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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 • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
$56 Million Settlement in CoreCivic Securities Violation Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Private prison operator CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
File a CFPB Complaint for Unfair Money Transfer Fees by Prison Legal News (PLN) is encouraging our readers to file complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) if you feel you are being made to pay expensive rates to transfer money to your loved one in jail or prison …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Seven Former GEO Employees Plead Guilty in Federal Texas Private Jail Bribery Scheme by On July 6, 2021, Veronica Ortega, 45, a former medical assistant at the GEO-owned and -operated East Hidalgo Detention Center pleaded guilty to bribery after admitting she received cash to smuggle marijuana into the jail. She …
Brief • September 24, 2021
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
S.M. v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2021 Centurion 003119 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE ...
, a plaintiff bringing a § 1983 claim against a private contractor acting under color of state law cannot hold that entity liable on a respondeat superior or vicarious liability basis. Nesmith v. Corrections ...
Filing • September 3, 2021
HRDC v. Correct Care Solutions, LLC, VT, Opinion, Public Records, 2021 ENTRY ORDER 2021 VERMONT UPREM FILED IN LEHK's (E35938? VT 63 SEP 0 3. 2021 SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 2020-308 JUNE ...
Tenth Circuit Rejects Government’s Appeal Over Recorded Attorney Calls and Visits at Private Prison in Leavenworth by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Over five years ago, federal prosecutors ...
focused on the role of activist groups, like the #FamiliesBelongTogether movement and her own investment firm, in pushing for banks to stop investing in the private prison industry,” the court wrote ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Prisoner’s Suicide in Sherburne County Minnesota Jail Results in $2.3 Million Settlement by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders A recent investigation by KARE 11, a Minnesota-based NBC news affiliate, has brought much-needed attention to systematic failures at jails throughout Minnesota. Many local and state correctional facilities in that state, according …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
into any further lease deals. The judge dismissed those claims too. Ziegler has been an outspoken critic of the leasing plan, and played a role in the recent withdrawal of financing for the scheme [See PLN ...
EPA Slams GEO Over Disinfectant Use at Private Prison, Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction to Stop It by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Environmental Protection Agency issued ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
US Marshalls Terminate Contract with GEO Snitch Camp at Queens NY Detention Facility by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On March 16, 2021, the Queens Daily Eagle reported that the federal government had declined to renew a contract with for-profit prison contractor GEO Group to operate the Queens Detention Facility …
) arrested Rudy Rivera in Los Angeles, California on a federal warrant issued in Nevada for marijuana-related charges. They took him to the Nevada Southern Detention Center, a private prison operated ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Decapitated Prisoner Shows CDCR Safety Standards Still Headed in the Wrong Direction by Matthew Clarke California Inspector General’s office issues another reports highly critical of  health care at Corcoran and statewide prison employee disciplinary process by Matt Clarke In April 2021, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a …
Brief • September 1, 2021
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Padilla v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2021 Centurion 002098 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 9/1/2021 7:11 PM ...
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Illinois Prisoner Gets Mixed Results in Appeal of Suit Against Wexford and Doctors by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to a Wexford Health Sources doctor. It affirmed the judgment granted to Wexford and another doctor. The …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
held that assistance of counsel likely would have changed the outcome of the summary judgment dismissal of a claim against a Wexford Health Services psychiatrist and reversed the dismissal. Illinois ...
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
’t take place at “well-run, safely staffed prisons.” The Hobbs melee is not the first at a private prison in the state. “Two years ago, at the prison operated by the GEO Group ...
Publication • July 30, 2021
June 14, 2021 protest letter, submitted to me on behalf of Corizon, LLC ("Corizon") challenging the above-referenced award to Centurion of Missouri, LLC ("Centurion"). I have reviewed Corizon's protest ...
Brief • July 16, 2021
And that Defendants changed the monitoring reports without a valid explanation. 8 A January 26, 2017, telephonic hearing was held regarding Corizon’s inaccurate 9 audit/review process. And again the most recent ...
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