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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 • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
. [See: PLN, June 2013, p.46]. Such records would have been made public had the jail been operated by a government agency. “This is one of the many failings of private prisons,” said PLN ...
Placing Rival Gang Members in Same Cell Not Per Se Unconstitutional by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the harmless error test in finding that a district court’s late Rand summary judgment notice did not deprive a prisoner of substantial rights. Additionally, the appellate court held prison officials were …
a $900,000 lawsuit against Miller, Multnomah County and Aramark Correctional Services, which contracts with the jail. The suit claimed that Miller began making inappropriate comments shortly after she began ...
the industry. Corizon’s competitors include Wexford Health Sources, Armor Correctional Health Services, NaphCare, Correct Care Solutions and Centurion Managed Care – the latter being a joint venture ...
to Christie’s estate. The jail’s for-profit medical contractor, Prison Health Services (PHS), now known as Corizon, was named as a defendant in the federal lawsuit and included in the settlement agreement ...
The Effects of Private Prison Confinement in Minnesota on Offender Recidivism by The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) recently completed an evaluation of the effects of private ...
Private Corrections Institute Issues First Annual Awards for Activism, Advocacy and Reporting on Private Prisons by On January 7, 2014, the Private Corrections Institute (PCI), a Florida ...
the prison and jail boom, this economic aspect of prisons has spawned some myths that often get in the way of effectively opposing mass incarceration. The first of these is the idea that private prison ...
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
of Corrections (MDOC) facility to the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center in February 2008, he came under the medical supervision and care of Correctional Medical Services, the MDOC’s private contractor ...
Mangaung and Beyond: Private Prison Exemplifies South Africa’s Criminal Justice Woes by James Kilgore In recent months a battle has erupted at Mangaung prison in South Africa. Mangaung ...
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
was later acquired by another private probation company, Sentinel Offender Services, LLC. A July 2, 2012 article in The New York Times highlighted the experience of one Georgia resident whose case ...
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Task Force Linked to Harsh Sentencing Laws and Private Prison Firms Disbands Following Public Scrutiny, Boycott by A national campaign to shut down a quasi-governmental task force backed ...
). The facility holds up to 1,500 prisoners and has been operated by a series of for-profit companies since it opened. The current contractor is Utah-based Management & Training Corporation (MTC), which has run ...
staff members met with representatives of private prison companies, which stood to gain or lose depending on how the initiative was implemented, according to emails and logs of visitors to Fallin’s office ...
Shareholder Resolutions Seek to Lower Phone Rates at Private Prisons by On November 26, 2013, shareholder resolutions were filed with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO ...
session on telemedicine was presented by Dr. Rebekah Haggard, employed with Corizon, a for-profit prison medical company, who spoke on the topic of leveraging telemedicine to achieve the “Triple Aim ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
, a semi-automatic pistol and other contraband was found at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility in Woodville on September 13, 2013. The prison is operated by Management & Training Corporation (MTC ...
Spinelli, an employee with Armor Correctional Health Services, the jail’s private medical contractor, about the rape and her need to take the prescribed anti-conception pill to ensure she did not become ...
, and another private contractor, Management & Training Corporation (MTC), took over operations at the three facilities. MTC also manages the Wilkinson County Correctional Center in Woodville, Mississippi ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Oregon Considers Subsidizing Prison Medical Costs Through Medicaid by With health care expenses for prisoners consuming more than $208 million of the biennial budget for the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) – a 67% increase since 2005 – prison officials are desperate to contain costs. Correctional Health Partners (CHP), which …
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