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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 • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Do the Math by E.D. I read an article in the Wisconsin State Journal about Wisconsin sending prisoners to Texas. There are going to be 700 prisoners shipped there (40 per week, which will take 17.5 weeks) at a cost of $39.36 per day for their housing once they are …
Florida Private Prison Criticized by Dan Pens by Glenn Wright and Dan Pens Louisville, Kentucky based private prison vendor U.S. Corrections Corporation (USCC) was sharply criticized ...
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Canteen Corp. Info Wanted by Anthony Palacioz The Canteen Corporation of North Carolina has a five-year contract with Kansas to provide food services state-wide. After mere months in operation, Canteen Corp. has caused trouble by starving Kansas prisoners and serving shit for food. [See: "Un-Happy Meals in Kansas," PLN Vol.7 …
Private Prison Liable for Wrongful Imprisonment by A federal district court in Florida held that a private corporation which ran a county jail under contract was liable for a detainee's ...
No Qualified Immunity for Private Prisons; Supreme Court Grants Review by The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that guards employed by private, for profit prisons are not entitled ...
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Un-Happy Meals in Kansas by G.C. On May 19, 1996, the Kansas DOC turned over the kitchens of all the prisons to Canteen Correctional Services (CCS), a private for-profit contractor. It is worth noting that despite the contract to feed the prisoners, prisoner labor is still required, and the prisoner …
by the University of Florida, U.S. Corrections Corp. operates four private facilities, all in Kentucky, with a total population of 2,198 prisoners. They are the third largest private prison corporation, with a 6.42 ...
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
worked with Dominion [the very idea of a prisoner-broker boggles the imagination!!] to put warm Utah and Missouri bodies in the jail, and have found another private contractor, Dove Development Corp ...
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
More Trouble in Texas Rent-A-Jails by Bryon W, Ferguson by Bryon W. Ferguson Hawaii prisoner Larry Earl Pagan decided he'd had enough of Texas hospitality. Pagan, shanghaied from a Hawaii state prison [See: "Kidnapping and Extortion Texas Style" in the Feb '96 PLN], escaped in February from the Newton County …
Private Prisons Get Qualified Immunity by As the number of privately run, for profit, prisons grows, so too will litigation involving them. There is little case law involving private prisons ...
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
, such as Drexel Burnham Lambert, offered to underwrite the development schemes by selling high-yield "junk munis" to finance construction. The "market" looked solid. In a 1989 press release, N-Group Securities ...
NC Prisoners Riot in Tennessee by On October 28, 1995, more than 100 North Carolina prisoners at the Corrections Corporation of America owned private prison in Mason, TN rioted, demanding ...
they were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs thus violating his eighth amendment rights, were employees of a company called Correctional Medical Systems (CMS). The district court granted ...
Detention Center [a private prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America] in Florence, AZ, supposedly to ease overcrowding and avoid fines levied by the court for violating population caps ...
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
INS Detainees Trash Private Prison by On June 18, 1995, some 300 im migrants being held at the privately-run Esmor Immigration Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, chased out ...
Diabetic Sues for Meals by Prisoners with medical conditions are entitled to special diets if needed to avoid illness. Robert Taylor is a diabetic and an Illinois state prisoner. His medical condition requires that he receive a special diet to insure that he receives the proper amount of sugars and …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
is Wexford Health Services, Inc. Their home office address is 4500 PGA Blvd. Suite 302, Palm Beach, FL 33418. It is rumored that they provided services in Alabama ten years ago and were kicked out. Besides ...
Prisoner Raped by Custodians by A federal woman prisoner being transported from the Danbury prison in Connecticut to one in Texas was sexually assaulted by the owner of Fugitive One Transport, Arnold Faulhaber, and a company guard, Joseph Jackson. Both suspects were arrested on October 8, 1994, and charged by …
days later as a result of his injuries. Loretta Cherry, Cherry's wife, filed suit against jail officials and Prison Health Services (PHS), a Delaware corporation which was contracted to provide medical ...
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
Medical Claims Standards Discussed by Ronald Brewer is an Iowa state prisoner. He suffers from coronary artery disease. Employees of Correctional Medical Services (CMS), a contractor ...
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