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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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Showing Of Malice Under Eighth Amendment Excessive Force Test Not Required For Sexual Assault Claim by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that it was plain error to instruct a jury that, to find a prison guard liable on excessive force claim …
Arizona Jury Acquits CCA Escapees by Two Alaska state prisoners on trial for a 1996 escape from a private prison were acquitted by an Arizona jury. The prosecution was undoubtedly stunned ...
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
Private Prison Contract May be Invalid by Private Prison Contract May Be Invalid The Colorado state court of appeals remanded a case to the trial court for a determination of the validity ...
a corporation, East Carroll Correctional Systems, Inc. (ECCS), which issued 100 shares of stock to Wyly cronies and family members. Thirty-five of the 100 shares were issued to 62-year-old Dorothy Morgel, Wyly's ...
by shareholders. It remains to be seen whether the world's largest private prison corporation will remain healthy enough to attract investors and retain employees and customers (i.e. state and federal jurisdictions ...
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Riot at Private Prison by On November 14, 1999, hundreds of prisoners housed at a privately operated prison in Taft, California, rioted in protest over conditions, according ...
15 minutes before this thing went down," he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "If something was going to happen that was planned, what better time to do it than then? I think it was spontaneous ...
. His earlier roles with the Nashville-based private prison corporation included serving as CCA's director of strategic planning, and as CEO of CCA Prison Realty Trust after the real estate investment ...
DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care at Missouri Prison by Michael Rigby DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care At Missouri Prison by Michael Rigby Allegations of improper medical treat-ment, lack ...
men were transfer prisoners from Hawaii, being housed in the private prison. Amani, then 24, died of a heart attack induced by a drug overdose when packets of methamphetamine he had swallowed burst ...
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Denial of Medication Precludes Summary Judgment by The U.S. district court for the southern district of Ohio held that a genuine issue of material fact precluded summary judgement against an arrestee who was denied needed AIDS medication during his eight-day jail incarceration. Devin Karl Murphy brought a 42 U.S.C. § …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
against Correctional Medical Systems (CMS). Stitt fell and injured her back while playing volleyball at the Baldwin State Prison. The Georgia Department of Corrections has contracted its medical care out ...
imprisoned in private prisons or jails run by Wackenhut, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Cornell Corrections and Correctional Services Corporation (CSC). Private prisons hold about 30% of all state ...
" of the 200-person staff at the private prison had quit or been fired. CCA spokesperson Susan Hart declined to comment. Up to fifteen female employees, including guards and nurses, are suspected of having ...
. The jail was operated by the Bobby Ross Group, a private prison company. In 1997 a video surfaced, which was shown on national television, in which jail guards were shown beating and abusing prisoners ...
Out-of-State Prisoner Housing Contracts Subject to Long-Arm Jurisdiction by A federal court in Missouri has held that Missouri prisoners whose incarceration was contracted to Brazoria County, Texas, could sue Brazoria County in Missouri. This is a lawsuit filed in Missouri federal district court by Missouri state prisoners who were abused …
Ferris complained to jail nurse Sprowl that she was having a miscarriage. Sprowl, who was employed by Allied Resources for Correctional Health (ARCH), failed to provide meaningful treatment, and within ...
Prison Health Services Refuses to Pay by The U.S. court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a forum selection clause in an indemnity agreement between the Sheriff of Polk Co ...
Habeas Challenging Transfer to Private Prison Dismissed by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that habeas corpus was not the proper means to challenge a state statute allowing ...
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