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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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Pennsylvania Detainee’s Estate Claims Financial Incentive Motive for Denial of Medical Care; $325,000 Settlement

Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015

Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Cardiovascular, Failure to Treat

Incentive Motive for Denial of Medical Care; $325,000 Settlement by David Reutter A Pennsylvania federal district court ordered medical personnel employed by Correctional Medical Care, Inc. (CMC) to face ...

CCA Prison in Ohio Loses BOP Contract

Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut

CCA Prison in Ohio Loses BOP Contract by CCA Prison in Ohio Loses BOP Contract The privately-owned Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NOCC) in Youngstown no longer holds prisoners for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) after the federal agency declined to renew its contract with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). According …

More Jurisdictions Don’t Renew Corizon Contracts – Including Big Loss in New York City

Article • September 24, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Contractor Misconduct, Private Contractors

care. CMA of NY has the same corporate address as Brentwood, Tennessee-based Corizon, and prior to 2012, CDA of NY was registered as PHS Dental Services, Inc. PHS, or Prison Health Services ...

Peer-Review Reports Must be Disclosed in Philadelphia Jail Conditions Suit

Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Corrections Audits, Overcrowding, Discovery, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

A Pennsylvania federal district court held on November 4, 2014 that medical care contractor Corizon Health has to produce mortality and sentinel event reviews in a class-action suit filed by prisoners ...

Peer-Review Reports Must be Disclosed in Philadelphia Jail Conditions Suit

Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

PrimeCare Contract With Montgomery County Correctional Facility 1-8-2012 To1-7-2015

Publication • 2015

Filed under: Primecare Medical

PrimeCare Contract With Montgomery County Correctional Facility 1-8-2012 To1-7-2015 HEALTH SERVICES AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN MONTGOMERY COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AND PRIMECARE MEDICAL, INC. (PCM ...

Tarnoski et al v. County of Berks et al, PA, Complaint, Primecare death medical neglect, 2015

Brief • April 16, 2015

Filed under: Primecare Medical, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

~ Oep.C/ertc 2000 C.A. No. v. COUNTY OF BERKS; PRIMECARE MEDICAL, INC.; JOHN DOE; MARY ROE, Jury Trial Demanded Defendants. COMPLAINT 1. This is a civil rights and wrongful death action under 42 ...

“Damning” Audit Sharply Criticizes Corizon in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Contractor Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors

on any given day. Allegheny Correctional Health Services (ACHS), a nonprofit organization affiliated with the county’s health department, previously provided medical services to prisoners before ...

Crouse v. Allegheny County, PA, Pltff Response to MSJ, Inmate Suicide, 2014

Brief • February 6, 2015

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Correctional Health Services, Correctional Medical Care, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Immunity/Liability, Failure to Train/Supervise, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

Post1 Allegheny Correctional Health Services, Inc. and Allegheny County Health, Inc. are also “County Defendants” but did not join in the Motion for Summary Judgment. Case 2:09-cv-01221-DSC Document 131 ...

When Halfway Houses Pose Full-Time Problems

Article • January 10, 2015 • from PLN January, 2015

Filed under: Classification, Work Release, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Community Education Centers, Contractor Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Escapes, Failure to Protect (General), Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Alternative Sentencing

industry is Community Education Centers (CEC), a New Jersey-based for-profit company that manages jails, prisons and transitional centers throughout the United States. The firm operates six large halfway ...

JPay Fined in Pennsylvania, Michigan for Operating without a License

Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Contractor Misconduct, Money/Property, Trust Accounts, Commissary

agreed to “present and recommend ... approval” of the company’s application for a license. See: In the Matter of JPay, Inc., Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs ...

Williams v City of Philadelphia, PA, Memo Corizon censorship 2014

Brief • November 4, 2014

Filed under: Corizon, Censorship

, Inc.’s Request to not produce mortality and sentinel event reviews requested by Plaintiffs. (ECF No. 122.) For the following reasons, Corizon’s Request will be denied. I. BACKGROUND 1 This is a class ...

Recidivism Performance Measures for Private Halfway Houses in Pennsylvania

Article • September 20, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014

Filed under: Private Prisons, Statistics/Trends, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Release and Reentry

incentives (financial bonuses) and disincentives (potential loss of contracts), private contractors can be motivated to meet specified standards. Future recidivism performance measures by the Pennsylvania DOC ...

PA DOC recidivism performance measures for private halfway houses 2013

Publication • September 16, 2014

Filed under: Private Prisons, Rehabilitation/Recidivism

PA DOC recidivism performance measures for private halfway houses 2013 APPENDIX L Recidivism Monitoring Recidivism Monitoring At a minimum, facilities operated by selected contractors must maintain a baseline rate of recidivism. Facilities reducing recidivism rates below the baseline recidivism range will be eligible to receive a price increase during the …

Kenney v. Montgomery County, CMC Letter Opposing Deposition Questions, Wrongful Death - Medical, 2014

Brief • August 7, 2014

Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Kenney v. Montgomery County, CMC Letter Opposing Deposition Questions, Wrongful Death - Medical, 2014 Case 2:13-cv-02590-EGS Document 57 Filed 08/07/14 Page 1 of 9 Case 2:13-cv-02590-EGS Document 57 Filed 08/07/14 Page 2 of 9 Case 2:13-cv-02590-EGS Document 57 Filed 08/07/14 Page 3 of 9 Case 2:13-cv-02590-EGS Document 57 Filed 08/07/14 …

Temple University letter re private prison study ethics complaint 2014

Publication • July 15, 2014

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

Temple University letter re private prison study ethics complaint 2014 ...

Letter to Corizon from PA Controller 2014

Publication • February 10, 2014

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Corizon, Contractor Misconduct, Private Contractors

Letter to Corizon from PA Controller 2014 ...

Williams v. City of Philadelphia, PA, Plf Supp Medical and Mental Health Discovery Requests, 2013

Brief • December 12, 2013

Filed under: Corizon, Discovery, Censorship

and discharge. 7. Entire patient health records for all inmates who died while in custody from January 2012 to December 1, 2013. 8. Mortality and sentinel event reviews for deaths that occurred in custody ...

Kenney v. Montgomery County, PA, Plaintiff's Interrogatories to Correctional Medical Care Inc - Inmate Medical Care, 2013

Brief • July 19, 2013

Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Medical Records, Disclosure of Records

Kenney v. Montgomery County, PA, Plaintiff's Interrogatories to Correctional Medical Care Inc - Inmate Medical Care, 2013 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA ...

Kenney v. Montgomery County, PN, Interr. to Def. Carrillo, 2013

Brief • July 19, 2013

Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Medical, Medical Records

, as : ADMINISTRATRIX of the ESTATE OF : PATRICIA ANN POLLOCK, : CIVIL ACTION : Plaintiff, : No. 13-2590 : v. : JURY TRIAL DEMANDED : MONTGOMERY COUNTY; : CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL CARE, : INC.; MARGARET CARRILLO, M.D ...

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