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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 • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Corizon, Medical
by Corizon Health, the medical contractor at the county’s jail, for failing to feed a prisoner, which led him to go into cardiac arrest, according to court records. The prisoner, Christopher Wallace ...
by CoreCivic while granting one. Federal prisoner Gerardo Cruz-Sanchez entered the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) in San Diego, California, operated by private prison corporation CoreCivic on February 4, 2016 ...
with Community Education Centers, Inc. docketed on the city council’s consent agenda. When she learned that company was a subsidiary of the GEO Group, she recognized it was the same firm operating ...
Tenth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of New Mexico Prisoner’s First Amendment Claims by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Monte Whitehead was incarcerated at the Otero County Prison Facility in New Mexico, operated by for-profit contractor Management & Training Corp. (MTC). He filed suit in state court raising various claims under the …
Article • October 4, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Congressional Black Caucus Institute Accepts Donations from Private Prison Companies by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Although the website of the Congressional Black Caucus states ...
Article • October 4, 2019
Arkansas: Private Prison Contractors Cited for Ethics Violations by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The Arkansas Ethics Commission (AEC) issued letters of caution to four companies ...
Article • October 4, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Why Our Movement Can’t Afford to Ignore Private Prison Corporations by Caroline Isaacs by Caroline Isaacs, Program Director, AFSC In 1998, I was a budding anti-prison activist, volunteering ...
Article • October 4, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
prison to maintain control of the facility. That was one finding of a December 2018 internal audit by Management & Training Corporation (MTC) at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility (WCCF), which ...
Article • October 3, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
denied in part a motion filed by private prison company The GEO Group, seeking to dismiss a class-action suit filed on behalf of prisoners in the Mental Health Unit (MHU) at the New Castle Correctional ...
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
GEO Group Cancels Contract to Run New Mexico Private Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 27, 2019, private prison operator The GEO Group, based in Boca Raton, Florida, announced ...
Audit Determines Georgia’s State Prisons More Cost Effective than Private Prisons by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A legislative audit, released in December 2018, concluded ...
Article • September 5, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Miami resort. [See: PLN, Oct. 2018, p.30; Aug. 2018, p.16]. The Florida Democratic Party refused donations from private prison operators in the state’s 2018 elections, along with every major ...
Article • September 5, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Federal Court Dismisses GEO Group’s Defenses in Lawsuit Over Pay for Immigrant Detainees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Undocumented immigrants in the United States often face wage theft when their employers underpay or refuse to pay them for their labor. A federal class-action lawsuit filed by the Attorney General …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
and the California Forensic Medical Group – the jail’s private medical provider, now part of a company called Wellpath. The suit alleged that a lack of medical care at the jail had caused Gillis&rsquo ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Corizon
Arizona Federal Court Levies Sanctions Against Corizon Health by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Corizon Health, headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, is the nation’s largest private prison ...
Steep Cost for Sending Hawaii Prisoners to Mainland Facilities by Hawaii has long been considered a tropical paradise, but those who run afoul of the law on the islands stand a good chance of being exiled. Over a third of Hawaii’s prisoners are shipped to a privately-operated facility in Arizona …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: JPay, Inc.
have received notification from JPay of the proposed settlement with instructions for filing a claim form or opting-out of the case. See: Salim v. JPay, Inc., U.S.D.C. (E.D. Tex.), Case No. 4:18-cv-00730 ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Former Florida Senator Now Employed by Private Prison Company He Helped While in the State Senate by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss After Florida Senate President Joe Negron stepped down ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons
Should Private Companies Exploit Prisoners Through Exclusive Government Contracts? by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A recent article in the journal Criminology & Public Policy posed the question of whether private, for-profit companies should be allowed to contract with government agencies to be the sole provider of criminal justice-related services, …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Lawsuit Proceeds Over Death of Prisoner at Privately-Run Jail by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Michael Todd Sabbie, 35, died on July 22, 2015 at the Bi-State Jail, which sits astraddle the border between Texas and Arkansas. He left behind four children. U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven, in a 169-page …
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