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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 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
: Windhurst v. Ariz. Dep’t of Corr., 536 P.3d 764 (Ariz. 2023). Centurion Health took over DRCC healthcare in July 2019. As PLN reported, Corizon Health is attempting to dodge settlements in dozens ...
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
denied any systemic issues with the prison or its medical care provider, Centurion Health. DOC tapped Centurion Health to replace Corizon Health, saying it hoped to improve a poor quality of care ...
Brief • March 20, 2024
Mathis v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2024 Centurion 003092 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETILEMEN T AGREEMEN T ...
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
in as many years before cutting ties with former healthcare provider Corizon Health in November 2021, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Mar. 2022, p.52.] The jail hired a new healthcare contractor, MEDIKO ...
Four Dead in One Month in San Bernardino County Jails, $3,232,500 in Settlements Paid So Far by Douglas Ankney, Casey Bastian by Douglas Ankney and Casey J. Bastian A spate of jail deaths in California’s San Bernardino County dating back to 2017 has led to at least four legal settlements …
New Jersey Private Prison Ban Voided by The issue of illegal immigration is a contentious one. Though entering the country illegally is a violation of civil immigration law, migrant families ...
Seventh Circuit Says Lack of Expert Testimony Dooms Illinois Prisoner’s Medical Neglect Claim by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit offered an Illinois state prisoner a hard lesson on July 27, 2023, affirming dismissal of his medical neglect claim against prison contractor …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Primecare Medical, Suicides
Unsealed Settlement Reveals PrimeCare Medical Paid $337,500 After Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 12, 2023, the U.S. District Court ...
“Unethical At Best”: Hawaii Budget Director Charged With Financing New Prison is Former CoreCivic Lobbyist by it would prefer not to run a new Hawaiian lockup, private prison giant CoreCivic ...
MTC Returns $5.125 Million to Mississippi for “Ghost Workers” at Private Prisons by Utah-based Management & Training Corporation (MTC) announced on September 18, 2023, that it returned ...
as California Forensic Medical Group. [See: PLN, June 2014, p.1.] A preliminary injunction issued in April 2015 was formalized four months later by the settlement agreement, imposing numerous requirements ...
Brief • February 6, 2024
Salazar v. Centurion Detention Health Services, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2024 Centurion 003139 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE IN FULL ...
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Almost $950,000 Paid by Inmate Services Corp. for Hellish Prisoner Transports by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 30, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of Arkansas gave final approval to a settlement agreement under which for-profit prisoner transport firm Inmate Services Corp. (ISC) agreed to …
and poorly-stocked—especially those run by private contractors, who are many layers of bureaucracy removed from any need to respond to complaints from their “customers.” The profiteers ...
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
No Data to Prove Whether $600-Million California Parole Effort Worked by Results of a yearlong investigation released on July 10, 2023, found that a state-funded rehabilitation program for California parolees started in 2014—Specialized Treatment for Optimized Programming (STOP)—has cost taxpayers $600 million, with little evidence to prove it is working. …
Brief • January 18, 2024
Filed under: Primecare Medical
OF THE SUMMERS COUNTY COMMISSION, The WYOMING COUNTY COMMISSION, JOHN/JANE DOE EMPLOYEES OF THE WYOMING COUNTY COMMISSION, PRIMECARE MEDICAL OF WEST VIRGINIA, INC., JOHN/JANE"DOE PRIMECARE EMPLOYEES, WEXFORD ...
Corizon Health Bankruptcy Delayed by Revelation of Attorney’s Affair With Mediator by On November 14, 2023, the federal Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a new ...
, perhaps a first for the secretive company that operates jails and prisons in multiple states. LaSalle is unique among large private prison companies in that it is owned by a family. William McConnell ...
.29.] GEO Group, also publicly traded, owns psychiatric hospital subsidiary GEO Care; electronic monitoring firm BI, Inc.; and halfway house operator Community Education Centers. HIG Capital, a private ...
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