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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 12, 2017
Filed under: Corizon, Medical
was requested, which Corizon’s utilization management denied.  An alternative plan was for the prisoner to see a surgeon, but that had not been requested or completed when the CMA’s report ...
Article • December 11, 2017
Private Prison Profits Drive Increase in Immigrant Detentions by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Although most of the discussion in the past several months has been the continuing decrease ...
determining that the bank finances CoreCivic and GEO Group, the nation’s two largest private prison companies. ABC also alleged that Wells Fargo engaged in unfair lending practices in minority communities ...
Private Prison Company’s Announcement to Reduce Recidivism Criticized as PR Ploy by In October 31, 2017, CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Prisoner’s Escape from Understaffed Private Prison Results in Staff Discipline by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Four guards at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Seventh Circuit: Corizon May be Liable for Failure to Coordinate Medical Care by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 21, 2017, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in an en banc ruling ...
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) and Corizon, the department’s former private medical provider, denied hernia operations to prisoners to save money.  Groin hernias are very common ...
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
in the jail is not only grounded in concerns about basic human rights – it’s also about environmental justice. The 1,500-bed immigration jail, operated by the private prison giant GEO Group, sits ...
did not attempt to defend this use of solitary confinement at the facility, Stewart Detention Center, which is run by private prison contractor CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
detention facility in New Mexico was closed once the bonds were converted to taxable status. Otero County issued $62.3 million in tax-free revenue bonds in 2007 to finance the construction of an Immigration ...
Profiting Off Mass Incarceration: Detroit Pistons Owner Buys Private Prison Phone Company by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar, Truthout The election of Donald Trump has already given ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Private Probation Company Agrees to End Drug Testing Absent Court Order by David Reutter by David Reutter In a preliminary consent order, Sentinel Offender Services, a private probation ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
) awarded a contract to privatize medical care for prisoners. The winning bidder, Prison Health Services, merged in 2011 with Correctional Medical Services to form Corizon Health, which later won renewal ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
County Jail in New York in April 2017, alleging that the facility and its medical contractor, Correctional Medical Care, wrongfully withheld medication that could have prevented his death. The complaint ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Louisiana Corrections Secretary: More Private Prisons Won’t Save Money by Privatizing more prisons will not save Louisiana money now or in the long run, according to the state’s Public ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
$60,000 Settlement in GEO Group Employee’s Sexual Harassment Case by The GEO Group -- one of the nation's largest private prison firms, which is frequently the subject of scandal arising ...
agency within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), issued an audit of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ contract with private prisoner company CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation ...
Florida Lawmaker Visits Prisons, Audits Private Prison Contracts by David Reutter by David Reutter In prison after prison across the state, over a period of two years, Florida state ...
Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
;s for-profit medical contractor, Correct Care Solutions, LLC, is named as a defendant. See: Kincanon v. Randall County, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Tex.), Case No. 2:17-cv-00055-C.    Source ...
Article • September 13, 2017
Dismissal of Ill. Prisoner's Dental Care Lawsuit Affirmed By Seventh Circuit by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On February 15, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decided that a lower court's dismissal of Illinois state prisoner's lawsuit against a private medical contractor and a prison dentist …
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