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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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HRDC/PLN Obtain Landmark Nationwide Censorship Settlement with Private Prison Company by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On July 24, 2017, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent ...
Numerous Lawsuits Filed Against Corizon Nationwide; Company Loses Contracts by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Corizon Health is one of the nation's largest for-profit medical providers ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons, Advocacy
No Private Prisons in King County, Washington by On August 14, 2017, the King County Council in Washington State voted 8-1 to pass an ordinance prohibiting the county from contracting ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Private Prison Companies’ Plan to License “Baby Jails” Fails in Texas Legislature by Bob Libal by Bob Libal Legislation developed by private prison corporation GEO Group that would have ...
Brief • August 29, 2017
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Harlan v. Corizon Health, Inc., et al., NM, Amended Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2017 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 8/29/2017 11 :46:28 AM STEPHEN T. PACHECO Angelica Gonzalez Centurion ...
Estate of Dennis Choquette v. Corrections Corporation of America, CO, Settlement, Wrongful Death Diabetes Neglect, 2017 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT and RELEASE ~ This Settlement Agreement and Release (this "Agreement'1 is entered into this2Z day of ~u~s± 2017, between the Colorado Department of Corrections ("CDOC") and the Estate {;Deis Choquette ("Estate"). The …
Article • August 24, 2017
Female Prisoner Raped By Florida Sheriff's Deputy Settles Lawsuit for $91,666 by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Shortly before the scheduled date of trial in the case, a woman who said she was raped by a Bay County, Florida, sheriff's deputy during a transport run to another jail agreed to …
Brief • August 24, 2017
EEOC v. Geo Group, AZ, Consent Decree, Sexual Harassment, 2017 Case 2:15-cv-01909-SPL Document 81 Filed 08/24/17 Page 1 of 24 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 10 11 12 Plaintiff, vs. The …
Article • August 22, 2017
Ninth Circuit Reinstates Arizona Prison Guards' Sexual Harassment Lawsuit against Private Prison Operator by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On March 14, 2016, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court ...
Grado v. GEO Group, NM, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2017 EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF UNION 8TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT UNION COUNTY NM FILED IN MY OFFICE 8/22/2017 3:30:36 PM BERNABE P. STRUCK DISTRICT COURT CLERK Rhonda Aragon GABRIEL H. GRADO, Plaintiff, vs. Case No. D-818-CV-2017-00028 …
Community Education Centers then took over, but its run ended in April, when GEO purchased the company for $360 million. "As far as I've been aware, the transition has been very smooth," said Robert DiOrio ...
Publication • August 16, 2017
Filed under: JPay, Inc.
JPAY New York State Contract, 2017
Garcia v. CCA of TN, NM, Settlement, Wrongful Death - Medical Neglect, 2017 SETTLEM • NT AGREEMENT, REL ~ ASE, A D COVENANT OF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the sum of NINETY-TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND 00/100 ($92,500.00), paid by COREClVIC, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby …
Butzer v. CoreCivic, FL, Complaint, Juvenile Sexual Assault, 2017 Case 5:17-cv-00360-JSM-PRL Document 1 Filed 08/07/17 Page 1 of 8 PageID 1 Fl LED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA 2Dl1 AUG - 7 AH 9: 33 CASE NO. ('" ' .. ., LESLEY BUTZER, as Mother and Next …
Brief • August 1, 2017
instructed cm previous occasions that restraints were not to be removed from inmates in administrative segregation such as inmates Contrcras and Gonzaleswithout a doctor's oider and authorization from ...
Brief • August 1, 2017
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
Tellez v. GEO Grp, TX, Order, 2017 Case 5:15-cv-00465-RCL Document 87 Filed 08/01/17 Page 1 of 1 FILED AUG 0 12017 UNiTED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CLERK. U.S. O$STRICT CLERK WESTERN ISTICT OF TEXAS BYxJ DEPUTY ) RAYMOND TELLEZ, ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) …
; Private prisons are especially active in incarcerating undocumented immigrants, and ITPI argues that the banks financing for-profit detention facilities are “complicit with the private prison ...
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
Seventh Circuit: Two-month Delay in Ordering Biopsy Not Deliberate Indifference by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled on October 12, 2016 that a two-month delay in ordering a biopsy of a prisoner’s potentially cancerous masses did not constitute deliberate indifference to his …
. (alcohol monitoring), Protocol Criminal Justice, Inc. (electronic monitoring) and BI, Inc. (electronic monitoring). GEO also recently acquired Community Education Centers (CEC), a for-profit reentry ...
to as “CCA/CoreCivic” in this document), GEO Group, and Management & Training Corporation (MTC). Of these companies, CCA/CoreCivic currently operates only in the United States, but the other two have expanded ...
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