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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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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 ...
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Detainees Have Right to be Vermin Free by Two federal pretrial detainees housed under contract in the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in Pennsylvania sued jail officials for a wide variety of ailments affecting jail prisoners. Among the issues they filed suit on were: inadequate ventilation, extreme temperatures, excessive noise, use …
of $10,000 against the jail warden, $1,000 against the jail nurse and $60,000 against the jail's medical services contractor, CMS. The district court granted judgement notwithstanding the verdict ...
US Marshals Liable for Beating by Fred Sandoval is a federal prisoner. While being transported to a court hearing the Marshals Service placed him in a private jail run by the Wackenhut corporation, contracted to the US government. A Wackenhut guard antagonized another prisoner who, thinking Sandoval was the culprit, …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Minn. Prison Signs Contract for Puerto Rican Inmates by Minn. Prison signs Contract for Puerto Rican Inmates St. Paul, Minn. - about 500 prisoners from Puerto Rico will come to Minnesota as early as this month under a deal that finally will fill a privately operated prison in Appleton built …
." It is from within this context that we examine the privatization question. It should be clear from the foregoing that privatizing prisons would in no way diminish the fundamental nature of these institutions ...
place immediately. The private company providing medical services to the prison, Health Management Associates (HMA), repeatedly put off the surgery until August, creating serious health problems ...
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
HR-4079: A National Crime Emergency? by Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it does. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr., resigned his seat, leaving President Bush to name an even more reactionary successor. Not only will the pro-choice Roe v. Wade ruling fall by the wayside, making …
Article • July 15, 1990 • from PLN July, 1990
; and the trend toward "private prisons." It also addresses the dilemma of ex-prisoners, as well as much more. In these days of public hysteria and the continuing calls to build more prisons, this booklet ...
Prison Legal News vs. Corrections Corporation of America, Final Judgment, Sept. 2014
Murillo v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 3:17-cv-03181-MMM-JEH # 49 Page 1 of 40 E-FILED Tuesday, 21 November, 2017 02:39:59 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD Iv IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS JASMINE MURILLO, individually and as Plenary Guardian of the Estate …
Griego v. GEO Group, NM, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2018 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE ("Agreement") is entered into by Howard E. Griego ("Plaintiff' or "Releasor") and The GEO Group, Inc. ("GEO"). GEO explicitly includes Vincent Horton, Aaron Maestas, Albert Gutierrez, James Campos, and …
Sanders v. CoreCivic, NM, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2012 FILED IN MY OFFICI DISTRICTCOURTCLER 11/12/2012 6:56:37 Pl GREGORYT. IRELAN State of New Mexico County of Bernalillo Second Judicial District Court Christina Villa Roger G. Sanders Plaintiff No. D-202-CV-2012-10468 v. Corrections Corporation of America and Tim Morgan Defendants Complaint for Personal …
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