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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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, prison health services in Alabama were provided by Correctional Medical Services of St. Louis, at $26 million per year. However, because of rising costs and a rapidly growing prison population, CMS ...
surpasses negligence and constitutes deliberate indifference (citation omitted)); Weeks v. Chaboudy, supra 984 F.2d at 187; Ancata v. Prison Health Services, Inc., 769 F.2d 700, 704 (11th Cir. 1985) (when ...
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
California Prisons Contract-Medical-Care Audit Reveals Millions In Waste by Marvin Mentor At a time when the California Department of Corrections (CDC) is already under intense Legislative criticism for overspending its annual budget by $544.8 million (see: PLN, Aug. 2004, p. 41), an April, 2004 report by the California State Auditor …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
of St. Louis, Wexford Health Services of Pittsburgh, and Prison Health Services of Brentwood, Tennessee. The South Carolina Experience From 1986 to 2000, the SCDC contracted a portion of its ...
CCA Medical Cost-Saving Contract Unconstitutional by A Tennessee federal district judge as found an incentives contract between the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and a private doctor unconstitutional and must be stopped. The contract provided for financial incentives for the physician to reduce costs, which motivated him to reduce medical …
Prison Health Services Refuses to Pay by The U.S. court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a forum selection clause in an indemnity agreement between the Sheriff of Polk Co ...
claiming that jail officials, Westchester county and EMSA Limited Partnership, a for-profit business that provided the jail's medical care, had violated his Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care ...
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