for some or all prison health services (LaFaive 2006). Despite the massive shift ...
is bad enough. What's worse is that it is being done for profit, by the Corrections Corporation of America. CCA is the largest publicly traded private prison operator in the U.S. CCA has close to 70 ...
]. Armor's Chief Executive Officer, Doyle H. Moore, had founded Prison Health Services (PHS) in 1978. According to a 2005 New York Times article, "Prison Health proved adept at integrating itself with local ...
units of the antibiotic Rifampin to give to all 146 potentially exposed prisoners and 27 staff at the jail. Healthcare at the Gwinnett facility is contracted through Prison Health Services. Another ...
Littles v. CCA, TN, Complaint, transport dental injury, 2007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0071 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0072
and mental health treatment, which is provided under contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS). DOJ?s investigation found ?inadequate sick call systems in place, which directly interferes ...
deaths and injuries caused by the inept care provided by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and its previous medical contractor, First Correctional Medical. Taylor's testimony comes in one of many ...
MTC Stiffs Guards and Other Employees $169,105 by Prison guards are among the 393 employees of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), a company that shorted $169,105 in wages for work ...
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
environmental stuff. We?re mostly working on Corrections stuff.? In 2003 Allen was chairman of the House Corrections Committee. Even then he was active in lobbying out-of-state for private prison interests ...
Tennessee DOC’s Double Standard by G.A. Bowers Tennessee DOC's Double Standard by Greg Bowers The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) applies a double standard to ethical violations committed by its employees and those committed by prisoners. TDOC staff who commit ethical violations are typically reassigned. Even when fired, they have …
Escape From TransCor Van Not a Crime in Montana by On January 11, 2006, a Montana state district court set aside two prisoners' convictions for escape and acquitted them after holding that no evidence had been presented that they were in the custody of a peace officer, a requirement for …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Appeal Brief, prison riot, 2007 Certification of Word Count: 9,474 COURT OF APPEALS, STATE OF COLORADO rd 2 East 14 th Avenue, 3 Floor Denver, CO 80203 Appeal from order entered by Judge Michael Schiferl, Crowley County District COUlt, 2005CV60 Plaintiffs-Appellants: Vance A. Adams,et. a1. Defendants-Appellees: …
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