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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 • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Securus/JPay Video Calling Service Potentially Threatened by New Rate Caps by On November 19, 2024, prison telecom Securus Technologies, Inc., along with subsidiary JPay, notified users of services provided by the firms at prisons and jails of steps being taken to comply with a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order. …
cobbled together from profitable pieces of what used to be Corizon Health, whose money-losing parts were shunted into another entity called Tehum Care Services, which has filed for bankruptcy. [See: PLN ...
Details Vague on Spending from San Diego Jail Detainee Welfare Fund by The commissary operated in San Diego County jails collected enough revenue from detainee purchases to pump up the balance in its Incarcerated Persons’ Welfare Fund (IPWF) to $11.1 million by June 30, 2024. But the office of Sheriff …
of a private prison transport driver for violating the civil rights of detainees. Anthony Buntyn, 56, a former driver for private prison transport firm Prisoner Transportation Services (PTS) of America ...
release from prison. On November 3, 2022, Centurion settled the case for $75,000. Unusually, the settlement agreement specifically did not resolve claims against individual NMCD defendants or private prison ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
for the Middle District of Tennessee of violating his First Amendment rights with a gag order that was issued in a case he was litigating against private prison giant CoreCivic. As PLN reported, the Court’s ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
GEO Group Just Wants to Be a Landlord for Oklahoma DOC by In June 2024, after Oklahoma failed to meet a $3 million pay hike demanded by The GEO Group, Inc., the private prison operator gave ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
MTC Shuts Down Texas Jail by On September 30, 2024, Utah-based Management & Training Corp. (MTC) ended its contract to operate the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility in Garza County, Texas. The lockup is owned by the county, which confirmed that most of some 170 employees were out of work. …
,” the Court opined. Instead it found that the Court of Appeals also provided guidance in a similar case against Corizon Health, Centurion’s predecessor in providing NMCD healthcare. Quoting N.M ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
;   Additional sources: Jacksonville Tributary, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Corizon, Settlements, Bankruptcy
Corizon Health Bankruptcy Settlement Grows, But Only by $21 Million by Under the terms of a settlement announced in the bankruptcy of former prison medical contractor Corizon Health on July ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
a contract in July 2024 with YesCare, despite the bankruptcy of its predecessor, Corizon Health, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Oct. 2024, p.60.]   Additional source: Baltimore Banner ...
Court Strikes Washington Statute to Regulate GEO Group’s Notorious ICE Lockup by The Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, Washington, owned by private prison giant The GEO ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Prisons
unequal bargaining power, where the agency isn’t really able to meaningfully enforce whatever standards the private prison may have agreed to,” said David Fathi, director of the American Civil ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Colorado Prisoner Forces Correctional Health Partners to Treat His Colon Disease by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After winning a temporary restraining order (TRO) directing the medical contractor for the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) to treat his colon disease, state prisoner Arthur Burnham’s location was unknown on September 10, …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Prisons
in America— by combining Correct Care, Correctional Medical Group Companies and California Forensic Medical Group. HIG also controls TKC Holdings, which operates Trinity Service Group and Keefe Group ...
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
NaphCare Settles One Suit At Oregon Jail, Loses Motion to Dismiss Second by On August 2, 2024, after losing a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Jeffrey Simms-­Belaire, a former ...
, 2024—billed as “the largest political event of the year” in the Republican-­dominated state—Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison operator CoreCivic, brought his firm ...
Filing • August 30, 2024
Human Rights Defense Center v. Centurion Corr. Healthcare, NM, Order on Summary Judgment, Public Records, 2024 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 8/30/2024 9:27 AM KATHLEEN VIGIL ...
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