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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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Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Prison Realty Trust. This Nashville-based corporation is a spin-off of the world's largest private prison corporation -- another Wall Street darling, Corrections Corporation of America -- whose stock ...
Private Prisons Cheaper? by The New Mexico state DOC contends that Corrections Corporation of America has overcharged the state by nearly $2 million since the CCA-operated Women's ...
crashed near Collyer, Kansas, injuring five prisoners and killing one guard. Although private prisoner transport companies do not have a monopoly on poor safety records or incompetence, as the market ...
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Escaped Prisoner Rides into Sunset by Eight federal prisoners being transported in a van operated by Federal Extradition Agency escaped July 30 near Ordway, Colorado. Two guards working for the private transport firm were driving nine prisoners across Colorado when they stopped to drop one prisoner off at the Crowley …
announced that it planned to investigate the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC). The facility is operated by the Bobby Ross Group, based in Austin, Texas. It is one of many small "Rent-a-Jails ...
of a conflict over the use of pepper spray on "unruly inmates." Limestone County, Texas, contracts with a private firm, Capital Correctional Resources, Inc. (CCRI), to operate its rent-a-jail. The approximately ...
Missouri prisoners being kicked and beaten during a "shake down" at a Texas Rent-A-Jail. The state of Missouri announced that it was terminating its $6 million contract Capital Correctional Resources, Inc ...
A Day at the Human Zoo by Alice Lynd My husband and I toured the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, a new "private prison" that is soon to open in Youngstown. Near the entrance ...
that two CCA guards accompanying the prisoner refused to cooperate with the police investigation. St. Elizabeth officials told police "a large number of inmates" from the private prison had been treated ...
Managed Care Infects Prison Health Services by by Adrian Lomax In September, 1996, Melody Bird complained to guards at Florida's Pinellas County Jail that she was experiencing severe chest ...
U.S. Supreme Court: No Immunity for Private Prisons by Paul Wright The U.S. supreme court, in a five to four ruling, held that employees of privately owned and operated prisons ...
Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997
(CMS), the private business that held the MD DOC's medical care contract, refused to do so. The wire was eventually removed after four years of Jones' complaints. He then filed suit claiming prison ...
Jail Assault Requires Trial by The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that whether a prisoner's question to a guard about what would happen if he assaulted another prisoner, required a trial to determine if the guard was liable when the questioner then assaulted another prisoner. William Street …
equipment, prison officials point out that they don't turn down equipment that happens to be donated, or "surplus equipment" from other state prisons. Florida's private prisons don't have to be so coy ...
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
million a year by privatizing food service at the prisons. The KDOC, apparently undeterred by the un-happy contract with Compass Group, remains committed to privatizing its food service. Aramark ...
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
." Dover said the heat from the fire was so intense that it welded the van's back door shut. Another employee of the private transport company, who was riding shotgun, escaped without injuries ...
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
Private Prison Disciplinary Action Subject to Colorado Court Review by The Colorado court of appeals held that state prison disciplinary codes apply to private prisons and are subject ...
the past decade, private prisons have made a comeback. Already 28 states have passed legislation making it legal for private contractors to run correctional facilities and many more states are expected ...
Strange Bedfellows; CCA's Political Connections by Alex Friedmann CCA's connection with local politics began when the Nashville-based company was formed during Governor Lamar Alexander's administration. When CCA made a bid to operate Tennessee's entire prison system in 1985, the governor's wife, Honey Alexander, was criticized for owning $5,000 of CCA …
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews
Book Review - Privatization and the Provision of Correctional Services: Context and Consequences by Edited by G. Larry Mays and Tara Gray; Anderson Publishing (1996) This 185 page overview of prison privatization issues presents a thorough examination of the topic without coming down on one side or the other of …
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