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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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Companies, ConMed, Physicians Network Association and the mental health care subsidiary of private prison company GEO Group. According to October 2018 news reports, CCS has been named as a defendant ...
Center in Texas. The 550-bed facility is operated by private prison firm GEO Group. Denise Tyler, founder of the Idaho Inmate Family Support Group, said her organization has received dozens of letters from ...
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Lawsuit by Washington AG Against GEO Group for Wage Violations Proceeds, Granted Class-Action Status by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In December 2017, a federal judge denied a motion by GEO Group, the private operator of the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, to dismiss a lawsuit filed by …
Florida District Court Allows Suit Against Prisoner Transport Companies to Proceed by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell On July 30, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District ...
not comment on his lawsuit. PLN has previously reported on private prison medical contractors such as Centurion, Corizon, Wexford, Armor Correctional Health Services, Correct Care Solutions and NaphCare ...
Correctional Facility (GWHCF) in Thornton, Pennsylvania, operated at the time by private prison company Community Education Centers. When she was in her late twenties, Janene Wallace was diagnosed with mental ...
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Aramark Gets Pennsylvania DOC Food Procurement Contract by In early 2017, Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections (PDOC) entered into an “innovative” agreement ...
CCS Seeks to Hide Internal Review in Jail Detainee’s Death; $180,000 Settlement by David Reutter, R. Bailey by David Reutter and R. Bailey Correct Care Solutions, a for-profit company ...
health care company Corizon Health to oversee all medical, mental and dental care at 10 state prisons. However, that care has come under scrutiny in federal court. In 2015, prisoners settled a lawsuit ...
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Kentucky Reluctantly Returns to Prison Privatization by Overcrowding in Kentucky’s corrections system has spurred renewed interest in private prisons. Despite abandoning privately ...
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Private Prison Company Pays to Play; Federal Election Commission Fails to Act by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison ...
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
service giant Aramark, that contains a quesadilla, soda and 10 packs of ramen noodles. Other examples of gift packs include: • “Hugs and Love.” This pre-assembled package is advertised ...
CoreCivic’s Actions Against Sexual Harassment Compel Reversal of Jury Verdict by David Reutter by David Reutter  The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Georgia federal district court’s grant of judgment of law for Corrections Corporation of America, now known as CoreCivic, in a lawsuit alleging it failed to take …
Correct Care Solutions also was named as a defendant in the case, as well as one of the company’s employees, Dr. David Birnbaum, who reached a separate, confidential settlement in April 2018. See ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
, finding it was “not in the best interests of the Estate of Morgan Angerbauer.” The case remains pending in federal court. See: Houser v. LaSalle Management Company, LLC, U.S.D.C. (E.D. Texas ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Private Prison Operator Emerald Corrections Out of Business by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Louisiana-based Emerald Correctional Management, also known as Emerald Corrections, was once among ...
into a “tiered” treatment program, in which participants start out in a “total confinement facility” at twice the cost of the original program. The state awarded Correct Care Solutions ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Dozens of Lawsuits Against Correct Care Solutions for Sometimes Fatal Denial of Medical Treatment by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke From 2014 through July 2018, at least 52 lawsuits were ...
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 …
filed a federal civil rights suit arguing political contributions made by private prison firms to state officials led to contracts with those companies that included a 98 percent occupancy rate at private ...
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