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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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Idaho: Federal Court Unseals Pleadings, Holds CCA in Contempt for Violating Settlement Agreement by On August 16, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter, sitting by designation, unsealed a number of court documents related to a contempt motion seeking sanctions against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
to create more jobs – issued $55 million in tax-exempt lease revenue bonds to pay off other bonds and finance a 512-bed expansion at ICDC, bringing the facility’s total capacity to 1,201. The bonds were ...
after showing signs of weight loss. She had refused to eat or drink since entering the facility. Employees of Correct Care Solutions, which has a $2 million annual contract to provide medical services ...
Seventh Circuit Upholds CCA’s Victory in Indiana Jail Conditions Suit by On September 14, 2012, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s class certification and summary judgment orders in a jail conditions case involving the Marion County Correctional Center (MCCC) in Indianapolis, Indiana, also known as the …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
outsourced mental health services to Health Professionals Ltd. (HPL), a private company based in Peoria, Illinois. Yet this has not stopped suicides and other deaths at the jail. There is a current debate ...
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
of a wheelchair-bound arrestee who was injured while being transported to a police station. See: Barnes v. Gorman, 536 U.S. 181 (2002) [PLN, Oct. 2002, p.12]. Private Prisons and the ADA Prisoners held ...
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
New Mexico Prison Doctor Fingered in Lawsuits by Two lawsuits filed in March 2013 seek compensatory and punitive damages against former prison physician Mark E. Walden, GEO Group, Corizon ...
U.S.C. § 1983. “Billy Rosborough is a prisoner of the Bradford State Jail, a Texas prison owned and operated by…Management and Training Corporation (MTC), a private prison-management corporation ...
Article • August 15, 2013
and prison officials have been turning to private companies to cut the cost of feeding prisoners. Leading the way in obtaining contracts to feed prisoners is Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services ...
Article • August 15, 2013
Audit Report Recommends Michigan Privatize Prisoner Food Services by An audit report of the prisoner food service operations of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) found ...
Article • August 15, 2013
Florida Prisons End Religious Diet Accommodation by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has ended a four-year-long program that provided Jewish and Muslim prisoners with meals that satisfy their religious requirements. Originally, the program was aimed solely at Jewish prisoners. Costs and fairness were cited as the factors to end …
Article • August 15, 2013
California: Court Upholds Governor’s Authority to Contract with Out-of-State Private Prisons during Prison Overcrowding State of Emergency by The California Court of Appeal held in 2008 ...
$450,000 Settlement in Prisoner’s Heroin Withdrawal Death Suit by In May, 2003, Prison Health Services (PHS) agreed to pay the family of Candace “Candy” Brown $450,000 to settle a lawsuit ...
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
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., a Texas company. The deal was brokered by James Parkey with Corplan Corrections. The bondholders, comprised of four large money managers and two individuals, "ran out of patience" with Two Rivers' efforts ...
Seventh Circuit Remands Illinois Prisoner's Hernia Case for New Trial by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on August 10, 2012 that a district court's jury instructions concerning deliberate indifference in a prisoner's lawsuit were misleading and prejudicial, and therefore required a new trial. In November 2004, Illinois River …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Seventh Circuit Remands Case Concerning Treatment of Prisoner's Hemorrhoids by On July 23, 2012, after expediting a prisoner's appeal, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the district court to likewise act promptly following remand. The appellate court said such action was necessary because the plaintiff was experiencing "excruciating pain" …
detention facilities, as well as the fact that private prison firms lobby on immigration-related issues and have been implicated in Arizona's enactment of a harsh anti-immigrant law, SB 1070. [See, e.g., PLN ...
to a charge of witness intimidation also resulted in the dismissal of a sexual assault charge stemming from when Sims was employed as warden of the Walnut Grove Transition Center, which was operated by private ...
Professionals, Ltd. (HPL), to provide prisoner medical care. On-site doctor visits occurred only 2-4 hours, one day a week. The company's on-call physician, Dr. Stephen Cullinan, was based nearly 300 miles away ...
CCA Loses Four Private Prison Contracts in One Month by On June 18, 2013 the Idaho Board of Correction voted not to renew the state's $29.9 million contract with Corrections Corporation ...
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