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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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– the latter being a subsidiary of private prison firm GEO Group. One potential incentive to privatize is to reduce the center’s operating costs, which are expected to rise. A 2011 study by the Department ...
New Mexico Slaps Private Prison Companies with $1.4 Million in Fines by The departure of Bill Richardson as New Mexico’s governor has changed the previously lax business environment ...
Nation’s Largest Private Prison Companies Trying to Do the REIT Thing by In early January 2013, both Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group – the nation’s two largest ...
private prison companies – CCA, Management and Training Corporation (MTC) and the GEO Group – make more money when more people are incarcerated. But it’s largely believed to be in the public interest ...
Private Prison Companies Use Political Influence to Increase Incarceration by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A June 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) reveals how for-profit ...
Garcia v. GEO Group, NM, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2012 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 9/6/2012 2:28:26 PM GREGORY T. IRELAND STATE (ll" NF.W MFXIU) ( 'Ol.:NTY OF T1ERNAU LLO SECOND JUDlCIAI. DlSTRlCT COURT Kendra Goers DFl\NIS GJLfff.RT GARCIA. Plaintiff, frEO, Inc ., d/b/a the North East Ncrv …
of Walnut Grove in 1981. He was accused of sexually assaulting a female prisoner held at the Walnut Grove Transition Center (WGTC) operated by GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison company ...
Private Prison Industry Exerts Political Influence in Arizona by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and other state policymakers have been criticized for their close connections with private prison ...
Corizon Healthcare, the result of combining PHS Correc-tions and Correctional Medical Services; MHM Services Inc.; Armor Correctional Health Services Inc.; Correct Care Solu-tions; the Birmingham, Alabama ...
Publication • April 16, 2012
Agreement (hereinafter "Agreement") is entered into by and between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereinafter "County") and COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERS, INC., (hereinafter called "Operator") to become effective ...
an Inter-Governmental Agreement with the federal government that allowed federal detainees to be housed at BCDC, which was operated by private prison firm Cornell Corporation (which has since been acquired ...
as benefiting Boca Raton, Florida-based GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison firm. The backdoor proviso attempt failed, however, after the Florida Police Benevolent Association (PBA), which ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
against his son. It is important to note that Thomas Wierdsma is a high ranking official in the GEO Group, Inc., a private prison corporation ... with direct involvement with detention and deportation ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Electronic Monitoring: Some Causes for Concern by James Kilgore Electronic monitoring (EM) looms high on the list of alternatives to incarceration for corrections officials seeking solutions to overcrowded prisons and budget deficits. First used in 1983, today some 200,000 people in the United States wear some sort of electronic monitor, …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
of Florida’s Blackwater River Correctional Institution (BRCI), which is operated by GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison firm. BRCI was opened at a time when there was excess bed space ...
New Mexico Continues to Let Understaffed Private Prisons Slide on Most Contract Violations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2010, the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee ...
Article • February 15, 2012
be justified if there were no controversy concerning prison privatization. But there is a great deal of legitimate disagreement about the benefits of privatizing prisons. There is no evidence that privatized ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
, March 2011, p.34]. The private prison project had a promising start. Littlefield initially contracted with Correctional Services Corp. to run the facility. After the Texas Youth Commission stopped using ...
Article • February 15, 2012
Wierdsma is a high ranking official in the GEO Group, Inc., a private prison corporation ... with direct involvement with detention and deportation.” The counterclaim alleged claims of victim intimidation ...
privatizing state prisons. But first some background. Private Prisons in the Sunshine State Florida’s Department of Corrections – the third largest in the nation – has been in a constant mode of expansion ...
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