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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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, there are at least five known cases of pregnant prisoners being denied adequate medical care at CCA facilities, resulting in the death of one prisoner and four of their babies. Private prison operators such as CCA ...
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
charge filed against a former U.S. Marshals Service agent in Arizona who had applied for a job with a private prison company he previously monitored has been dropped, and prosecutors let him enter a pre ...
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
agreed to “present and recommend ... approval” of the company’s application for a license. See: In the Matter of JPay, Inc., Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs ...
Article • November 17, 2014
population is held in private prisons. But, as Rae's experience and recent news stories have demonstrated, private companies have found other ways to profit from bodies in government-run prisons. Services ...
Inspection Finds Improvements at CCA-Owned Ohio Facility Following Rocky Start by Inspection Finds Improvements at CCA-Owned Ohio Facility Following Rocky Start A September 2013 re-inspection report cited improvements in conditions at a privately-owned prison near Cleveland, Ohio compared to an inspection performed a year earlier, when state auditors identified numerous …
Florida: Sheriff’s Office and Medical Provider Pay $1 Million for Prisoner’s Death by Gary Hunter In July 2013, Armor Correctional Health Services agreed to settle a wrongful death suit ...
officials, private prison operators, prison guards unions and county sheriffs – are exploring changing discourse and cosmetic reform in order to avoid systemic restructuring. In the business world ...
and the Public Accountability Initiative, also noted that Management and Training Corporation (MTC), the nation’s third-largest private prison firm, borrows money from Wells Fargo. The report argued ...
incentives in our criminal justice system has grown. Private prison corporations such as Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group have come under increasing scrutiny and pressure for cutting corners ...
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
California Exhaustion Requirement Extends to Independent Contractors by Mark Wilson California Exhaustion Requirement Extends to Independent Contractors by Mark Wilson On December 6, 2013, the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, held that prisoners must exhaust administrative remedies before suing independent contractors employed by the prison system. California prisoner …
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
. The suit was filed in July 2012 on behalf of five women incarcerated at Fluvanna, and names as defendants the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC), Armor Correctional Health Services and both VDOC ...
had held that a private prison company was required to comply with the state’s public records law, joining decisions by courts in Tennessee, Florida and Vermont. [See: PLN, July 2013, p.42; June ...
beds, bringing up the escapes from a Kingman, Arizona prison operated by Management and Training Corporation (MTC) that resulted in a bloody murder spree. According to them, MTC took full blame ...
Article • October 3, 2014
Correctional Services for mental health care. That contract was worth $28,858,200. Effective July 1, 2012, TDOC contracted with Corizon, which was created by Correctional Medical Services and Prison Health ...
Article • October 3, 2014
Another Failed Experiment: Minnesota’s Private Prison Health Care Saves Money but Costs Lives by David Reutter Another Failed Experiment: Minnesota’s Private Prison Health Care Saves ...
Article • October 3, 2014
; By Derek Gilna   Her position as Vice-Chairman of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), third largest private prison operator in the United States, proved to be the undoing of Jane Marquardt, who ...
Article • October 3, 2014
Private Probation Firms Costing Georgia Taxpayers by Private Probation Firms Costing Georgia Taxpayers   After several probation companies operating in Georgia were sued last year, a TV news investigation on private probation yielded some persuasive perspectives.   Some probationers explained to WSB-TV that private probation firms–which account for about 40% …
Medical Neglect Killing Prisoners at CCA-Run Texas Prison? by Matthew Clarke Medical Neglect Killing Prisoners at CCA-Run Texas Prison?   by Matthew Clarke   Family members and former Dawson State Jail prisoners are alleging medical neglect led to the recent deaths of two prisoners at the Corrections Corporation of America …
Article • October 3, 2014
the prisoner healthcare system into decline.   Wexford and the ADC abruptly decided to cancel the company’s contract in January 2013, and rival prison medical services firm Corizon took over the ADC ...
incentives (financial bonuses) and disincentives (potential loss of contracts), private contractors can be motivated to meet specified standards. Future recidivism performance measures by the Pennsylvania DOC ...
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