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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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, 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 ...
) and their private prison contractor, the GEO Group, for their lies to the court and “abominable performance” in protecting immigrant detainees from COVID-19 at the Mesa Verde Detention Center near ...
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
as the sole defendant. According to the complaint, as early as 2009 McDermott began alerting NMCD officials to problems with its contracted health-care provider — Corizon (then known as CMS) &mdash ...
Publication • February 1, 2021
Wexford Health Sources, Inc., Medical Guidelines – Region: Jails, 2021 Medical Guidelines Region: Jails Wexford Health Sources, Inc. 501 Holiday Drive Sulte300 Pittsburgh, PA 15220 Phone: 412-937-8590 Medical Guidelines Region: Jails Corporate Authorization This Medical Guidelines has been reviewed and approved by the following individual(s): Chief Medical Officer, Wexford Health …
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;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 ...
leading health-care contractors — Corizon, Wellpath Holdings Inc., NaphCare, PrimeCare Medical Inc. and Armor Correctional Health Services Inc. — death rates ran anywhere from 18% to 58% higher ...
CoreCivic and Securus Technologies Agree to Pay $3.7 Million to Settle Suit for Illegally Recording Attorney-Client Conversations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 31, 2020, a motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri revealing that CoreCivic and Securus Technologies (Defendants) had …
Brief • December 29, 2020
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Jager v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, 2020 Centurion 003046 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT ...
Brief • December 15, 2020
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Folsom v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Amended Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2020 Centurion 001818 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 12/15/2020 ...
Brief • December 14, 2020
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Varela v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2020 Centurion 003234 RELEASE lN FU LL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE [N ...
Brief • December 3, 2020
Deherrera v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2020 Centurion 001769 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 12 ...
Rivas v. Jennings, CA, Order, COVID Negligence, 2020 Case 3:20-cv-02731-VC Document 867 Filed 12/03/20 Page 1 of 26 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ANGEL DE JESUS ZEPEDA RIVAS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DAVID JENNINGS, et al., Case No. 20-cv-02731-VC ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR SECOND PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION Re: …
Article • December 1, 2020
$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract by Corizon Health paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it beached a contract with Nursefinders. The February 26, 2016, settlement ...
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
NBA Owner Capitalizes on Mass Incarceration; Players Silent by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Members of National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) maintained their place at the forefront of the movement for racial justice even while encapsulated in the National Basketball Association (NBA) bubble during the 2020 championship playoffs. The basketball …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
by sheriff’s deputies and a jail nurse, Michelle Heughins, an employee of the jail’s for-profit health-care provider, Wellpath, formerly known as Correct Care Solutions. Over the next 45 minutes ...
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Federal Judge Approves $25 Million Class Action Settlement Against Global Tel*Link by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On October 22, 2020, New Jersey federal district court Judge William J. Martini ended a seven-year class action brought by New Jersey Department of Correction (DOC) prisoners complaining of excessive phone fees levied …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
, news broke in March 2020 that Louisiana-based private prison firm LaSalle Management Company had settled for $177,500 a lawsuit over a 2016 incident in which five prisoners were pepper-sprayed while ...
California Passes Bill Allowing ICE Detainees to Sue Private Contractors by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 3228 (AB 3228) September 27, 2020 ...
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Privatized Food Service Problems at Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A recent audit at an Allegheny county jail revealed a series of shortcomings by a food service contractor tasked with providing meals to prisoners. Florida-based contractor Trinity Services Group was paid $3.5 million to provide …
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