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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 • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Study Finds More Private Prisons Result in Judges Imposing Slightly Longer Sentences by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  In a report published on March 24, 2019, researchers from Columbia ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
General Sally Q. Yates directed the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to phase out private prison contracts – a directive later reversed by the Trump administration. [See: PLN, Oct. 2018, p.30; Oct ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
New Mexico Riot Raises Questions About Private Prison Company’s Competence by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The police department in Clayton, New Mexico and the state police ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
of Prison Legal News, prevailed in a lawsuit seeking to force private prison contractor GEO Group to comply with Vermont’s public records law.  The complaint, filed in a Vermont Superior Court ...
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Publication • June 28, 2019
Filed under: Correct Care Solutions
Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Wellpath, 2019 ~ -~c~J;--:;;2~0~19;;;:--_o=-=o:c--=o-=-s 3=--c3=-----------. . 1 COMMISSIONERS' JOURNAL COOS COUNTY, OREGON Coos County Filing Cover Sheet 06/28/2019 4:05:00 PM · TO: · Coos County Clerk's Office FROM: Sheriff's Office Please file the attached ·document in the selected category indicated in the box …
J.V. V. GEO Group, NM, Amended Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2019 Case 1:19-cv-00559-WJ-SCY Document 2 Filed 06/27/19 Page 1 of 23 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO J.V. Plaintiff, vs. Case No.: 1:19-CV-00559-WJ-SCY THE GEO GROUP, INC., WARDEN MARK BOWEN, and WILLIAM ALLEN, JURY TRIAL …
Jackson v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2019 Case: 1:15-cv-02665 Document #: 137 Filed: 06/27/19 Page 1 of 16 PageID #:608 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION KEVIN JACKSON, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. WEXFORD …
for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS")), whether known or unknown, which may hereafter be made or brought by Releasor or any other pm1y or entity against Releasees as a result of any damages, attorneys' fees ...
Hollingsworth v. IDOC, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2019 .GENERAL RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMSAND CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT Attero Hollingsworth, (the "Releasor"), and - n d Wexford Health Sources, Inc. ("Wexford") (each a "Party" and collectively the "Parties,,), on behalf of themselves and their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, agree as follows: 1.0. …
and Medicaid Services 3 (hereinafter "CMS"). Released Parties and their insurers reserve the right to disclose such information as they deem necessary in the course of any subsequent lawsuit or legal ...
. Matthews also sought to add Wexford Health Services as a defendant in a new count based on a respondeat superior theory of liability. On October 31, 2018, Matthews's motion for appointed counsel was granted ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Over $980,000 in Damages, Fees Awarded in Deliberate Indifference Case Against Wexford by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Private prison medical care firm Wexford Health Sources, Inc. filed ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
Pennsylvania Town Rejects Private Prison Firm by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regular readers of Prison Legal News are well aware of the abysmal reputations that private, for-profit prisons have ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Corizon Settles Lawsuit Over Colorado Jail Prisoner’s Death for $3.7 Million; County Pays Another $200,000 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A lawsuit over the 2015 death of Adams County ...
Class Action Challenges Theft of Millions of Digital Music Files from Florida Prisoners by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A class-action lawsuit accuses the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) of confiscating prisoners’ “lawfully purchased property without compensation” so the department and its vendor, JPay, could realize profit through …
-trial detainee Pedro Sanchez, Jr. has survived a motion to dismiss filed by the county jail’s medical provider, Correct Care Solutions (now known as Wellpath), and several of the company’s ...
Article • June 4, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons
that was supposed to be secure. Clarke said there had been an “abject failure” by the private prison operator. Rory Stewart, Minister for Prisons, added, “It has become clear that drastic action ...
Article • June 4, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Itself The lawsuits in Texas and Vermont mirror other, successful cases previously filed in those same states by HRDC against another private prison firm. In one of those suits, HRDC sought public records ...
Brief • 2019
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Marler v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Amended Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2019 Centurion 001005 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF COLFAX EIGHTH JUDICIAL ...
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