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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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Alaska Prisoners' Benefits Extended to Arizona by The Supreme Court of Alaska sustained a lower court's ruling which provisionally allowed Alaska prisoners to be transferred to an Arizona prison, required the Arizona facility to comply with Alaska's prison overcrowding settlement agreement, and found the Alaska prisoners' challenge to the process …
surpasses negligence and constitutes deliberate indifference (citation omitted)); Weeks v. Chaboudy, supra 984 F.2d at 187; Ancata v. Prison Health Services, Inc., 769 F.2d 700, 704 (11th Cir. 1985) (when ...
CCA Pays $54 Million to IRS and Settles Gender Discrimination Complaint by On October 28, 2002, Corrections Corp. of America, (CCA) settled its 1997 federal taxes after an audit by the Internal Revenue Service for the sum of $54 million. The IRS challenged the validity of the tax deductions that …
hepatitis C. He sued NDDCR and its health care provider, Medcenter One, under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101, alleging that NDDCR and Medcenter One completely ...
Johnson v. CCA, TN, Complaint, inmate-inmate assault gang in ad seg, 2003 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0276 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0277 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0278 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0279 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0280 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0281 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0282 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0283 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0284 CCA-AF (6/2/14 …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
of St. Louis, Wexford Health Services of Pittsburgh, and Prison Health Services of Brentwood, Tennessee. The South Carolina Experience From 1986 to 2000, the SCDC contracted a portion of its ...
of scandal and corruption. Money Trail For over three years Whitworth earned $3,000 a month as a paid consultant for the Bobby Ross Group, a Texas-based private prison company. BRG specializes ...
into a five-year contract with Philadelphia's cost-conscious Aramark Corporation to feed prisoners at 126 of the 133 prisons in Florida. The contract is projected to reduce FDOC's cost of feeding its prisoners ...
exhaustive hearing could be conducted." At that later hearing the sole witness for the government was David Thompson, a regional manager for Prison Health Services, Inc., which has a contract with the State ...
. But the director of Correctional Medical Services (CMS) denied the request on October 18, 1999. The request was later approved and scheduled for November 12, 1999. On October 21, 1999, Young was transferred ...
EMSA and Nevada Jail Pay $40,000 Settlement to Quadriplegic by In April, 2002, Robert Cornwall, 30, a quadriplegic, settled a lawsuit against the Washoe county jail in Nevada for $40,000 ...
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
. Michael Washington, a prisoner of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, (ODOC), was transferred to the Great Plains Correctional Facility, (GPCF), a private prison operated by Cornell Corrections, Inc ...
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
the Eighth Amendment. Baylor Women's Correctional Facility prisoner Shalnessa Goode sued, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Correctional Medical Services (CMS) nurses Jacqueline A. Nixon and Barbara LeWallen ...
Wackenhut Warden and Six Guards Convicted In New Mexico Prisoner Beatings by by Matthew T. Clarke Six guards and a warden have been convicted in federal court of charges stemming from brutal beatings and subsequent cover up attempts at the 1,200 man Lea County Correctional Facility in Hoots, New Mexico, …
. When he objected, he was not provided with an alternative wheelchair. Navedo brought suit against various MDOC officials including Maloney, Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS) and various CMS ...
for college classes that prisoners did not, or were not eligible to, attend. Dining for Dollars In 1998, NCI executed a two year contract with Aramark , a private, for profit food service company based ...
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
attempt in April 1997, was awarded a $1 million default judgment against CMS in Franklin County (OH) Common Pleas Court on March 6, 2002. This verdict comes after CMS and Franklin County have paid $2 ...
Florida Prisoner Dies in CCA Jail by Lonnie Burton On February 26, 2002, the family of a prisoner who died as a result of medical neglect at the privately-run Bay County jail in Florida filed formal notice that they intend to sue the jail, as well as the Bay Medical …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
but industry observers wonder who would buy it. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the Nashvillebased private prison operator, is a candidate buyer but most Wall Street analysts believe CCA already has ...
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
CMS Overdoses Five Boston Jail Prisoners by Five prisoners at Boston's Suffolk County jail in Massachusetts were rushed to a nearby hospital after receiving the wrong medication. Jail ...
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