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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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contract with Prison Health Services (PHS), a private vendor which supplies its own doctors and nurses. Late in 2002 PHS decided to "opt out of their contract" because they were not making enough money ...
also allowing prisoners to use debit cards. This Petition was filed in November 2003. It asks that the FCC allow multiple long distance carriers at private prisons, prohibit the paying of commissions ...
. Exhaustion of administrative remedies was also mandated. Fernando Herrera, a temporary prisoner in the Santa Fe County Detention Center operated by Cornell Corrections, Inc., a private prison corporation ...
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
an emergency $65 million to build new prison beds. That proposal included a provision to set aside $75,000 to allow the Correctional Privatization Commission, Florida's private prison oversight group, to take ...
Permanent Injunction Requires Full HCV Retreatment for Florida Prisoner by John E Dannenberg Permanent Injunction Requires Full HCV Retreatment for Florida Prisoner by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (S.D. Fla.) is-sued a permanent injunction on July 24, 2003 ordering James Crosby, the Secretary of the Florida Department of …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Court Questions Federal Assault Conviction on Private Prison Guard by Court Questions Federal Assault Conviction on Private Prison Guard In a case applicable to all federal pris-oners ...
as a recession proof industry and rural welfare program for poor whites. But prisons can be a double edged sword, sometimes causing more problems than they solve. Private prisons can be especially duplicitous ...
, namely Cornell Corrections. Hicks seized the opportunity. On August 14, 2001 Municipal Corrections Finance LP. (a Cornell/Provident creation) purchased eleven prisons from Cornell who promptly leased ...
in the death of a boot camp prisoner, plus $5.1 million in punitive damages, against Florida-based Correctional Services Corp. (CSC) and their nurse Knyvett Reyes. The August 27, 2003 $40.1 million verdict ...
records, and he remained tied down for hours. A former employee of TransCor America _ a prison transportation company and subsidiary of CCA testified that he saw "a bootprint" on Dafali's face shortly ...
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
," says Ed Bender, research director at the National Institute on Money in State Politics. "They are getting people who know the system." [See back issues of PLN for more on CCA and other private prisons ...
from their jobs. It was under these inhumane and insensitive conditions that Jimmy Villanueva died. SFCDC is run by Utah based Management and Training Corporation (MTC), a private prison operator who ...
Private Transport Company Settles Female Prisoner's Sexual Assault Suit by Private Transport Company Settles Female Prisoner's Sexual Assault Suit Extraditions International, Inc., now ...
. Michael Jerome Edwards was a driver for TransCor America, a private prisoner transport company owned by Corrections Corporation of America. The victim was arrested in Corpus Christi, Texas ...
, Tennessee ($25,000); Bacardi USA, Florida ($20,000); Questerra. Corp., Virginia ($25,000); and Cornell Companies, Inc., Texas ($10,000)--the third-largest private prison corporation in the U.S., which ...
PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues by by John E. Dannenberg Prison Health Services (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group, Inc ...
Article • December 15, 2003
Contract Physician Not Acting Under Color Of State Law by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a part-time contract physician was not acting under color of state law for purposes of § 1983 when treating a prisoner. Plaintiff Quincy West, a North Carolina state prisoner, …
Cornell Half Way House Employees Charged with Drug Trafficking by The Ben Reid Community Correctional Facility in northeast Houston is run by Houston-based Cornell Companies, Inc., under a $4.8 million contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In May, 2004, Roy Thomas, 50, Ben Reid's director of employee training, …
the $75,000 from Newsom but also been paid $135,000 over five years from the Bobby Ross Group, a Texas company that specializes in juvenile prisons. Prosecutors offered Whitworth a deal of 5 years probation ...
God Pod Under Fire by Silja JA Talvi By Silja JA Talvi, Santa Fe Reporter Prison program sparks lawsuit. Faith-based initiatives are all the rage these days, particularly when hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding have been available to programs and agencies that tow the religion-and-social-services approach favored by …
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