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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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and on a strict regimen of medication. The jail had contracted with Prison Health Services, Inc., (PHS) to provide medical care to jail prisoners. McNally told the PHS physician of his medical needs and McNally's ...
Wisconsin Prisoners Stage Food Protest by On January 18 and 19, 1999, Wisconsin prisoners housed at a private prison in Sayre, Oklahoma, refused to show up at the prison's chow hall ...
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Private Prison Escape Explained by On October 12, 1998, four prisoners escaped from the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) South Central Correctional Center in Wayne County, Tennessee ...
Washington Prisoners Damage Colorado Private Prison by Amajor prisoner uprising rolled through a for-profit prison at Olney Springs, Colorado, for six hours, causing extensive damage. State ...
Washington Prisoners Brutalized in Colorado Private Prison by Waldo Waldron-Ramsey [Editor's Note: The corporate media in Colorado and Washington alike reported on the uprising by Washington ...
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
CCA - Prison Realty Merger Approved by Alex Friedmann A merger between Corrections Corp. of America (CCA) and Prison Realty Trust was approved by shareholders of both companies on Dec. 1, and Dec. 3, 1998, respectively. CCA had spun-off Prison Realty Trust in July 1997, then announced merger plans last …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
CMS Settles Wrongful Death Suit for $75,000 by In 1998 Correctional Medical services (CMS) and the estate of Mark Murphy settled a wrongful death suit for $75,000. CMS is the largest ...
Juveniles Held Hostage for Profit by CSC in Florida by Alex Friedmann According to a consultant hired by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, the Pahokee Youth Development Center (Juvenile prison) operated by the Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) kept ten juvenile detainees beyond their release dates for no other reason …
Violence Takes a Toll at New Mexico Wackenhut Prison by Ronald Young The 1200-bed Lea County Correctional Facility (LCCF), a New Mexico state prison operated by Florida-based Wackenhut Corrections Corp., has been plagued by nine prisoner stabbings during its first six months of operation, including two that resulted in the …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews
Private Prisons in the United States: An Assessment of Current Practice (Review of Report) by Alex Friedmann Reviewed by Alex Friedmann In 1997 Congress instructed the Attorney General's ...
themselves oppose the transfers because they don't like being separated from their loved ones and because the conditions in private prisons are often far worse than those in the public institutions. In March ...
. "We've been warning all along that Wisconsin prisoners would be abused in private prisons," Rost says. "The CCA has a terrible record on human rights and the professionalism of its staff." Rost says ...
Our Sisters' Keepers by Daniel Burton-Rose No one can imagine. What it's like. Not unless you've gone through it. Christina Foos has. While incarcerated in a for-profit prison in Arizona, Christina says she was accosted by a guard, Ernesto Rivas, as she stepped out of the shower in March of …
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
University Professor Shills for Private Prison Industry by Alex Friedmann Much of the statistical and academic information regarding prison privatization that is reported in the media ...
Plains Youth Center in Brush, Colorado, a 180-bed facility operated by Denver-based Rebound, Inc., was closed by state officials last April following an investigation that revealed abuse and mismanagement ...
New Mexico CCA Disturbance Not Reported for Hours by The warden of a private prison in New Mexico said that prison staff may have delayed notifying state police about a disturbance that sent ...
claiming that jail officials, Westchester county and EMSA Limited Partnership, a for-profit business that provided the jail's medical care, had violated his Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care ...
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Medical Services (CMS), which had a contract to provide medical services to the jail. Sheriff Ergle cancelled the CMS contract on January 1, 1997, and began hiring his own medical staff, including Hathorn ...
officials at this private prison (a for profit business owned by Corrections Corporation of America) assaulted prisoners with rubber bullets, smoke tear gas, and percussion grenades. Further assault ...
, especially for female prisoners, which extended past the point in 1992 when the sheriff contracted with Prison Health Services (PHS) to provide health care services at the jail. The monitor noted that the most ...
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