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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 • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Continued Failure in Privatized Medical Care at Kentucky Jails by David Reutter by David Reutter Private medical contractors have become popular among corrections officials eager to reduce the cost of providing health care to prisoners. As PLN continues to chronicle this phenomenon, we continue to find substantial evidence that for-profit …
GEO Group Acquires CEC in $360 Million Deal by In an all-cash transaction that closed on April 6, 2017, private prison firm the GEO Group, Inc. acquired New Jersey-based Community Education ...
in the health care unit – run by private contractor Wexford Health Sources – there was no on-call doctor. Although the unit was supposed to be overseen by a permanent medical director, that post had ...
revenue, which threatened the counties’ ability to make payments on the bonds issued to finance construction of the facilities. County officials also pointed to competition from private prisons ...
Report Finds Substandard Medical Care in ICE Facilities by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In a July 2016 report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that 16 of the 18 immigrant detainees who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody from 2012 to 2015 received substandard medical care, and that …
. GODINEZ, TERRI ANDERSON, SHERRY BENTON, MHOF, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, WEXFORD HEALTH SERVICES INC., JOHN DOE 1, and JOHN DOE2, Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 17-cv ...
Publication • June 30, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons
 Ending  June  30,  2017,   https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070985/000156459017016361/cxw-­‐10q_20170630.htm,  page  10. 3 “The  Banks  that  Finance  Private  Prison ...
Publication • June 28, 2017
Ohio Inspector General - Report of Investigation re Aramark, 2017 State of Ohio Office of the Inspector General RANDALL J. MEYER, Inspector General Report of Investigation AGENCY: OHIO DEPARTMENT ...
Hoffer v. Jones, FL, HIPAA Qualified Protective Order, Failure to Provide HepC Treatment, 2017 Case 4:17-cv-00214-MW-CAS Document 27 Filed 06/27/17 Page 1 of 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Tallahassee Division CARL HOFFER, RONALD MCPHERSON, And ROLAND MOLINA, individually and on behalf of a Class of persons …
Publication • June 23, 2017
to a recent study of prisons in Mississippi, prisoners held in private prisons received significantly more disciplinary infractions than prisoners in public prisons. This pattern held true across every ...
Brief • June 21, 2017
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Thomason v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2017 Case 1:17-cv-00659 Document 1 Filed 06/21/17 Page 1 of 14 Centurion 000017 ...
Montanez v. Trost, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case 3:15-cv-01397-NJR-MAB Document 67 Filed 06/16/17 Page 1 of 12 Page ID #492 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS CARLOS A. MONTANEZ, #B46636, Plaintiff, v. DR. JOHN TROST, GAIL WALLS, KIMBERLY BUTLER, TODD BROOKS, And WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, …
Murray v. Sood, IL, Merit Review, Medical Neglect, 2020 4:17-cv-04029-JEH # 12 Page 1 of 8 E-FILED Thursday, 15 June, 2017 03:34:02 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS TAVARUS MURRAY, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. …
Cobb v. Fitch, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2017 Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release This Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release ("Release") is made by and among Plaintiff Murry L. Cobb ("Cobb" or "Plaintiff') and named Defendants Scoti Fitch, Deputy Chief Theodore Uchiek (together, "Defendants,") and, in addition, the named Defendants current …
of CoreCivic and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). CoreCivic is the nation’s largest private prison company. It employs about 350 people at the Eloy facility, according to Pinal County Department ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
New Mexico State Court Orders Disclosure of Corizon’s Litigation Records by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna New Mexico District Court Judge Raymond Z. Ortiz ruled in August 2016 that Corizon ...
Private Prisons in Oklahoma Prove Costly by Private prisons cost the state of Oklahoma $92.7 million in 2015 alone, and almost $1 billion since 2004. With its prison system currently ...
, noting that the last-minute timing of the 2016 bailout payment to CCA in exchange for not closing Kit Carson amounted to “blackmail.” Kentucky legislators also put forward a private prison ...
announced its purchase of Community Education Centers (CEC), which operates reentry and treatment facilities. GEO also owns BI, Inc., one of the largest providers of GPS monitoring. In March 2016, Politico ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
prison firm, is a good exemplar of the issues surrounding the regulation and reporting of corporate campaign contributions in Indiana. The company, which is the largest private prison operator in the world ...
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