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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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of Prison Health Services and Correctional Medical Services – would be paid $229 million annually to provide care for prisoners in Florida's northern and central regions (FDOC Regions I, II and III), while ...
, who previously served as Senior Vice President for Operations of Community Education Centers (CEC), a private prison firm that runs 17 jails and 34 halfway houses. Vose currently serves on CEC's Board ...
Research Study Finding Benefits from Prison Privatization Funded by Private Prison Companies by In April 2013, two professors at Temple University in Philadelphia released a study, titled ...
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
CCA Pays $100,000 after Exiting Contract to Operate Florida Jail by A mediation agreement between Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and Hernando County, Florida has resolved a dispute over $1.86 million after CCA and the county ended their contract for operation of the Hernando County Detention Center (HCDC), which CCA …
TransCor May Face Punitive Damages for Prisoner's Death by Christopher Zoukis TransCor America, LLC, a for-profit prisoner transportation company and subsidiary of Corrections Corporation ...
of his complaint on that basis was improper. See: Davis v. Prison Health Services, 679 F.3d 433 (6th Cir. 2012). Following remand, Davis voluntarily dismissed his suit so it could be re-filed after he ...
. CCA, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Texas), Case No. 3:11-cv-01006-P. "Private prisons siphon public taxpayer dollars into corporate profit," noted PLN managing editor Alex Friedmann. "They slash [medical] services ...
) and GEO Group, the nation’s two largest private prison companies, were converting their corporate structure into real estate investment trusts (REITs), primarily to benefit from the tax advantages ...
Prison Health Care Provider under Fire in Illinois by Christopher Zoukis In 2011, the State of Illinois signed a 10-year, $1.36 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, a for-profit company, to provide medical services to Illinois prisoners. Since the contract went into effect there have been numerous complaints concerning the …
CCA Admits to Falsified Staffing Records, Violating Contract with Idaho DOC by ON April 11, 2013, the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) announced that Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest for-profit prison firm, had acknowledged that employees at the CCA-operated Idaho Correctional Center (ICC) falsified staffing records from at …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
request, one company has offered to pick up the entire bill for the state. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a company that touts itself as the nation’s largest and most experienced private prison ...
CCA Warden's Title VII Claims Dismissed by When a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) facility warden failed to establish a discriminatory practice, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the summary judgment dismissing the Title VII claims. After being promoted to warden at a new CCA facility: Red Rock Correctional …
in expanded immigration detention, as operating detention facilities has become a significant source of revenue for private prison firms like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), GEO Group and Management ...
Colorado Pays for Unneeded Private Prison Beds to Subsidize Local Jobs by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Even amid a declining prison population, Colorado is paying million of dollars ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Medical Services (CMS), a private company now known as Corizon. In an April 30, 2004 note, jail staff wrote “that Rice was unable to stand, that his entire body was jaundiced, that he had a large, three ...
). Raher had requested various records concerning the BOP’s contracts with private prison companies, including the contracts themselves, contractor proposals and internal BOP emails. Under the BOP contracts ...
the complaint to determine the fair value of the company in an appraisal action following its acquisition by GEO Care, Inc. (formerly a subsidiary of private prison firm GEO Group). According to the complaint ...
US District Court Orders Release of Records to Prisoner by In the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, before U.S. Magistrate Lourdes A. Martinez, federal prisoner Anceso Rodrigo Aceves prevailed in his efforts to obtain certain prison records pertaining to himself. Defendants were officials of the …
Article • April 15, 2013
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Missouri Private Jail Assessed Back Sales and Use Taxes by The En Banc Missouri Supreme Court held that a private jail must pay $14,056.25 in sales tax and $5,459.79 in use tax, plus interest, on its purchase of prisoner meals, clothing, soap, shampoo, medical supplies and other consumables between 2000 …
Aramark Food Contract with Kentucky under Scrutiny by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An October 2010 report issued by Kentucky’s Auditor of Public Accounts concerning the $12 million food ...
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