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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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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 ...
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Filed under: JPay, Inc., Money/Property
JPay Vulnerability Exploited by Idaho Prisoners for $225,000 in Credits by Steve Horn by Steve Horn In the realm of prisons and jails, many companies have positioned themselves to profit from mass incarceration. Few have done so in the area of prisoner communications with as much vigor as JPay, whose …
of Georgia accuses private prison behemoth CoreCivic – formerly Corrections Corporation of America – of exploiting immigrant detainees who perform work in the company’s ICE detention ...
, Washington was one of the first jurisdictions to ban privately-operated facilities; the county passed legislation in August 2017 that prohibits contracts between the county and private prison firms to house ...
Texas Towns with Private Prisons Experience Job Losses by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke Over a decade ago, with the promise of cost savings as well as stable jobs for the community, local ...
Article • August 6, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Lawsuit Against Private Prison Firm Over Prisoner’s Death at Texarkana Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke The family of a prisoner who died at the Bi-State Jail in Texarkana has filed ...
) and ​Management & Training Corporation (MTC) spent at least $812,500 to lobby federal officials during the first quarter of 2018. And they’ve hired a cast of lobbyists who have passed through ...
Article • August 4, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
and food services. In the latter regard, Aramark Correctional Services and Florida-based Trinity Services Group are the two largest players in the privatized prison and jail food industry. Other companies ...
, they notified Correctional Medical Care (CMC), the jail’s for-profit health care provider, and took him to the infirmary. There, a CMC nurse gave Cannon Gatorade and returned him to his cell. Jail video ...
, which houses female ICE detainees. That facility is operated by private prison company CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corp. of America). It was also the site of a November 2017 complaint filed by Laura ...
unable to participate in programs offered to non-disabled prisoners in the general publication. Jewett also sued the jail’s private health care provider, the California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG ...
On Sale Now: Prison Labor by Sytonia Reid by Sytonia Reid, Green American Magazine Every day, incarcerated and detained people in both US government and private prisons perform labor during ...
prison operated at the time by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a private prison company now known as CoreCivic, agreed to settle with a prisoner who was denied kosher meals required by his ...
;  Winn Correctional Center is a private prison operated at the time by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a private prison company now known as CoreCivic. While at Winn, Ellerbe maintained ...
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
;in three separate incidents at the Cotton facility, where prisoners also complained about “crunchy dirt” in potatoes. [See: PLN, Feb. 2017, p.48]. After switching in 2015 from Aramark, another ...
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Idaho DOC and Corizon Held in Contempt in Long-standing Lawsuit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) and its contracted private medical care provider ...
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Marques Davis filed suit in federal district court in October 2017, alleging that officials at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility and the prison’s for-profit medical care provider, Corizon Health ...
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