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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 • December 3, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
Idaho: FBI Declines to Press Criminal Charges against CCA for Falsified Staffing Records by Joe Watson Idaho: FBI Declines to Press Criminal Charges against CCA for Falsified Staffing Records by Joe Watson and Mark Wilson The FBI will not pursue criminal charges following a 15-month investigation into allegations that the …
in a rubber room without any food and only three drinks of water. In May 2013, Murphy joined four other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Monterey County, Sheriff Scott Miller and California Forensic Medical ...
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
provisions are a good idea considering that NaphCare, a for-profit company, has the same business model as Corizon and thus the same financial incentives to skimp on staffing and medical care for prisoners ...
Article • November 13, 2015
Filed under: JPay, Inc., Trust Accounts
State Prison Systems Privatizing Prisoner Accounts for Commissions by State Prison Systems Privatizing Prisoner Accounts for Commissions by David M. Reutter Three state prison systems have ...
United States District Court Magistrate Rules on Discovery Issues in Prison Gang Death by United States District Court Magistrate Rules on Discovery Issues in Prison Gang Death On November 21, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, a magistrate judge denied in part and granted in …
Article • November 10, 2015
, showing that making money trumps rehabilitation. According to the report, “the interstate transfer of prisoners to for-profit private prisons across the U.S. impedes prisoner rehabilitation ...
Article • November 3, 2015
Filed under: Private Contractors
deficit, over the past three-year period, out of total budget of $49.1 million. With respect to outside contractor Correct Care Solutions (CCS), Hoffer noted that “cost monitoring was not robust ...
Article • November 2, 2015
On December 20, 2013, the Vermont Supreme Court held that Corizon Health, Inc. – formerly Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) – was required to defend the State against a wrongful death action ...
until it left the state in 2012. Management and Training Corporation (MTC), which currently runs WGCF and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) continue to operate private prisons in Mississippi ...
$1,250 Settlement for CCA Prisoner Subjected to Pepper Spray by $1,250 Settlement for CCA Prisoner Subjected to Pepper Spray Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) reached a $1,250 settlement in a prisoner’s negligence claim stemming from the improper use of chemical agents and failure to provide proper medical care afterwards. While …
reversed summary judgment granted to Correctional Medical Services, Inc. ("CMS") for an alleged retaliation claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act. In spring 2007, Katherine Kelley, a licensed ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Ohio Appellate Court Orders Review of State Budget Over Private Prison Sale by Gary Hunter Ohio Appellate Court Orders Review of State Budget Over Private Prison Sale by Gary Hunter Ohio ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
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 ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
release that announced the filing of his bill that the private prison industry generates billions of dollars in annual revenues and employs teams of lobbyists to persuade government officials to continue ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
health services contracts as a result. [See: PLN, Oct. 2015, p.20; March 2014, p.1]. Further, the IDOC had previously sanctioned Corizon for substandard medical care, levying fines totaling $270,000 ...
Article • October 23, 2015
Florida City Can Deny Water Service to CCA Site Outside its Boundaries by Florida City Can Deny Water Service to CCA Site Outside its Boundaries Florida’s Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court held that the City of Pembroke Pines has no duty to provide water and sewage services to a site owned …
Article • October 21, 2015
Filed under: Private Prisons
Private Prisons: Just Bit Players in Mass Incarceration by James Kilgore Private Prisons: Just Bit Players in Mass Incarceration by James Kilgore      &nbsp ...
. "Research to date on private prisons has found that they perform no better than publicly operated facilities, are not guaranteed to reduce correctional costs, and provide an incentive for increasing ...
Article • October 15, 2015
Federal Court Denies Former Prisoner Right to Catholic Television by Federal Court Denies Former Prisoner Right to Catholic Television The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s equal protection suit as frivolous. Raymond Gutierrez, a California prisoner housed at …
Article • October 14, 2015
Nevada: Incorrect Analysis of Fact and Law is Harmless Error in Denying Motion for New Trial by Nevada: Incorrect Analysis of Fact and Law is Harmless Error in Denying Motion for New Trial The Nevada Supreme Court held that a trial court abused its discretion by wrongly categorizing a fact …
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