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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 • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Private Prisons
Colorado Explores Ending Private Prisons by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins As public opinion continues to turn against profiting on punishment, a law signed March 6, 2020, by Governor Jared ...
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Doctor at Florida Detention Center Spread COVID-19 to Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An unnamed Armor Correctional Health Services doctor was blamed for spreading COVID-19 ...
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Justice Department and GEO Group Challenge California’s Ban on Private Prison and Detention Facilities by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 24, 2020, the United States Department ...
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Filed under: Private Prisons
, but it includes at least $3 million invested in an equity fund that owns shares in the country’s two largest private prison operators, Florida-based GEO Group, Inc. and Tennessee-based CoreCivic, with 2019 ...
Eleventh Circuit Holds Trafficking Victims Protection Act Applies to CoreCivic “Voluntary Work Program” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 28, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1589(a), 1595, or TVPA, applies to privately operated immigration detention centers. …
Former CoreCivic Nurse in Colorado Claims Sex Discrimination, Retaliation After Filing Complaint About Poor Medical Care by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A former CoreCivic nurse who worked at the private, for-profit company’s Bent County Jail in Colorado filed a federal lawsuit March 18, 2020, claiming sex discrimination by her …
a private prison run by CoreCivic in Florence, Arizona, claiming that staff has failed to protect its prisoners and the community from the coronavirus, according to a story in The Appeal and court records ...
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Orleans Parish Sheriff, Wellpath, Sued Over Louisiana Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Overdose by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The mothers of three children of a prisoner who died of an overdose of fentanyl while incarcerated at the Orleans Justice Center, the Parish’s jail, have filed a lawsuit against employees of the …
NaphCare, Oregon Jail’s Private Healthcare Provider, Required to Disclose Records in Detox Death Suit by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson An Oregon federal court in January 2020 compelled NaphCare ...
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
records related to a private prison contractor’s operations in the state were public information subject to the Texas Public Information Act (TPIA). The opinion bars an effort by the GEO Group ...
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
GEO Jail in New York City Sees Rapid Spread of Coronavirus by A GEO Group-run jail in Queens, New York City, saw coronavirus cases surge in the facility in May 2020. The 222-bed medium/minimum-security federal Queens Detention Facility, New York City’s only privately run jail, reported 25 prisoners and 10 …
CoreCivic Detention Center Demanded Detainees Sign Liability Release to Receive Masks by David Reutter, Kevin Bliss by David M. Reutter Detainees at CoreCivic’s Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) in California were enthusiastic when told they would be issued face masks to protect themselves from COVID-19. The mood changed quickly when …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Unsealed Documents Expose Treatment Failures at San Diego Jail by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso In response to a motion filed by the ACLU, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California unsealed documents in June 2019 related to the failures of San Diego …
of consequences.” Kowalkowski continued to work with DOC prisoners after the DOC replaced Corizon with Centurion in 2016 because he subcontracted with both companies. In 2019, the DOC awarded its prisoner ...
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Undisclosed Settlement in Kentucky Case a Textbook Case of Negligent Privatized Prison Medical Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The provision of medical care is an expensive ...
Facility (HCCF), a private prison operated by Tennessee-based CoreCivic, was initially called a suicide by the medical examiner. The prison’s report said he died alone in his cell that “no one ...
to publicly laud the firm, which with $2.33 billion in 2018 revenues is the nation’s largest private prison operator. Soon after it passed inspection, however, the jail lost its top two GEO Group ...
Former Captain at Louisiana Private Prison Sentenced for Conspiracy to Violate Ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Bill Barton by Bill Barton Roderick Douglas, 38, of Monroe, Louisiana ...
from 35 to 40 a year to over 400 a year. Negative publicity led Corizon to terminate its contract in May 2016. It was replaced by Centurion of Florida. Wexford’s contract was terminated in 2017 ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
GEO Group, Largest Private Prison Contractor, Cranks Up Political Contributions During Trump Years by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. In August 2016, just after an Obama ...
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