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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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Details Vague on Spending from San Diego Jail Detainee Welfare Fund by The commissary operated in San Diego County jails collected enough revenue from detainee purchases to pump up the balance in its Incarcerated Persons’ Welfare Fund (IPWF) to $11.1 million by June 30, 2024. But the office of Sheriff …
of a private prison transport driver for violating the civil rights of detainees. Anthony Buntyn, 56, a former driver for private prison transport firm Prisoner Transportation Services (PTS) of America ...
release from prison. On November 3, 2022, Centurion settled the case for $75,000. Unusually, the settlement agreement specifically did not resolve claims against individual NMCD defendants or private prison ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
for the Middle District of Tennessee of violating his First Amendment rights with a gag order that was issued in a case he was litigating against private prison giant CoreCivic. As PLN reported, the Court’s ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
GEO Group Just Wants to Be a Landlord for Oklahoma DOC by In June 2024, after Oklahoma failed to meet a $3 million pay hike demanded by The GEO Group, Inc., the private prison operator gave ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
MTC Shuts Down Texas Jail by On September 30, 2024, Utah-based Management & Training Corp. (MTC) ended its contract to operate the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility in Garza County, Texas. The lockup is owned by the county, which confirmed that most of some 170 employees were out of work. …
,” the Court opined. Instead it found that the Court of Appeals also provided guidance in a similar case against Corizon Health, Centurion’s predecessor in providing NMCD healthcare. Quoting N.M ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
In Failure-to-Treat Claims, Wellpath Denied Dismissal in Virginia, Settles in Pennsylvania by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 11, 2024, private prison and jail healthcare ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
;   Additional sources: Jacksonville Tributary, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Corizon, Settlements, Bankruptcy
Corizon Health Bankruptcy Settlement Grows, But Only by $21 Million by Under the terms of a settlement announced in the bankruptcy of former prison medical contractor Corizon Health on July ...
private prison and jail medical contractor Wellpath, LLC for destroying evidence in a suit filed over a detainee death at the Josephine County Jail (JCJ). It was the second time in just over a year ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
a contract in July 2024 with YesCare, despite the bankruptcy of its predecessor, Corizon Health, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Oct. 2024, p.60.]   Additional source: Baltimore Banner ...
Court Strikes Washington Statute to Regulate GEO Group’s Notorious ICE Lockup by The Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, Washington, owned by private prison giant The GEO ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Prisons
unequal bargaining power, where the agency isn’t really able to meaningfully enforce whatever standards the private prison may have agreed to,” said David Fathi, director of the American Civil ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Contractors
Maryland Extends Contract with YesCare Despite Bankruptcy of Predecessor Corizon Health by For-profit prison healthcare contractor Corizon Health had a sordid reputation even before ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Colorado Prisoner Forces Correctional Health Partners to Treat His Colon Disease by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After winning a temporary restraining order (TRO) directing the medical contractor for the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) to treat his colon disease, state prisoner Arthur Burnham’s location was unknown on September 10, …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Prisons
in America— by combining Correct Care, Correctional Medical Group Companies and California Forensic Medical Group. HIG also controls TKC Holdings, which operates Trinity Service Group and Keefe Group ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Advanced Correctional Healthcare Ends Two Suits Over Deaths at Ohio Jail by Private jail medical providers usually win contracts with promises to save a county money. But after two federal lawsuits filed in federal court for the Northern District of Ohio in 2023 against Ohio’s Richland County and its privately …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
). The parties notified the district court that they had reached a settlement on August 9, 2024, but as with many settlements involving private contractors, details remain secret. Buchanan is represented by Tulsa ...
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