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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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Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Report Highlights Force Feeding of Hunger Striking Asylum Seekers by ICE and GEO by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regardless of what people without first-hand knowledge of prisons or detention centers believe, prisoners are generally not the blood-thirsty, brutal animals depicted in the media. In fact, especially in the face …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
this year, the state passed a bill banning private prisons, and other bills like it have been passed in California and elsewhere. The work program at the Northwest ICE Processing Center has since been halted ...
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
, a private-prison company. Charles Overby is a celebrated instructor of journalism at UM. Among these other accolades, Overby served as the executive editor of the Jackson, MS newspaper, The Clarion-Ledger ...
Brief • November 4, 2021
State of WA v GEO Group, WA, Amended Civil Judgment, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05806-RJB Document 633 Filed 11/04/21 Page 1 of 1 1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 5 6 STATE OF WASHINGTON, 7 Plaintiff, 8 THE GEO …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$8.6 Million Award Against Wexford for Deliberate Indifference to Prisoner’s Kidney Cancer by An Illinois prisoner was awarded $11 million by a federal jury in a lawsuit alleging doctors with Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (Wexford), were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by failing to treat his kidney cancer. …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$72,000 Settlement Over Corizon’s Lack of Medical Treatment to Injured Arizona Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 8, 2020, Corizon Health, Inc. agreed to pay $20,000 ...
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
in September 2021 by a former California prisoner, Adam Cain [See: Adam Cain v. JPay Inc. USDC, C. Dist. CA, 2:21-cv-07401-FLA-AGR]. When he left Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Cain was given the cash in his ...
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Arizona Federal Court Dismisses NAACP’s Challenge to Private Prisons as Violating Thirteenth Amendment by Commodifying Prisoners for Profit by An Arizona federal court dismissed a civil ...
-run private prison, the Coffee County Correctional Facility. At 41 years of age, charges stated that Burnett smuggled drugs, cell phones, and other items into the prison for gang members. She and 47 ...
Brief • October 29, 2021
State of WA v. GEO Group, WA, Jury Verdict 2, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05769-RJB Document 519 Filed 10/29/21 Page 1 of 1
Brief • October 27, 2021
State of WA v. GEO Group, WA, Jury Verdict 1, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05769-RJB Document 508 Filed 10/27/21 Page 1 of 1
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
, disclosed that it allowed Boca Raton private prison contractor The GEO Group to get away with making hundreds of thousands of dollars of otherwise illegal contributions to Super PACs. The Federal Election ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Commission of Correctional Health Care standards, which were also used in DOC contracts, first with Corizon and later with Centurion. “Over the past six years, Defendants have consistently failed to meet ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
HRDC Case Sues JPay Over Fee-Heavy “Release Card” Debit Cards by A lawsuit filed in a California federal court on September 15, 2021, accuses private prison financier JPay, Inc. of violating ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Tennessee Department of Corrections Rebids $123 Million Health Care Contract After Corizon Accuses It and Centurion of Bid Rigging by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 10, 2021 ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
$56 Million Settlement in CoreCivic Securities Violation Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Private prison operator CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
File a CFPB Complaint for Unfair Money Transfer Fees by Prison Legal News (PLN) is encouraging our readers to file complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) if you feel you are being made to pay expensive rates to transfer money to your loved one in jail or prison …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Seven Former GEO Employees Plead Guilty in Federal Texas Private Jail Bribery Scheme by On July 6, 2021, Veronica Ortega, 45, a former medical assistant at the GEO-owned and -operated East Hidalgo Detention Center pleaded guilty to bribery after admitting she received cash to smuggle marijuana into the jail. She …
Brief • September 24, 2021
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
S.M. v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2021 Centurion 003119 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE ...
, a plaintiff bringing a § 1983 claim against a private contractor acting under color of state law cannot hold that entity liable on a respondeat superior or vicarious liability basis. Nesmith v. Corrections ...
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