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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 • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
West Virginia Slammed for High Costs, Low Quality of Privatized Prison Food by Before food service in West Virginia’s prison system was taken over by Aramark Correctional Services ...
with graduations to a quarter share for those held 3-45 days. The settlement did not resolve Class claims against Wexford Health Services and PrimeCare Medical of West Virginia, as well as the Commissions of seven ...
Illinois Prisoner Awarded Over $822,000 For Hernia Care Denied by Wexford Health by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   On April 2, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois denied relief to Wexford Health Sources, Inc., the private healthcare contractor for the state Department of Corrections …
County Booking Center (DCBC), PrimeCare Medical, in a suit accusing them of failing to treat a detainee who died in custody of a fatal fentanyl overdose. However, the Court affirmed denial of a claim ...
.34.] The parties then proceeded to reach their settlement, under which the county agreed to pay $1.6 million, while its private jail medical contractor, Correct Care Solutions—now known ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
After Takeover from CoreCivic, Oklahoma Prison Even More Short-Staffed by Five days after the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) took over a state prison from private operator CoreCivic on October 1, 2023, a ceremony was held to rename the former Davis Correctional Facility. On the same day, October 6, 2023, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Vermont Court Orders Centurion to Cough Up Records in HRDC Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke   On November 7, 2023, a Vermont court ruled in favor of the Human Rights Defense Center ...
-old Jeanna North of Fargo, N.D., from a private prisoner transport company. The law is primarily aimed at preventing prisoner escapes, but it also provides for background checks of guards, including ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Texas Bankruptcy Court Rejects Proposed Settlement of Prisoner Claims Against Corizon Health by On April 11, 2024, a Texas bankruptcy court rejected a proposed $54 million settlement ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Harris County Shipping Detainees from Overcrowded Jail to Mississippi CoreCivic Prison by On December 1, 2023, Harris County, Texas, began sending up to 360 detainees from the county’s jails to a prison in Mississippi, under a contract with its private operator, CoreCivic. The County Commissioners Court approved the $11.3 million …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Florida Prisons Playing “Whack-a-Mole” With Jailbroken Tablets by In an essay published in Slate on December 14, 2023, former Florida prisoner Ryan Moser said that officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) were “essentially playing whack-a-mole” in their efforts to combat an epidemic of “jailbreaking” prison-issued electronic tablets. The …
Brief • May 30, 2024
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Lujan v. Eyzaguirre, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2024 Centurion 003079 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement ...
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
. 2020). However, as case law has established for governmental employees, supervisory liability for a private contractor can be shown by a failure to properly hire or train its staff. See: Sanchez v ...
Migrants at New Mexico CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Forced to Clean Up Sewage with Bare Hands by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When raw sewage flooded two cell blocks at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) on November 14, 2023, guards working for its private operator, CoreCivic, ordered some …
’ family has filed suit in the Court accusing jail healthcare contractor PrimeCare Medical of negligently causing his death with inadequate treatment after his assault. The family is represented ...
denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a guard for private prison giant CoreCivic, alleging she was unconstitutionally strip-searched at Wheeler Correctional Facility (WCF). “Though ...
migrants on May 18, 2023, versus 223,510 on May 26, 2023 – a miniscule variation of less than 2.5%. What’s less hard to believe is that ICE simply regurgitated data fed to it by its private ...
, Wellpath Holdings, PrimeCare Medical and Armor Correctional Health Services, as well as Corizon Health, which has now been split between new prison healthcare contractor YesCare and Tehum Care Services ...
Third Circuit Unhappy with Federal Detainee’s Denied Marriage Request at Pennsylvania GEO Group Lockup by On September 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit revived a claim by Brian Davis, a Jamaican national held for four years at Pennsylvania’s Moshannon Valley Correctional Center (MVCC). The prison …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends by After banning state prisoners from receiving physical mail the year before, the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) extended the ban on September 25, 2023, to include books sent to prisoners from family or friends. The rule change …
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