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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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medical care is unlikely to be any different. On January 1, 2009, another private prison company, Community Education Centers (CEC), took over GEO’s contract to operate GHCF in Delaware County. While ...
Private Prison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths by Private Prison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths by Matt Clarke The private prison ...
Report Criticizes Conditions in U.S. Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington by David Reutter Report Criticizes Conditions in U.S. Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington by David M. Reutter Conditions at the federal immigration center in Tacoma, Washington, are substandard and not in compliance with national standards, “much less international …
that house more than 2000 prisoners and was not brought under control until the afternoon of February 1. GEO Group, Inc., the private prison company that operates RCDC, reports that no injuries occurred during ...
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
, was employed as a financial analyst for GEO’s mergers and acquisitions group. It is through these sources that Zachariah learned that GEO was about to acquire Correctional Services Corp., (CSC) a Florida company ...
-year lease agreement. In 2005, CCA made a similar proposal to the leaders of Richmond, Virginia. Even private prison companies, which can serve as vehicles for back-door prison financing, are themselves ...
to for-profit private prison firms such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) and Cornell Corrections, while at the same time provided those companies with a safety net ...
Correctional Services Corp. (later acquired by GEO Group) after a juvenile offender died as a result of gross medical neglect. What is most amazing is that for years the state has failed to monitor the private ...
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
private prisons as its business model. It is now finding a more lucrative niche in privatizing mental health facilities and civil commitment centers for sexual predators. The company has been able ...
was to immediately cancel the state’s contract with GEO Group, Inc., the private prison contractor that operated the facility. GEO (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) had run the center since it opened in 1994. Over ...
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Defunct Louisiana Juvenile Private Prison Reactivated by GEO for Immigrants by A Jena, Louisiana private prison with a troubled past will experience rebirth as an immigrant detention center ...
Federal Prisons Not Subject to ADA by The hearing-impaired plaintiff complained of his treatment in a Wackenhut facility while awaiting deportation. Since he has now been deported, his claim about conditions is moot, and the court lacks jurisdiction to overturn his deportation even though he says he elected not to …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
Corrections Institute, which opposes prison privatization. He added that the relative number of incidents such as escapes, riots and abuse of prisoners by guards is higher at private prisons than in government ...
Egurido v. Geo Group Inc., NY, Complaint, Guard Brutality, 2008 08 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK .J i) REX EGURIDO. r AP? 11lainliff, 1388 • ZOO~ .~OMI'LAINT BR:OOl<lYN OFFICE: Index No. -agaillst- THE GEO GROUP,INC., WILLIAM ZERILLO, "JOliN" WALL, "JANE" MARK, "JANE" ANDREWS, and .101 IN …
Brief • March 28, 2008
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Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
Bivens Action Inapplicable to Private Prison Employees by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that individual employees of a privately-operated prison are not subject to Eighth ...
No Criminal Wrongdoing Found in Overpayments to Florida Private Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In May 2007 the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) issued a 22-page ...
PrimeCare Medical, Inc., a for-profit firm, to provide jail healthcare services. In Northampton County alone, 16 prisoner lawsuits were filed between 1999 and 2005 alleging lack of care by PrimeCare ...
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Texas GEO Prison Squalor Drives Idaho Prisoner to Suicide by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Seven months after arriving at the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC), a private prison ...
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