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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 • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
the acquisition of Avalon Correctional Services, which operates community corrections facilities. CCA officials also announced that John Ferguson, the company’s board president and former CEO, was stepping ...
Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. Details regarding bed guarantees in immigrant detention contracts with private prison firms were buried in the fine print. “Because ICE does not want to appear wasteful ...
Illinois DOC Settles Lawsuit Over Mental Health Treatment by Derek Gilna It took eight years but civil rights attorneys finally prevailed in a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), entering into a settlement that requires prison officials to provide 11,000 mentally ill state prisoners with adequate mental …
A Deadly Dust is Plaguing Hawaii Prisoners in Arizona by Valley fever is widespread in the Southwest, yet Hawaii’s prison officials haven’t paid much attention to it, despite the recent deaths of at least two Hawaii prisoners who had the disease. by Rui Kaneya, Civil Beat In the spring of …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
the surface of the controversial private prison industry by viewing it from the outside. Prisons both public and private are notorious for their lack of transparency, typically justified in the name of &ldquo ...
Hawaii Prisoner Awarded $7.2 Million after Losing His Fingers and Feet by Christopher Zoukis In October 2011, 30-year-old Aaron David Persin was accosted by police officers for having an open container of alcohol. When they determined that he had warrants for missing traffic court they arrested Persin, who was homeless. …
are considering hiring a private prison company, such as Corrections Corporation of America, to build the new prison and lease it to the state. CCA houses hundreds of Hawaii prisoners in for-profit facilities ...
by Corrections Corporation of America. [See: PLN, Nov. 2014, p.44]. Further, CIIC inspections led the state to fine private food vendor Aramark $272,000 for maggot outbreaks in prison kitchens and multiple ...
to comply with public records laws in those states. [See: PLN, April 2014, p.35; July 2013, p.42]. PLN had previously filed a public records suit against Prison Health Services (now Corizon Health) in Vermont ...
Jail’s Private Medical Employees Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity by An Arizona federal district court concluded that employees of Corizon Health, a private company providing care ...
Congressional Black Caucus PAC Urged to Cut Ties with Private Prison Lobbyists by The Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee (CBC PAC) says that it works to increase ...
to natural causes. DiNino’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and its private health care provider, PrimeCare Medical, in April 2015. The suit alleged that jail and medical staff ...
Private Prison Execs Continue to Make Much More than Guards by Information collected by the federal government has revealed the conspicuous inequality between private prison executives ...
Pfizer Deals Blow to Lethal Injections by Christopher Zoukis Pfizer, Inc., the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, recently announced new restrictions on the distribution of drugs used to execute prisoners. The May 13, 2016 announcement detailed “distribution restrictions” that the company is placing on certain drugs used in lethal injection protocols, …
Florida Courthouse Employees Commit Crimes with “Alarming Regularity” by A local news station reported on March 29, 2016 that Joseph Safonte, 72, was placed on desk duty after becoming the target of an internal investigation into the theft of items from the lost and found at the courthouse in Broward …
DC Prisoner Awarded $70,000 for ADA Violations at CCA-run Jail by Derek Gilna William Pierce, a prisoner held by the District of Columbia’s Department of Corrections (DCDOC), has won a $70,000 jury verdict for repeated violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Pierce, who suffers from severe hearing loss, …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle on April 10, 2014, protesting the Foundation’s investments in the GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in the U.S. The demonstrators urged the Gates ...
full-time prison staff members, so if the private contractors are willing to run the visitation system themselves, it’s a pretty sweet deal for counties. Especially when those contractors ...
; Besides providing security services, it also operates private prisons and immigration detention centers, provides electronic tagging (monitoring) for offenders on community supervision and has a prisoner ...
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