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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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After Backlash, Tennessee State University President Reverses Decision to Join CoreCivic Board

Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

of the historically Black Tennessee State University (TSU) in Nashville to change her decision to join the board of directors of the private prison company CoreCivic. News media reported that TSU President Glenda ...

CoreCivic Sued Over Prisoner Who Committed Suicide in Tennessee Prison

Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

;s second-largest private prison operator with 2019 revenues of $1.981 billion. According to a report by The Jackson Sun, CoreCivic’s four Tennessee prisons have a suicide rate nearly double ...

Investment Firm Buys Corizon

Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020

Filed under: Corizon

Investment Firm Buys Corizon by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 30, 2020, Flacks Group, a Miami-based global investment firm, announced that it had purchased Brentwood, Tennessee-based ...

Smith v. CoreCivic, Inc., et al, TN, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2020

Brief • August 19, 2020

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

of Prisons by private contractors, including those operated by CoreCivic. As a result, the Department of Justice indicated that it would phase out its relationships with private prisons. That, in turn, led ...

Smith v. CoreCivic, Inc., et al, TN, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2020

Publication • August 19, 2020

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

Another Prisoner Dies at Tennessee Prison Run By CoreCivic

Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison/Jail Murders, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides

Facility (HCCF), a private prison operated by Tennessee-based CoreCivic, was initially called a suicide by the medical examiner. The prison’s report said he died alone in his cell that “no one ...

CoreCivic Booted from LGBT Chamber of Commerce in Hometown

Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

CoreCivic as a member and return their $300 membership fee.” Speakers at the meeting pointed to the private prison company’s dismal record of poor conditions and abuse inside its facilities ...

Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury Performance Audit Report, Department of Correction, TN, 2020

Publication • January 1, 2020

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Sexual Harassment, Medical, Injury -- Misc., Mental Health, Suicides

for the inmate population. The department’s medical and mental health contractors, Centurion of Tennessee, LLC and Corizon Health, have been unable to consistently meet contractually required medical and mental ...

Letter to Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce re CoreCivic membership, October 2019

Publication • October 7, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, HRDC Publications

. To be clear and for full disclosure, I’m opposed to private prisons that incarcerate people for the purpose of generating corporate profit. Having served time at a CoreCivic facility, I have empirical ...

CoreCivic Prisons in Tennessee Have Twice as Many Murders, Four Times the Homicide Rate as State-Run Facilities

Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, PLN related

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 ...

CoreCivic Prisons in Tennessee Have Twice as Many Murders, Four Times the Homicide Rate as State-Run Facilities

Article • July 16, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison/Jail Murders, Articles About PLN, PLN related

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 ...

Tennessee: Federal Court Grants Class-Action Status in Shareholder Suit Against CoreCivic

Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Class Certification

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 ...

Grae v. Corrections Corp. of America / CoreCivic, TN, motion to reconsider class certification denial, securities fraud, 2019

Brief • March 26, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Money/Property

is a publicly traded real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that owns and operates private prisons and detention facilities. Amalgamated is the lead plaintiff in a putative class action against CoreCivic and four ...

Tennessee: Class-Action Suit Against Private  Prison Over Diabetic Care Can Proceed

Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Medical, Diabetes

Tennessee: Class-Action Suit Against Private  Prison Over Diabetic Care Can Proceed by In October 2018, a federal district court declined to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that claimed ...

Head of Nashville’s Correct Care Solutions arrested for DUI

Article • December 14, 2018

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, DUI

Head of Nashville’s Correct Care Solutions arrested for DUI by Rick Anderson by Rick Anderson Jerry Boyle, CEO of Correct Care Solutions, was arrested for driving under the influence on June ...

Johnson v. CoreCivic, et al., TN, order, wrongful death, 2018

Brief • November 5, 2018

Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Gangs, Injury -- Misc., Eighth Amendment, Wrongful Death, Failure to Protect (Staff)

spouse died November 2, 2017, after having been severely beaten during his incarceration at the Hardeman County Correctional Center (“HCCC” or “the jail”). (Am. Compl. ¶ 1.) The jail is a private prison ...

Protesters Blockade CoreCivic Headquarters in Nashville; 19 Arrests

Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Protests, Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Immigration

Protesters Blockade CoreCivic Headquarters in Nashville; 19 Arrests by As dawn broke on August 6, 2018, the light shone on a group of about two dozen protesters who had blockaded the main entrance to the Nashville, Tennessee headquarters of CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), the nation’s largest for-profit prison …

Protest Results in Three Arrests at CoreCivic’s Annual Shareholders Meeting

Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Protests, Advocacy, Prison Reform

Protest Results in Three Arrests at CoreCivic’s Annual Shareholders Meeting by On May 10, 2018, drumbeats echoed and faux “blood” flowed through the parking lot at the Nashville, Tennessee headquarters of CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), as activists staged dramatic street theater to represent the sorrow, suffering and deaths …

Incorrect Cause of Tennessee Prisoner’s Death Reported by CoreCivic Employees

Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Drug Overdose, Statistics/Trends, Wrongful Death

Incorrect Cause of Tennessee Prisoner’s Death Reported by CoreCivic Employees by According to the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), state prisoner Edward Ray Gilley, Jr., 54, died on November 5, 2016 at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a facility owned and operated by CoreCivic – previously known as Corrections Corporation …

In the Public Interest - An Examination of Private Financing for Correctional and Immigration Detention Facilities, 2018

Publication • June 1, 2018

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Staff Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Prison Industries, Workplace Injury, Work Conditions/Safety, Prison Gangs, Staffing, Security Systems, Guard Brutality/Beatings

private prison companies, CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA) and GEO Group, are actively pushing governments to consider the use of private financing to build new facilities ...

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