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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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Jr., D-Brownsville, who has worked for three prison contractors. Over about four years, Corplan Corrections of Argyle, Texas; Management and Training Corporation (MTC) of Utah; and Aguirre Corporation ...
a lawsuit over misuse of the employee stock-ownership plan for $13.2 million. Prior to 1998, when it was purchased by Corrections Corporation of America for $225 million, USCC ran four private prisons ...
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Higher Property Tax Collections Permit 25% Growth Of Los Angeles County Jail Capacity by by John E. Dannenberg A six percent increase in property tax collections due to soaring real estate prices will add an estimated $150 million to Los Angeles County coffers in the coming year. County supervisors have …
Guards Rape, Sexually Harass and Smuggle at Colorado Prisons by by Matthew T. Clarke There are new troubles at several prisons in Colorado. At a 250-bed GRW-run private prison in Brush ...
Guards employed by private contractors that operate Florida juvenile justice programs earn some of the lowest wages in the nation. The result is high turnover, which causes untrained and unqualified ...
Article • October 15, 2005
headquarters in order to more closely monitor its interests. Since its inception, Wackenhut Corrections has become one of the three largest private prison contractors in the nation, with 49 prisons in 13 states ...
finance director, Donna Arduin. Arduin insists she played no role in the California lease or GEO contract. CDCR currently is awarding four private prison contracts for a total of 1,017 beds. Sources: San ...
Private Prison Firm Donates $53,000 to California's Governor Schwarzenegger by Private Prison Firm Donates $53,000 To California's Governor Schwarzenegger by Marvin Mentor Newly-elected ...
convinced of the power of the IBLP residential program that the company now plans to institute similar pods in every one of its owned prisons. (As the nation's biggest private prison corporation, CCA now ...
Lewis v. Prison Health Services, GA, Medical Death Suit, 2005, Complaint Case 1:05-cv-02434-TWT Document 1-1 b Filed 09/19/2005 Page 1 of 30 R I G I Ni' ,'_ IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
systems, money wiring, surveillance, security transport, fencing and prison medical packages. (Industry giant Prison Health Services brought in rescued owls and hawks to draw crowds. What was the connection ...
CCA Guard Arrested for Sexually Abusing Vermont Prisoners by Sexual abuse by a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) guard has spurred three lawsuits against CCA and resulted in the guard's arrest. The legal activity resulted from incidents at CCA's prisons at the Marion Adjustment Center (MAC) and St. Mary's Kentucky. …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Summary Judgment for CMS/NJ DOC Reversed in Physical Therapy Suit by A New Jersey state appellate court issued an unpublished opinion reversing a lower court's grant of summary judgment ...
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Seventh Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment for CMS, Prison Doctor by In an unpublished decision, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to a prison doctor ...
analysis found that private prison guards were paid 28% to 37% less than state prison guards. Many of the legislators have been fighting for years to improve the pay of Texas guardswho are among the lowest ...
officials opted to send 290 prisoners to private prisons operated by Corrections Corporation of America, (CCA), the nation's largest private jailer, in 2004. In true CCA form, problems soon followed. On July ...
Manning v. CCA, TN, Complaint, poor medical care pregnant infant death, 2005 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0099 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0100 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0101 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0102 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0103 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0104 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0105 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0106 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0107 CCA-AF (6/2/14 …
, Individually and as Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF JUAN IGNACIO SANCHEZ, Deceased, and FELIMON SANCHEZ, Plaintiffs, vs. No. CV 05-784 JB/WDS MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING CORPORATION, a Delaware ...
governments have shown less patience, Prison Health has survived, and even grown, by buying rivals like Correctional Health Services, of Verona, N.J. In 1999, its biggest purchase, EMSA Government Services ...
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