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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 • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
medical condition.  The Lane County Sheriff’s Department operates a jail in Eugene, Oregon, and contracted with Corizon Health to provide medical and mental health care for prisoners.&nbsp ...
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
, creating a network of facilities that are often run by private prison companies. [See: PLN, June 2018, p.44]. However, the legal liability and public criticism faced by counties and cities that participate ...
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
that, in June 2018, JP Morgan Chase Bank (JPMC) underwrote a $159.5 million bond to finance private prison operator CoreCivic’s construction of a 2,432-bed facility in Kansas. JPMC was already the largest ...
. Prison Health Services, Inc., 769 F.2d 700 (11th Cir. 1985). Thus, the Court concluded that this claim against Plummer in his official capacity was really a suit against the County, so it also survived ...
that the county’s private correctional healthcare provider at the time, Corizon Health, had secured three no-bid renewals of its county contract while also donating $110,000 to Ahern’s campaign ...
Article • February 8, 2019
;The Court must place a clear and focused light on what is happening here: the State turned to a private contractor which has been unable to meet the prisoner’s health care needs.” Throughout 2018 ...
Tennessee: Class-Action Suit Against PrivatePrison Over Diabetic Care Can Proceed by In October 2018, a federal district court declined to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that claimed ...
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Protesters Rally Against Private Prison Contractor GEO Group by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Activists protesting President Trump’s immigration policies are also rallying ...
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons
$380,790, mostly to Republican candidates. That was also true of the $114,700 donated by CoreCivic that year. A third private prison firm, Utah-based Management & Training Corporation, gave $62,650 ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Florida Prisoners Get Tablets, Lose $11.3 Million in Digital Music by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In 2011, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) entered into a contract with Access Corrections that allowed prisoners to purchase MP3 players which could be hooked up to a kiosk for music …
Article • January 9, 2019
Prison Work Programs: “Cost-Effective Labor Pool” or “Slave Labor of Yesterday”? by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis According to a 2017 survey by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), of the more than 2.2 million people incarcerated in state and federal prisons and local jails across the United States, 61 percent …
Class-Action Suit Against CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Allowed to Proceed by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A lawsuit alleging that private prison operator CoreCivic violated ...
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
the county jail system’s healthcare contractor, Miami-based Armor Correctional Health Services, never reached the staffing threshold needed to adequately treat and care for the 2,100 prisoners held ...
Shareholder Resolutions Would Stop Private Prison Firms from Housing Separated Immigrant Families by In November 2018, shareholder resolutions were filed with CoreCivic, formerly known ...
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Thurgood Marshall, Jr.’s Controversial Position on Board of Private Prison Firm by Steve Horn by Steve Horn He’s the descendant of a slave and the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice ...
Article • December 26, 2018
GEO Denied Summary Judgment in Suit Alleging Immigrants Are Employees Under Washington Labor Law by A Washington state federal district court held the GEO Group was not entitled to intergovernmental immunity in a lawsuit alleging it violates the Washington Minimum Wage Act (MWA) at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). The …
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 ...
Article • December 13, 2018
;    Pulling the curtain, the Truth Behind For-Profit Prisons The merits of for-profit prisons (private prisons) are often discussed with regard to differential costs, liability, level ...
Florida Private Prisons Seek $4 Million for Employee Raises by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a show of continued support for privately-operated prisons, the Florida legislature ...
Florida: Suit Continues Against CoreCivic for Rape of Developmentally Disabled Child by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin In November 2017, a U.S. District Court judge set a February 2019 trial date in a civil suit to resolve allegations that CoreCivic – formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America – failed …
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