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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 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
New Mexico Riot Raises Questions About Private Prison Company’s Competence by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The police department in Clayton, New Mexico and the state police ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
of Prison Legal News, prevailed in a lawsuit seeking to force private prison contractor GEO Group to comply with Vermont’s public records law.  The complaint, filed in a Vermont Superior Court ...
J.V. V. GEO Group, NM, Amended Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2019 Case 1:19-cv-00559-WJ-SCY Document 2 Filed 06/27/19 Page 1 of 23 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO J.V. Plaintiff, vs. Case No.: 1:19-CV-00559-WJ-SCY THE GEO GROUP, INC., WARDEN MARK BOWEN, and WILLIAM ALLEN, JURY TRIAL …
for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS")), whether known or unknown, which may hereafter be made or brought by Releasor or any other pm1y or entity against Releasees as a result of any damages, attorneys' fees ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
Pennsylvania Town Rejects Private Prison Firm by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regular readers of Prison Legal News are well aware of the abysmal reputations that private, for-profit prisons have ...
Article • June 4, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Itself The lawsuits in Texas and Vermont mirror other, successful cases previously filed in those same states by HRDC against another private prison firm. In one of those suits, HRDC sought public records ...
, "Find a Facility," http://www.corecivic.com/facilities; Management and Training Corporation, "U.S. Locations," https://www.mtctrains.com/corrections/. Private prisons have a questionable record ...
detention per day, while the Management and Training Corporation (MTC) holds close to 2,000.5 These companies run over 200 federal, state, and local corrections and detention facilities. 6 1 U.S. Department ...
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
BOP Official Who Ordered More Prisoners Sent to Private Prisons Hired by GEO Group by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Frank Lara was the Assistant Director of the Correctional Programs ...
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Vermont Prisoner Sexually Abused at Private Prison in Michigan Receives $750 by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Bernard Carter was incarcerated at the privately-operated North Lake Correctional ...
GEO Group, CoreCivic Face Class Actions Alleging Prisoner ‘Slave Labor’ by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna GEO Group, the Florida-based private prison behemoth, and Tennessee corporation CoreCivic ...
Teachers’ Unions Divest Stock Holdings in Private Prisons by David Reutter by David Reutter Pension funds for teachers are abandoning their investments in private prisons. The divestures ...
California State Retirement Systems Split on Decision to Divest 
from Private Prisons by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer The Teachers’ Retirement Board of the California State Retirement ...
Figgs v. Geo Group Inc, IN, Motion, Labor Trafficking, 2019 Case 1:18-cv-00089-TWP-MPB Document 31 Filed 03/29/19 Page 1 of 23 PageID #: 244 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION DAMARCUS FIGGS individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, and DAVID CORBIN individually and on …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
go after being effectively forced to resign? Hylton is now a member of the board of directors for private prison contractor CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America. Before she ...
to the private sector, exemplified by the growth of the private prison industry; and (2) the imposition of fines and fees on mostly low-income defendants to fund the criminal legal system. States and local ...
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Protesters Rally Against Private Prison Contractor GEO Group by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Activists protesting President Trump’s immigration policies are also rallying ...
Shareholder Resolutions Would Stop Private Prison Firms from Housing Separated Immigrant Families by In November 2018, shareholder resolutions were filed with CoreCivic, formerly known ...
Article • December 26, 2018
GEO Denied Summary Judgment in Suit Alleging Immigrants Are Employees Under Washington Labor Law by A Washington state federal district court held the GEO Group was not entitled to intergovernmental immunity in a lawsuit alleging it violates the Washington Minimum Wage Act (MWA) at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). The …
Rios v. The Geo Group, TX, Notice of Removal to Federal Court, Wrongful Death, 2018 Case 7:18-cv-00233 Document 1-2 Filed 12/12/18 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DIVISION MIDLAND Supplement to JS 44 Civil Cover Sheet Cases Removed from State …
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