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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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PHS Pays $350,000 to Settle Claim for Over-Medication Death of Florida Jail Prisoner by Prison Health Services (PHS) has, once again, entered into a pretrial settlement to pay the family ...
State Auditor Blasts Colorado DOC's Private Prison Oversight Failures by Matthew T. Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In June 2005, the Colorado State Auditor released its April 2005 report ...
Fair Labor Standards Acts Minimum Wage Provision Not Applicable to Private Prisons by Fair Labor Standards Acts Minimum Wage Provision Not Applicable to Private Prisons The Seventh Circuit ...
Cruz v. CCA, VT, Settlement, Lee riot guard beating, 2006 LANGROCK SPERRY & WOOL, LLP MIDDLEBURY BURUNGTON Michael W. Wool Mark L. Sperry Christopher L. Davis Thomas Z. Carlson Susan M. Murray Alison ). Bell Lisa B. Shelkrot Eric M. Knudsen David W. M. Conard ATTORNEYS AT LAW Peter F. …
and operating private prisons, for profit, in the United States, including four private prisons in the State of Colorado. In July, 2004, CCA owned and operated the Crowley County Correctional Facility ...
and operating private prisons, for profit, in the United States, including four private prisons in the State of Colorado. In July, 2004, CCA owned and operated the Crowley County Correctional Facility ...
Rebellion at CCA Prison in Texas by On August 27, 2005, a riot involving hundreds of prisoners broke out in a private prison run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) in Mineral Wells ...
also repeatedly complained of back pain, shortness of breath and chest pains in January and February. Her frequent complaints caused the private prison's doctor to order psychiatric care for her. Every ...
Wackenhut Settles Pennsylvania Suicide Suit For $125,000 by On May 11, 2005, Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (now known as Geo Group) agreed to settle for $125,000 a lawsuit arising from the suicide death of a prisoner in the Wackenhut-operated George W. Hill Correctional Facility, also known as the Delaware County prison. …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Filed under: Private Prisons, Financing
Avalon Correctional Services Delisted From NASDAQ by On February 3, 2005, Avalon Correctional Services, Inc., announced that it had filed Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Myers v. CCA, VT, Complaint, Denying Treatment Medical Neglect, 2006 STATEMENT OF CLAIM 1). While incarcerated at West Tennessee Detention Mason Tennessee 38049 I was serving my prison sentence for the state of Vermont under a interstate contract agreement between the State of Vermont and CCA. CCA for the purpose …
Baker v. CCA, VT, Settlement, Lee riot guard beating, 2005 LYNN, TM1 & M1HALICH 7 FC ATTORNEYS AT LAW BARBARA R. BLACKMAN STEVEN C. COLLIER PIETRO J. LYNN JENNIFER G. MIHALICH MATTHEW A. SIEBEL HEATHER E. THOMAS JEFFREY S. MARLIN March 13, 2006 Devin McLaughlin, Esq. Langrock Sperry & Wool …
been provided by Tennessee-based Prison Health Services (PHS) since 2000, is in disarray. Prisoners sometimes receive the wrong medicine or none at all; records are poorly kept; physical exams are often ...
by Cornell Companies Inc., a private contractor. It's unknown if Berry has molested any of the children at those prisons. Sources: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, AP ...
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Private Prisons Bilk $13 million From Florida; State Awards More Contracts by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida's Correctional Privatization Commission (CPC) consistently failed ...
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone Revenues Sues California DOC by Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone ...
to influence the state to expand its use of private prisons, in November 2004 the Geo Group had hired former California Finance Director Donna Arduin ten days after she left her top-level job overseeing all ...
. In a related transaction, CSC CEO James Slattery agreed to buy back the company's juvenile services division, Youth Services International (YSI), for $3.75 million and will continue to operate YSI's 17 juvenile ...
was then taken to the Schenectady County Jail to be seen by a nurse employed at that facility by EMSA Correctional Care [later bought out by Prison Health Services (PHS)]. The nurse placed him on the medical tier ...
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