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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for prisoner-patients and for secure clinical settings.
CCA, the nation's largest privateprison company, has about 61,000 prison beds under contract. "In addition to streamlining our ordering process
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Pubic Hair Search by Medical Personnel Constitutional by The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has overturned a district court's order that held as unconstitutional a Sheriff's policy of searching a prisoner's pubic hair prior to release. PLN previously reported the district court's order. (See: Skurstenis v. Jones , …
Summary Judgment Denied in Oklahoma Jail Beating by A federal district court in Oklahoma has denied summary judgment against a pretrial detainee's failure to protect and deliberate indifference to medical needs claims. On September 5, 1995, John Winton was booked into the Tulsa County Jail on shooting charges that were …
Sanction Excessive When It Excludes Medical Expert's Testimony by The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held that a discovery sanction is excessive when it causes the dismissal of a prisoner's suit by excluding expert medical testimony. The Court also held that dismissing a claim for failure to …
No Interlocutory Appeal for Good Faith Defense by The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the requirements of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) do not apply to properly characterized habeas corpus petitions under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2241, 2254, or 2255, finding that those actions are not …
Summary Judgment for Private Physician Reversed by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment to a private physician under contract with the county, holding that contract services provided to the county constituted state action. The court also held that qualified immunity was categorically …
The Prison Payoff: The Role of Politics and PrivatePrisons in the Incarceration Boom
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A report published by the Western Prison Project and the Western States Center. The report
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. By then, atrophy had set in.
At time, Roderick Edmond was the jail medical director. He was employed by WexfordHealthService, a for-profit entity that had contracted with the county to provide medical services
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$100,000 Settlement in TX Restraint Chair/Pepper Spray Death by On February 22, 2000, Tarrant County, Texas agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement to the estate of James Livingston, 30, to settle a wrongful death suit. On July 6, 1999, Livingston was arrested on a trespassing warrant. He was allegedly abusive …
Prisoner Suing Prison Physician for Deliberate Indifference by A federal district court in New York denied summuary judgment to a prison physician being sued for medical neglect. The court held that a genuine issue of material fact was in dispute in that the physician may have acted with deliberate indifference …
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Just Care isn't the only player in the private medical prison market. CorrectionsNationalCorp. of San
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Correctional Medical Services (CMS) provides mental health care for Alabama state prisoners. In order to cut costs, in other words to boost profits, CMS initiated a policy to get as many prisoners as possible
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Mis-Managed Health Care in Texas Prisons by In 1993, Texas state prisons over-flowed with 70,000 prisoners. But the state was nearing completion of a $1.5 billion prison construction program that would more than double the number of state prisons. State Comptroller John Sharp appreciated what few Texans knew: the $1.5 …
of the jail's initial screening process the jail psychologist, Jeff Schultz, an employee of Correctional Medical Service (CMS), a private corporation under contract to the county sheriff, placed Douglas
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when he developed a psychological condition called "conversion reaction" that made him unable to walk. The jail contracted with a private company, PrisonHealthServices (PHS), to provide medical care
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Managed Care Infects PrisonHealthServices
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by Adrian Lomax
In September, 1996, Melody Bird complained to guards at Florida's Pinellas County Jail that she was experiencing severe chest
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Southern Health Partners, Drug Formulary •v" I Southern Health Partners You r Partner In Affordab le Inmate Healthcare Southern Health Partners DRUG FORMULARY Effective: April, 2013 This is a confidential work product of Southern Health Partners, Inc. Southern Health Partners, Inc. DRUG FORMULARY **Generic substitution will be automatic, if available …
Southern Health Partners, Infection Control Treatment and Prevention • • ~~ V I Southern Health Partners Your Partner In Affordable Inmat e Healthca re Infection Control Treatment & Prevention Guidelines Health & Safety Guidelines Corporate Office Address/Contact Information: Southern Health Partners, Inc. 2030 Hamilton Place Boulevard, Ste. 140 Chattanooga, TN …
Southern Health Partners, Risk Management Guide for Services Southern Hea]th Partners Your Partn er In Afford ab le Inmate Healt hca re RISK MANAGEMENT GUIDE OF SERVICES Confidential Work Product of SHP Risk Management Department 1 Effective: November 2012, Revised January 2014 SHP 000104 Southern Hea]th Partners Your Partn er …
