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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 • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Protesters Rally Against Private Prison Contractor GEO Group by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Activists protesting President Trump’s immigration policies are also rallying ...
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons
$380,790, mostly to Republican candidates. That was also true of the $114,700 donated by CoreCivic that year. A third private prison firm, Utah-based Management & Training Corporation, gave $62,650 ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Florida Prisoners Get Tablets, Lose $11.3 Million in Digital Music by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In 2011, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) entered into a contract with Access Corrections that allowed prisoners to purchase MP3 players which could be hooked up to a kiosk for music …
Harvey v. Duncan, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2019 GENERAL RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS In full and complete consideration of the payment by Coverys Specialty Insurance Company of the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00), the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, I, Bryant Harvey, Jr. (the …
Document#: 14 Filed: 01/28/19 Page 2 of 22 PagelD #:83 SHERIFF'S OFFICE, AND ARMOR CORRECTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC., states as follows: Introduction l. Adam Gill was permanently disabled in a Lake ...
Brief • January 25, 2019
Montoya v. Corizon Health, Inc., et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2019 Centurion 003125 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ., -A THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEM ...
Brief • January 25, 2019
Beard v. Obaisi, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2019 FULL AND FINAL RELEASE For the sole and only consideration of SEVENTY THOUSAND AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($70,000.00) (hereinafter usettlement amount"), paid by on behalf of WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, I, DONALD E. BEARD, …
Publication • January 21, 2019
Corrections Corp.) has been rightly criticized for over-estimating the political strength of the private prison lobby (in terms of influencing substantive criminal justice policy), while ignoring the dominant ...
, attorneys, insurers or the Internal Revenue Service. The parties may disclose the terms of this Agreement as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (hereinafter "CMS"). Released Parties ...
Article • January 9, 2019
Prison Work Programs: “Cost-Effective Labor Pool” or “Slave Labor of Yesterday”? by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis According to a 2017 survey by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), of the more than 2.2 million people incarcerated in state and federal prisons and local jails across the United States, 61 percent …
Class-Action Suit Against CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Allowed to Proceed by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A lawsuit alleging that private prison operator CoreCivic violated ...
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
the county jail system’s healthcare contractor, Miami-based Armor Correctional Health Services, never reached the staffing threshold needed to adequately treat and care for the 2,100 prisoners held ...
Shareholder Resolutions Would Stop Private Prison Firms from Housing Separated Immigrant Families by In November 2018, shareholder resolutions were filed with CoreCivic, formerly known ...
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Thurgood Marshall, Jr.’s Controversial Position on Board of Private Prison Firm by Steve Horn by Steve Horn He’s the descendant of a slave and the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice ...
Brief • January 7, 2019
Filed under: Centurion
Harlan v. Corizon Health, Inc., et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2019 Centurion 003033 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ...
and that Plaintiff likely suffered a malignant melanoma. 14. On March 28, 2018, Plaintiff underwent a surgical procedure (wide excision melanoma with left posterolateral neck biopsy and sentinel nod~ biopsies ...
Proposed By Chicago Access Corporation. ......................................... 4 A. The Actions of Private Contractors Performing Correctional Functions Are Fairly Attributable to The State ...
Publication • January 2, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons, Pensions
, the Milwaukee County Jail in Wisconsin hired a private company, Armor Correctional Health Services, to provide health services at the jail, replacing the unionized registered nurses, members of the Wisconsin ...
Publication • January 1, 2019
, Department 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 ...
Article • December 26, 2018
GEO Denied Summary Judgment in Suit Alleging Immigrants Are Employees Under Washington Labor Law by A Washington state federal district court held the GEO Group was not entitled to intergovernmental immunity in a lawsuit alleging it violates the Washington Minimum Wage Act (MWA) at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). The …
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