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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 • September 9, 2015
$999.99 Settlement for Excessive Force against CCA Prisoner by $999.99 Settlement for Excessive Force against CCA Prisoner Corrections Corporation of America paid $999.99 to settle a lawsuit by prisoner Timothy Groce, who alleged guards used excessive force upon him at Whiteville Correctional Facility. Groce refused to remove his arm from …
Article • September 9, 2015
$13,000 Jury Award to Tennessee Prisoner Held on Invalid Escape Warrant by $13,000 Jury Award to Tennessee Prisoner Held on Invalid Escape Warrant A Tennessee federal jury awarded $13,000 to a former prisoner alleging he was unconstitutionally imprisoned and denied medical treatment while held in Tennessee prisons. Samuel C. Key …
Article • September 9, 2015
$4,000 Settlement for CCA Prisoner Injured During Transport by David Reutter $4,000 Settlement for CCA Prisoner Injured During Transport  by David M. Reutter Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $4,000 to settle a negligence claim stemming from a prisoner being injured during a transport from a drug and rehabilitation facility …
Article • September 9, 2015
Court Finds for Defendants in Juvenile Class-Action Against Florida County Sheriff and Corizon by On March 15, 2012, suit was brought against Grady Judd, Sheriff of Polk County, Florida ...
Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Prisoners Pay Millions to Call Loved Ones Every Year. Now this Company Wants Even More by Ben Walsh Prisoners Pay Millions to Call Loved Ones Every Year. Now this Company Wants Even More by Ben Walsh, Huffington Post A captive market, no competition and government contracts that make monopoly-enabled price …
Article • August 28, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
States are the Corrections Corporation of America and The GEO Group. Between them, these two firms pulled in about $3.3 billion last year running scores of private prisons and immigration detention centers ...
Tennessee Prisoners Suing Private Prisons Not Required to File in Local Venue by David Reutter Tennessee Prisoners Suing Private Prisons Not Required to File in Local Venue by David Reutter ...
in donations from them. Oklahoma’s spending on private prisons and privately-run halfway houses has risen moderately during the same time period covered by the campaign finance disclosures. In fiscal year ...
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
indifference to his serious medical needs against private medical contractor Corizon. He alleged that in 2007 while at the Wabash Correctional Facility, he submitted a Request for Healthcare to Corizon staff ...
Corporation of America (CCA) and Florida-based GEO Group (GEO), are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Other private prison firms, including Management & Training Corporation (MTC), Community ...
prison bed guarantees, ITPI cited the contract between Utah-based Management and Training Corporation (MTC), which runs a state prison complex in Kingman, Arizona, and the Arizona Department of Corrections ...
and bleeding. Armor Correctional Health Services resumed providing medical care at Virginia state prisons on October 1, 2014 – after Corizon ended its $76.5 million two-year contract with the VDOC ...
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal district court held on November 4, 2014 that medical care contractor Corizon Health has to produce mortality and sentinel event reviews in a class-action suit filed by prisoners ...
, but by then it was too late; Loadholt was dead. SCOC Commissioner Frederick C. Lamy blamed the jail’s healthcare provider. “Loadholt’s asthma was inadequately managed by [Corizon precursor] Prison Health ...
only to the extent the appeal rested on legal rather than factual grounds. The defendants were employees of Corizon, a private contractor that provided medical services to prisoners at the Cumberland ...
Strip Searches of Female Visitors on Their Menstrual Period Addressed at CCA Shareholder Meeting by Strip Searches of Female Visitors on Their Menstrual Period Addressed at CCA Shareholder Meeting Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison company, held its annual shareholder meeting in Nashville, Tennessee on May …
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal district court held on November 4, 2014 that medical care contractor Corizon Health has to produce mortality and sentinel event reviews in a class-action suit filed by prisoners ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
Private Prison Corporation GEO Group Expands its Stable of Former Top Federal Officials by Darwin Bond-Graham Private Prison Corporation GEO Group Expands its Stable of Former Top Federal ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
of the contractor, Sentinel Offender Services, failing “to abide by the limited statutory authority granted.” Next, the Supreme Court held the practice of tolling a misdemeanant’s probation sentence ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
employees, but a private contractor, Corizon, provided physician services. As a money-saving measure, no Corizon doctors were present at the facility after 4 p.m. or on weekends. A physician assistant had ...
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