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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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Privatized Prison Medical Care in Mississippi Still Problematic

Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009

Filed under: Wexford Health Services, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Privatized Prison Medical Care in Mississippi Still Problematic by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Anyone looking for evidence that privatized prison health care is a complete failure need ...

Sexual Abuse by Prison and Jail Staff Proves Persistent, Pandemic

Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cornell Corrections, GRW Corp., Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution

and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a private prison operated by GRW Corp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit ...

Privatized Medical Care in Mississippi Prisons: Another Wexford Failure

Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008

Filed under: Wexford Health Services, Reviews, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect

Review (PEER). It found that MDOC and its for-profit healthcare contractor, Wexford Health Services, failed to assure that prisoners received timely access to quality medical care. PEER stated ...

Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues

Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Correctional Services Corp., Jail Misconduct, Judicial Misconduct, Prison Labor, OB/GYN, Criminal Prosecution, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Damages, Disclosure of Records, Telephone Access, Suicides, ACA

Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues by Bob Williams “The house always wins,” Warden Don Cabana proclaimed to the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper, in July 2007. However, Harrison County, home of the Harrison County Adult Detention Center (ADC), has agreed to pay …

Cleaning up Mississippi’s Supermax: Conditions Suit Settled

Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007

Filed under: CMS, Medical, Contagious Disease -- Misc., Exercise, Sewage, Sanitation, Reading Materials, Vermin, Restraints, Telephone Rates, Ad-Seg Hearings, ACA

Medical Services (CMS). While the mentally ill are hidden behind steel doors, those with medical conditions are often transferred off to private prison or have to be taken to the hospital because ...

Fifth Circuit Upholds $5,000 Excessive Force Verdict Against Wackenhut Guard

Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005

Filed under: Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Guard Brutality/Beatings, New Trial Motions

Fifth Circuit Upholds $5,000 Excessive Force Verdict Against Wackenhut Guard by In an unpublished opinion, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict finding that a prison guard used excessive force against a prisoner and awarding $5,000 in damages. Mississippi prisoner Thomas Unger sued Wackenhut (now Geo Corporation), …

Overcrowding Forces Alabama Prisoners Into Private Prison Web

Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Louisiana Correctional Services, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Staff-Staff Harassment, Contractor Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Totality of Conditions, Overcrowding, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Employee Litigation

eight months after they arrived, all Idaho prisoners were removed and no attempt was ever made to send more. SLCC is run by Louisiana Correctional Services (LCS) Inc. LCS was founded 13 years ago ...

Mississippi Pays $6 Million for Empty Prison Bunks

Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Financing, State Legislation

passed a budget paying Wackenhut Corporation (WC) and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) millions of dollars for unneeded private prison bunks, despite Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove's attempts ...

Mississippi Taxpayers Fund Welfare Payments to Private Prisons

Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Financing, State Legislation

Mississippi Taxpayers Fund Welfare Payments to Private Prisons by Ronald Young Mississippi Taxpayers Fund Welfare Payments To Private Prisons by Ronald A. Young Mississippi taxpayers ...

CoreCivic Tutwiler Inmate Tccf-handbook

Publication

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

about why an appointment is needed, as it will assist the health services administrator in scheduling the appointment with the correct health services provider. If an inmate falsely claims a medical ...

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