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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 • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
) paid more than $15 million to private prison operator GEO Group for deportation flights to repatriate thousands of Haitian migrants. The contract covered 44 charter flights from Texas to Haiti over a two ...
the firm is ordered to pay to $37.6 million by Matt Clarke On December 14, 2021, a Washington federal court issued additional orders in lawsuits against Florida-based private prison operator GEO Group ...
Private Prison Firm Revenues Soar on “Tailwind” of Immigrant Detainees by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 5 ...
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Seven Prisoners Died in 2021, One by Homicide, at Virginia’s Only Private Prison by The Lawrenceville Correctional Center (LCC), Virginia’s only remaining for-profit prison, now also ...
ABA’s Private Prisons Prophecy Comes to Pass by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Prison populations exploded in every state across the country during the 1980s and ‘90s. It was during ...
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Report Highlights Force Feeding of Hunger Striking Asylum Seekers by ICE and GEO by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regardless of what people without first-hand knowledge of prisons or detention centers believe, prisoners are generally not the blood-thirsty, brutal animals depicted in the media. In fact, especially in the face …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
this year, the state passed a bill banning private prisons, and other bills like it have been passed in California and elsewhere. The work program at the Northwest ICE Processing Center has since been halted ...
Brief • November 4, 2021
State of WA v GEO Group, WA, Amended Civil Judgment, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05806-RJB Document 633 Filed 11/04/21 Page 1 of 1 1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 5 6 STATE OF WASHINGTON, 7 Plaintiff, 8 THE GEO …
Brief • October 29, 2021
State of WA v. GEO Group, WA, Jury Verdict 2, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05769-RJB Document 519 Filed 10/29/21 Page 1 of 1
Brief • October 27, 2021
State of WA v. GEO Group, WA, Jury Verdict 1, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05769-RJB Document 508 Filed 10/27/21 Page 1 of 1
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
, disclosed that it allowed Boca Raton private prison contractor The GEO Group to get away with making hundreds of thousands of dollars of otherwise illegal contributions to Super PACs. The Federal Election ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Seven Former GEO Employees Plead Guilty in Federal Texas Private Jail Bribery Scheme by On July 6, 2021, Veronica Ortega, 45, a former medical assistant at the GEO-owned and -operated East Hidalgo Detention Center pleaded guilty to bribery after admitting she received cash to smuggle marijuana into the jail. She …
EPA Slams GEO Over Disinfectant Use at Private Prison, Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction to Stop It by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Environmental Protection Agency issued ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
US Marshalls Terminate Contract with GEO Snitch Camp at Queens NY Detention Facility by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On March 16, 2021, the Queens Daily Eagle reported that the federal government had declined to renew a contract with for-profit prison contractor GEO Group to operate the Queens Detention Facility …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
’t take place at “well-run, safely staffed prisons.” The Hobbs melee is not the first at a private prison in the state. “Two years ago, at the prison operated by the GEO Group ...
detention beds to house immigration detainees. 17% of ICE detainees are held in USMS-contracted facilities. ICE may also contract directly with a private prison company such as CoreCivic, GEO Group ...
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
Washington State Governor Signs Bill Banning Private Prisons Statewide by Juliette LaMarr by Juliette LaMarr Washington Governor Jay Inslee in April 2021 signed House Bill 1090, which bans ...
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Ransomware Attack on GEO Group Exposes Sensitive Information by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 3, 2020, the GEO Group, one of the largest private prison companies in the nation ...
contracts with several private for-profit prison operators 26 including GEO, CoreCivic, Inc. (“CoreCivic”), and Management and Training Corporation 27 (MTC). (Id. ¶ 37.) CoreCivic, GEO and MTC ...
, Presente.org, Real Money Moves, Make the Road New York, CREDO, Little Sis, and ICCR organized over 500 in-person actions and 600,000 petitions nationwide calling for an end to private prison financing. After ...
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