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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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Work Stoppage at Idaho CCA Prison by Five weeks after it opened, the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), went on lockdown following a non-violent protest by prisoners there. Corrections Corporation of America operates the $50 million 1,250-bed prison. In early July 2000, CCA began moving Idaho prisoners from its New Mexico …
) to provide health care to prisoners. CMS, in turn, subcontracted mental health care to Correctional Behavioral Solutions of New Jersey, Inc. (CBS) while maintaining control over medical evaluations, lab ...
Louisiana Abandons Private Juvenile Prisons by The state of Louisiana agreed to a settlement in federal court September 7, 2000 designed to radically alter the way it operates its juvenile prisons. The agreement was intended to settle several lawsuits against the state, including one by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, …
at the Nobel Correctional Institution (NCI). In October, 1998, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) awarded a two-year contract to ARAMARK Correctional Services, a private company ...
Tide Turns Against Prison Privatization by North Carolina, Georgia, Utah and Louisiana are among states that experimented with private prisons and because of problems encountered have ...
status in September, 1996. The schools being financed by property taxes, abatements such as CCA's were a particular burden. Existing state law gave schools a say in property tax abatements of greater ...
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
University Cancels Sodhexo-Marriott Contract by Students from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, declared victory August 14, 2000 in a two month struggle to keep a catering company with ties to the forprofit prison industry from taking over the school's food service contract. In July, school administrators announced that the …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
opposed to prison profiteering, expressed skepticism about the company's pledge and called on Sodexho to divest itself of all private prison holdings (including recently acquired U.K. Detention Services ...
CMS Fined Nearly $1 Million in Virginia by Dan Pens Correctional Medical Services (CMS) contracts with the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) to provide medical care to some of its ...
Medical Claims Against CMS to be Refiled in State Court by By Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in Illinois has dismissed the breach of medical care duty suit of a suicide ...
. By then, atrophy had set in. At time, Roderick Edmond was the jail medical director. He was employed by Wexford Health Service, a for-profit entity that had contracted with the county to provide medical services ...
would be the next great leap forward for Ohio penology. So they bid out a contract for private firms to provide food service at the Noble Correctional Institution. Of the two bids submitted, from ARAMARK ...
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
prisoners were sent to hospitals near the Adelanto, California, medium security private prison operated by Marantha Private Corrections LLC. Fighting began at 7:00 P.M. and allegedly ended a few minutes ...
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Escape Costs Oklahoma Private Prison $304,375 by Gordon Flud's April 12, 2000, escape from a Hinton, Oklahoma rent-a-jail didn't end well for him--or for his prison. Flud, 44, jumped fences ...
by Cornell Corrections, a private, for-profit prison company. GPCF is the first private prison to open in Oklahoma. Dennis Cunningham, the Oklahoma DOC's private prison administrator, said at the time ...
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Prison Realty/CCA Bailout Deal Canceled by On the cover of the July PLN we reported that the nation's largest private prison owner and operator, Prison Realty/CCA, verged on bankruptcy ...
is not the only one taking action. On March 31, 2000, the Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against the Jena Juvenile Justice Center. It is the first time the DOJ has sued a private prison company ...
Wackenhut Wracked by Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ronald Young Wackenhut Wracked By Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ron Young After a decade as a leading operator of corporate-owned prisons, Wackenhut Corrections has become a prisoner of its own problems. In New Mexico, a 500-page legislative report written by five consultants calls …
Escape Costs Private Transport Company by A private prisoner transport company agreed to pay $50,000 to the state of North Dakota to defray the state's expenses for recapturing a prisoner ...
planned," Epstein told a packed house from the stage of the Tavern, "But Marriott Dining Services, a company that invests highly in private prisons, has determined that the show is not going to happen ...
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