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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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Steep Cost for Sending Hawaii Prisoners to Mainland Facilities by Hawaii has long been considered a tropical paradise, but those who run afoul of the law on the islands stand a good chance of being exiled. Over a third of Hawaii’s prisoners are shipped to a privately-operated facility in Arizona …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: JPay, Inc.
have received notification from JPay of the proposed settlement with instructions for filing a claim form or opting-out of the case. See: Salim v. JPay, Inc., U.S.D.C. (E.D. Tex.), Case No. 4:18-cv-00730 ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Former Florida Senator Now Employed by Private Prison Company He Helped While in the State Senate by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss After Florida Senate President Joe Negron stepped down ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons
Should Private Companies Exploit Prisoners Through Exclusive Government Contracts? by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A recent article in the journal Criminology & Public Policy posed the question of whether private, for-profit companies should be allowed to contract with government agencies to be the sole provider of criminal justice-related services, …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Lawsuit Proceeds Over Death of Prisoner at Privately-Run Jail by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Michael Todd Sabbie, 35, died on July 22, 2015 at the Bi-State Jail, which sits astraddle the border between Texas and Arkansas. He left behind four children. U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven, in a 169-page …
facilities prior to his release in 1999 and is now an expert on the private prison industry. “CoreCivic – and the Tennessee Department of Correction, which monitors the state’s private prison ...
Thompson v. Wexford, IL, Merit Review, Inadequate Health Care, 2019 Case 3:19-cv-00288-SMY Document 7 Filed 08/06/19 Page 1 of 11 Page ID #112 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS DENNIS THOMPSON, # B67474, Plaintiff, vs. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., JACQUELINE LASHBROO~ MOHAMMED SIDDIQUI, AND …
Jones v. Wexford, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2019 (1) SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS This Settlement Agreement and General Release ("Agreement") is made and entered into by and between the Plaintiff Benny Jones, (hereinafter referred to as "Plaintiff'), and Defendant Wexford Health Sources, Inc. ("Wexford"). The Plaintiff …
Publication • August 1, 2019
of Corrections, hereinafter referred to as “Department,” and JPay, Inc., hereinafter referred to as the “Contractor,” for the purpose of amending the above-referenced Contract, heretofore entered into between ...
of Plaintiff’s medical need and have and continue to fail to properly provide the necessary and correct medical care and are therefore deliberately indifferent to Plaintiff’s serious medical need. 59. Defendants ...
Services (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 proceeding arising out ...
an expert on the private prison industry. “CoreCivic – and the Tennessee Department of Correction, which monitors the state’s private prison contracts – need to explain ...
Publication • July 10, 2019
Congressional Committee on Oversight and Reform - CoreCivic re Detention Contractors, 2019 Responding to Oversight Committee Document Requests 1. In complying with this request, produce all responsive documents that are in your possession, custody, or control, whether held by you or your past or present agents, employees, and representatives acting …
Brief • July 8, 2019
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Varela v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2019 T • ' . Centurion 000995 FILED I 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 7/8 ...
Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Motions to Dismiss by Corizon and Wexford Denied in Lawsuit Over Florida Prisoner’s Double Leg Amputation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On December 14, 2018, a federal district court ...
Montana Parolee Sues CoreCivic Over Prison Assault, Brain Injury by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A former prisoner at the Crossroads Correctional Center near Shelby, Montana is suing the facility’s private operator, CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) and its contract medical provider, alleging staff allowed another prisoner to assault him …
$3 Million Settlement Where Prison Doctor Failed to Treat Disabled Illinois Prisoner by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Mario Ramirez is disabled, more so now than when he was incarcerated at the Graham Correctional Center in Illinois. The facility contracted with Wexford Health Sources, owned by The Bantry Group Corp., …
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 ...
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