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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 • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
. Suspecting infection, the nurse spoke to Dr. Vipin Shah, who worked for the prison’s medical contractor, Wexford Health Services, Inc. Shah prescribed penicillin by mouth twice a day for five days ...
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
for the Third Circuit reinstated some of the claims brought by a couple seeking permission to marry, one of whom is an immigration detainee being held in a private prison operated by GEO, under contract ...
Whistleblower Claims Female Detainees at Privately Run Georgia ICE Facility Had Forced Hysterectomies by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A whistleblower at a privately operated federal detention center in Georgia prompted a joint complaint filed in September 2020 with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of …
Brief • November 25, 2020
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Aranzola v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2020 Centurion 001721 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 11/25/2020 12:37 ...
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Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
$70,000 Settlement in Private Firm’s Failure to Treat Arizona Prisoner’s Broken Wrist by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Corizon Health, Inc. agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a civil rights ...
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Private Prisons, COVID-19
Two-Thirds of Nevada Prisoners Confined in Arizona Private Prison Test Positive for COVID-19 by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson "We said since day one, prisons, especially private prisons shielded ...
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
, spawning a number of wrongful death lawsuits that claimed rampant understaffing had created a dangerous environment for prisoners and guards. In 2008, Community Education Centers (CEC) took over the GWH ...
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Private Prisons, Lobbying
Private Prison Industry Ramped Up Campaign Contributions, Favoring Republicans by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The volatile 2020 presidential election campaign led private prison operators ...
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Corizon
Investment Firm Buys Corizon by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 30, 2020, Flacks Group, a Miami-based global investment firm, announced that it had purchased Brentwood, Tennessee-based ...
Article • October 29, 2020
, Florida, Police Department went to her home to question Woycenko, as well as her son, and her boyfriend. They made a decision to involuntarily commit her via Baker Act to New Horizons of the Treasure Coast ...
Article • October 27, 2020
Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Family
$21,000 Settlement in Suit Alleging Violations of Family Medical Leave Act and Pregnancy Discrimination Act by Corizon Health, Inc., agreed to pay $21,000 to settle a federal lawsuit ...
Suarez v. GEO Group, NM, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2020 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ("Agreement") is enteted into by Osvaldo Suatez, DOB 02/15/1983, SSN 429 .. 53~4354 ("Plaintiff' or "Releasor") and The GEO Group; Inc,, (hereinafter "GEO" or "Releasee" or "Defendant"). ''GEO," "Releasee" and …
Brief • October 21, 2020
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Suarez v. The Geo Group, Inc., et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2020 Centurion 003207 1u,:1.1 '.ASt1: IN H ll.1 1 ANI> Sft:'l''l'Ll•:Ml•~NT AGIU~EM 11:N'l' 1 TIIIS 1i 111,1 ...
Brief • October 16, 2020
, Defendant Birnbaum resides in New Mexico and was an employee or agent of Corizon Health, 5 Centurion 001574 Centurion 001575 Inc. and/or Corizon, LLC (f/k/a Corizon, Inc.) (collectively “Corizon entities ...
Article • October 5, 2020
PrimeCare, Berks County Prisoner Who Loses Leg Agree to $850,000 Settlement by PrimeCare Medical agreed to an $850,000 settlement in a civil rights action alleging it failed to provide care ...
Article • October 4, 2020
$37,500 Settlement in Discrimination Suit Against Corizon Health by Corizon Health agreed to pay $37,500 to a former employee who alleged she was discriminated against based on race ...
$350,000 Settlement in Florida Detainee’s Suicide by Corizon Health agreed to pay $350,000 in a lawsuit that alleged it failed to provide mental health care to a pretrial detainee who ...
Article • October 4, 2020
$47,000 Settlement in Detainee’s Overdose Death Claim by Corizon Health agreed to pay $47,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it negligently failed to assure street drugs did not enter its Jail ...
$50,000 Settlement with Corizon in Failure to Treat Suit in Florida by Corizon Health agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it failed to provide a Florida prisoner ...
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