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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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facilities prior to his release in 1999 and is now an expert on the private prison industry. “CoreCivic – and the Tennessee Department of Correction, which monitors the state’s private prison ...
an expert on the private prison industry. “CoreCivic – and the Tennessee Department of Correction, which monitors the state’s private prison contracts – need to explain ...
Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Motions to Dismiss by Corizon and Wexford Denied in Lawsuit Over Florida Prisoner’s Double Leg Amputation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On December 14, 2018, a federal district court ...
Montana Parolee Sues CoreCivic Over Prison Assault, Brain Injury by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A former prisoner at the Crossroads Correctional Center near Shelby, Montana is suing the facility’s private operator, CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) and its contract medical provider, alleging staff allowed another prisoner to assault him …
$3 Million Settlement Where Prison Doctor Failed to Treat Disabled Illinois Prisoner by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Mario Ramirez is disabled, more so now than when he was incarcerated at the Graham Correctional Center in Illinois. The facility contracted with Wexford Health Sources, owned by The Bantry Group Corp., …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Study Finds More Private Prisons Result in Judges Imposing Slightly Longer Sentences by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  In a report published on March 24, 2019, researchers from Columbia ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
General Sally Q. Yates directed the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to phase out private prison contracts – a directive later reversed by the Trump administration. [See: PLN, Oct. 2018, p.30; Oct ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
New Mexico Riot Raises Questions About Private Prison Company’s Competence by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The police department in Clayton, New Mexico and the state police ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
of Prison Legal News, prevailed in a lawsuit seeking to force private prison contractor GEO Group to comply with Vermont’s public records law.  The complaint, filed in a Vermont Superior Court ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Over $980,000 in Damages, Fees Awarded in Deliberate Indifference Case Against Wexford by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Private prison medical care firm Wexford Health Sources, Inc. filed ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
Pennsylvania Town Rejects Private Prison Firm by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regular readers of Prison Legal News are well aware of the abysmal reputations that private, for-profit prisons have ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Corizon Settles Lawsuit Over Colorado Jail Prisoner’s Death for $3.7 Million; County Pays Another $200,000 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A lawsuit over the 2015 death of Adams County ...
Class Action Challenges Theft of Millions of Digital Music Files from Florida Prisoners by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A class-action lawsuit accuses the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) of confiscating prisoners’ “lawfully purchased property without compensation” so the department and its vendor, JPay, could realize profit through …
-trial detainee Pedro Sanchez, Jr. has survived a motion to dismiss filed by the county jail’s medical provider, Correct Care Solutions (now known as Wellpath), and several of the company’s ...
Article • June 4, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons
that was supposed to be secure. Clarke said there had been an “abject failure” by the private prison operator. Rory Stewart, Minister for Prisons, added, “It has become clear that drastic action ...
Article • June 4, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Itself The lawsuits in Texas and Vermont mirror other, successful cases previously filed in those same states by HRDC against another private prison firm. In one of those suits, HRDC sought public records ...
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Major Prison Telecom Merger Canceled; Victory for Campaign for Prison Phone Justice! by The prison phone industry, which provides telecom services for prisons, jails and other detention facilities, has a long and sordid history of exploiting prisoners and their families by charging exorbitant phone rates and fees. [See: PLN, Dec. …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
BOP Official Who Ordered More Prisoners Sent to Private Prisons Hired by GEO Group by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Frank Lara was the Assistant Director of the Correctional Programs ...
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons, Corizon
Kansas Slaps Corizon Health with Millions in Fines for Contract Violations by Chad Marks by Chad Marks “They don’t care who dies, how they die or what they do to you.&rdquo ...
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Florida Fleeces Prisoners with High Canteen Prices by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has expanded the use of private contractors in the state ...
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