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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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is the United States' largest operator or privatized prisons and jails. The Nashville-based company was founded in 1983 by Doctor Crants and Thomas Beasley, former chair of the Tennessee Republican party. CCA ...
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
-ownership plan for $13.2 million. Prior to 1998, when it was purchased by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for $225 million, USCC ran four private prisons in Kentucky: Marion County Adjustment Center ...
Audit: California Private Prison Contracting Tainted by Conflicts of Interest by The California State Auditor reported in September 2005 that the California Department of Corrections ...
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
$28.5 million to the family of a mentally ill diabetic man who died from insulin deficiency while imprisoned at the Sumter County Detention Center. The verdict against Eastern Health Care Group, the jails ...
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
CONMED Not Using Licensed Nurses In Maryland Jail by Attempts to get jail medical services on the cheap may have backfired for Marylands Queen Anne County. CONMED, a private jail medical ...
Brief • June 27, 2006
Lujan v. CCA, CO, Depositions, 2006 DEPOSITION OF JAMES I. HALE SHEET 1 PAGE 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO 1 2 Civil Action No. 06-cv-00054-REB-BNB 3 4 RUDY A. LUJAN, Plaintiff, 5 6 vs. 7 CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, a Tennessee corporation; BRENT …
Aramark to Pay $65,000 for Overbilling Pennsylvania Prison by Pennsylvania's Dauphin County Prison (DCP) will receive $65,000 from its food service vendor due to overbilling. The settlement ...
Estate of Pennsylvania Prisoner Killed By Wexford Health Sources Settles Suit for $2.15 Million by Michael Rigby Wexford Health Sources and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have agreed to pay $2.15 million to the family of an asthmatic prisoner who died after her medication was denied at the State Correctional Institution …
Michigan Youth Prison Closed But Problems Continue by Michael Rigby During its six years of operation, the Michigan Youth Correctional Facility has been criticized over abuse, suicide attempts, and a policy of filling beds at the maximum-security prison with low level offenders. But even after its closure, the privately run …
, and South Africa. James Slattery, CSCs founder, will continue running Youth Services International--which manages 1,300 beds at 17 juvenile prisons--from CSCs home base of Sarasota, Florida. Slattery paid ...
GAO: Private Contractors Perform Poorly At Overseas Military Prisons by Matthew T. Clarke A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released April 29, 2005, criticized the militarys ...
Georgia Jail and Its Medical Provider Settle Jail Wrongful Death Suit For $500,000 by Joan G. Crumpler Wilkes County, Georgia and Integrative Detention Health Services, Inc. (IDHS) paid $500,000.00 for settlement of a wrongful death suit alleging negligent medical care, deliberate indifference to serious medical needs, and wrongly allowing a …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
PHS Parent Company Fires Executives For Cause In Billing Scandal by America Service Group, the parent company of Prison Health Services, has fired two high level employees in connection ...
Publication • 2006
ofPrisons. Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko, 534 U.S. 61 (2001). Although a federal prisoner may not sue a private prison corporation, employees of the private prison can be sued under Bivens v. Six ...
million contract with Prison Health Services (PHS) is illegal. Under New York law, profit-making corporate medical providers are required to be controlled by doctors. The reasoning is that business ...
Lawyers Bilk Cornell for Millions, San Francisco Jail Scammed by In an attempt to recoup millions of dollars, private prison operator Cornell Companies, Inc., has filed lawsuits against ...
largest private prison company, which is based in Nashville. Estelle Richardson, 34, was incarcerated at the Metro Detention Facility. On July 5, 2004, at 5:37 a.m., she was found unresponsive on the floor ...
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Sixth Circuit Reverses Judgment for EMSA Physician, Remands for Trial by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a grant of summary judgment to a physician employed by EMSA ...
the responsibility. Im only trying to outline the problems here. SFHS was hired in 2004 after the county severed ties with its former for-profit health care provider, Prison Health Services (PHS), after the company ...
lawsuit sought $20 million against the operators of Hickley: Youth Services International and its parent company, Correctional Services Corp. (CSC). [Editors Note: CSC was later bought by Geo Corp ...
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