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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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escapes from Cullen as well as the rape of a staff member at the Hickey School. Both facilities are operated by Youth Services International (YSI), a for profit division of CSC, the same outfit ...
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Officials Netted in Kansas Jail Bribery by A private company, MgtGP Inc., was awarded a $1.5 Million contract in 1997, and a four-year renewal in January 1997 worth $615,000 for that year alone, to run Kansas's Reno County Jail Annex. In May 2001, Reno's Sheriff, Larry Leslie, pled innocent to …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Judge Awards $2.8 Million to Victims of CSC Texas Boot Camp Sexual Abuse by Judge Awards $2.8 million to Victims of CSC Texas Boot Camp Sexual Abuse On March 5, 2001, State District Court Judge Paul Enlow found Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) criminally liable for the actions of two former …
CCA Conditions Claim Not Frivolous by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Tennessee Federal District Court's dismissal of a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims as frivolous, vacating and remanding part of the lower court's decision with instructions. David Dellis is a Wisconsin prisoner who was for a …
News in Brief by Roger Hummel Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor …
for prisoner-patients and for secure clinical settings. CCA, the nation's largest private prison company, has about 61,000 prison beds under contract. "In addition to streamlining our ordering process ...
Caesar was the Chaplain at Lorton Reformatory's Maximum Security Facility (Maximum) while Caldwell was confined there. Aramark is a private company contracted by D.C. to prepare and serve food ...
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Prisoners at Private Federal Prison in California Strike Over Food, Medical Care by Lonnie Burton On November 26, 2001, more than 1,800 prisoners at the Taft Correctional Institution (TCI) refused to report to work in protest of shortcomings in the prison's food and medical care. TCI, a privately run low-security …
Sanction for Lawyers' Exposing Secret Wackenhut Sexual Abuse Settlement Upheld by by Matthew T. Clarke The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the district court's sanctions against the prisoners' lawyers in a suit against Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC) after the lawyers revealed the terms of a secret settlement …
Ex-Ohio Sheriff's Deputy Wins $650,000 Verdict Against CMS for Prisoner Escape by Franklin County (Ohio) prisoner Alva Campbell was escorted to court in April 1997 while in his wheelchair ...
state correctional managers are taking a hard look at the private-prison industry, the federal government stepped up to fill the breach. Says Steven Logan, the CEO of Cornell Corrections ...
Hawaiian Women Prisoners File Suit Over Sex Abuse, Torture in Oklahoma Private Prison by Lonnie Burton When the State of Hawaii opted in 1998 to send its female prisoners to a privately run ...
Suicides, Staff Negligence Plague Private Arkansas Juvenile Prison by Lonnie Burton In October 2001, a just-completed state investigation concluded that Houston-based Cornell Company, the private firm that runs Arkansas's Alexander Youth Services Center, was negligent for failing to monitor an at-risk youth who committed suicide. The suicide was the second …
department violated Shaw's rights by killing him. A jury agreed and awarded Dowdy $377,500 in damages. $187,500 in damages was awarded against Davidson County; $187,500 was awarded against Prison Health ...
, and then persuaded a guard to write a report claiming the attack was in self-defense. CCA, the largest private prison company, operates the WCF, which houses mostly prisoners from Wisconsin. After the attack ...
of organization makes resource and cost control increasingly difficult. [See cover story.] In an independent investigation, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel documented a variety of questionable prison health ...
23 Escape from Wackenhut Prison in Caribbean by Gary Hunter 23 Escape From Wackenhut Prison in Caribbean by Gary Hunter A rash of escapes have fueled investigations into negligence and possible corruption at a Wackenhut prison. In less than two months, 23 prisoners have escaped from Curacao's Koraal Specht prison …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
of prisoners, many states turned to private prison companies like Wackenhut Corrections, Corrections Corporation of America, and Cornell Corrections. But the prison-building boom of the 1990s has now evolved ...
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
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in Malesko v. Correctional Services Corp. [CSC], 229 F.3d 374 (2 nd Cir. 2000) [ PLN, July 2001, "Private Prison Corp. Can Be Sued In Bivens Action"], the high court declined to extend Bivens v. Six Unknown ...
in that private prison than he's seen the whole five years he's been in. He says the brutality is horrible. It's a harsh, harsh life." In recent years, a variety of other, alarming revelations have beset ...
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