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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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Tide Turns Against Prison Privatization by North Carolina, Georgia, Utah and Louisiana are among states that experimented with private prisons and because of problems encountered have ...
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
opposed to prison profiteering, expressed skepticism about the company's pledge and called on Sodexho to divest itself of all private prison holdings (including recently acquired U.K. Detention Services ...
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Prison Realty/CCA Bailout Deal Canceled by On the cover of the July PLN we reported that the nation's largest private prison owner and operator, Prison Realty/CCA, verged on bankruptcy ...
by shareholders. It remains to be seen whether the world's largest private prison corporation will remain healthy enough to attract investors and retain employees and customers (i.e. state and federal jurisdictions ...
at the private prisons were less desirable than at state facilities. The Wackenhut prisons are double-bunked with no electrical outlets in the cells (allegedly at the state's request), while state facilities ...
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
% within a week after Prison Realty announced it would pay increased costs for building and marketing private prisons. Several investment firms downgraded Prison Realty's stock, which dropped to a 52 week ...
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
CCA - Prison Realty Merger Approved by Alex Friedmann A merger between Corrections Corp. of America (CCA) and Prison Realty Trust was approved by shareholders of both companies on Dec. 1, and Dec. 3, 1998, respectively. CCA had spun-off Prison Realty Trust in July 1997, then announced merger plans last …
Equitable Securities, a finance firm that encourages investment in private prison companies, termed the Ohio situation a "public relations problem." CCA spokeswoman Peggy Lawrence called criticism directed ...
systems -- and the Tennessee scenario provides valuable insight into how advances by private prison companies can be successfully challenged. In April 1997 Tennessee Rep. Matt Kisber announced ...
. George Zoley made it clear that his company didn't plan to follow in CCA's footsteps by pursuing a merger. Eager investors looking to cash in on the profitable private prison industry took him ...
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
to the war on crime. Money was soon funneled into the building of prisons and jails and finding its way into the hands of private contractors. To date no federal prisoners are in privately owned and/or run ...
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Prison Realty Trust. This Nashville-based corporation is a spin-off of the world's largest private prison corporation -- another Wall Street darling, Corrections Corporation of America -- whose stock ...
the past decade, private prisons have made a comeback. Already 28 states have passed legislation making it legal for private contractors to run correctional facilities and many more states are expected ...
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
worked with Dominion [the very idea of a prisoner-broker boggles the imagination!!] to put warm Utah and Missouri bodies in the jail, and have found another private contractor, Dove Development Corp ...
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