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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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Court Denies Jail Staff Motion to Dismiss in Death Suit by The plaintiff sued over the decedent's death in jail. A nurse, a doctor, and a private medical provider moved for a more definitive (sic) statement, asserting that language in the complaint such as "inter alia" and "is not limited …
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 ...
Article • May 15, 2007
Public Right To Judicial Proceedings Outweighs Private Parties' Confidentiality Agreements by Public Right To Judicial Proceedings Outweighs Private Parties' Confidentiality Agreements East Coast Media Companies appealed a sealing order by New Jersey Superior Court's Law Division for private parties' contractual agreements and court documents relating to an alternative dispute resolution. …
Article • May 15, 2007
U.S.C § 1983." See: Sirois v. Prison Health Services, 233 F.Supp.2d 52 (D.Me. 2002). ...
Prison and CMS Liable for Prisoner's Asthma Death by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit held that Georgia prison officials were liable for a prisoner's death from asthma ...
."' The former were employees of Correctional Medical Services (CMS). The complaint alleged that the defendants were deliberately indifferent to the prisoner's safety, in violation of the Eighth Amendment ...
Article • May 15, 2007
. After the defendants filed motions for summary judgment, the court found that genuine issues of material fact existed solely for plaintiff Freddie Mills. Mills' claim grew from CMS's failure to provide ...
Fired Guard Eligible for Unemployment Benefits by A Louisiana appeals court upheld unemployment benefits for a fired Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) guard. While working at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, the guard witnessed another guard speaking offensively to a black prisoner. The observing guard wrote a letter addressing …
Article • May 15, 2007
Tenth Circuit Holds COA Required on All State Habeas Appeals by The Tenth District Court of Appeals has denied a certificate of appealability (COA) to, and dismissed the appeal of the habeas corpus petition of a Wyoming state prisoner housed in a private Colorado prison. In so ruling, the appeals …
Article • May 15, 2007
of epilepsy and brought his medication with him to the jail. A doctor employed by defendant Prison Health Services ordered the prisoner to have his medication. The prisoner was denied the medication ...
Article • May 15, 2007
sufficient to withstand a motion to dismiss. Nartin Drake, a prisoner at the Cook County Jail, brought actions under §1983 and state law against jail officials and Aramark Food Services (AFS), which contracts ...
Texas: Sexually Assaulted Boot Camp Prisoners Awarded $2,800,000 Against CSC by On December 12, 2001 three former female prisoners who claimed they were sexually assaulted while imprisoned in a privately operated boot camp in Mansfield, Texas were awarded a total of $2,800,000 against the camp's operator. Plaintiffs, Keri Echols Chattha, …
Jury Need Decide Superintendents Liability in GA Prisoner's Death by This case was before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for the second time on a 42 U.S.C. §1983 action arising from the death, after a severe asthma attack, of a Georgia prisoner. The first appeal, Howell v. Evans, 922 …
involving a Title VII discrimination suit against Correctional Physician Services (CPS), the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the company's buyer, Prison Health Services (PHS), was subject ...
. Sanchez then reportedly followed Ellison to the McKinley County Adult Detention Center, which is operated by Management and Training Corporation (MTC), a private company. At the jail Sanchez allegedly told ...
CCA Settles Wrongful Death Suit in Texas For $60,000 by In 1998, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $60,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the father of a prisoner who died from a drug overdose at a CCA-operated prison. Hugh Wayne Martin, a Texas state prisoner, was transferred to …
PLRA Exhaustion-of-Remedies Requirement Applies to Private Prison by by Matthew T. Clarke On September 8, 2004 the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that prisoners incarcerated ...
Article • May 15, 2007
Eighth Circuit Upholds Judgment Against CMS For Delayed Dental Care by In an unpublished opinion filed on August 7, 2001, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judgment against ...
for approximately 2 years as an employee of Prison Health Services, which contracted with the state to provide medical care at the prison. According to the plaintiff, she was a consistent critic of PHS procedures ...
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