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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 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Stock Prices for Private Prison Firms Surge After Trump Elected President by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election early ...
HRDC Supports Lawsuit Against Jailing of Immigrant Children by The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent organization of Prison Legal News, has joined a friend-of-the-court brief in a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s practice of holding young, immigrant children in prison-like facilities for indefinite periods of time. In an …
, 2017, newly-appointed U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a terse memo, rescinded the Obama administration’s decision to phase out private prisons, resulting in a substantial jump in the stock ...
Report: How Private Prison Companies Exercise Influence Over Public Officials by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis An October 2016 report released by In the Public Interest (ITPI ...
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons
2011, p.34; Dec. 2009, p.1]. The situation is dire for Hardin. The facility sat vacant for seven years until TRA entered into a contract with Louisiana-based Emerald Correctional Management to operate ...
Article • March 31, 2017
- on paper - is the increased use of out-of-state private prisons. Brown recently signed two separate deals with private prison providers CCA and GEO Group to house additional prisoners, making California one ...
Gaffney v. Corizon Health, et al., FL, settlement, herniated disc, 2017 ...
Tinkham v. GEO Group, NM, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2017 FILED IN 4th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT 3/29/2017 2:44:04 PM blc FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COU~TY OF GUADALUPE STATE OF ~EW MEXICO MICHAEL TINKHAM, Plaintiff, Case ~o.: Y, D-424-CV-2017-00035 Sandoval, Matthew J. THE GEO GROUP and JOH~ DOE 1, JOH~ DOE …
James v. CoreCivic, NM, Settlement, Employment Retaliation, 2017 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF CIBOLA THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MARY B. JAMES, Plaintiff, vs. No. D-1333-CV-2015-00207 CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, a foreign corporation, Defendant. SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE WHEREAS, Mary James (hereinafter referred to as "Plaintiff'), having filed a …
Article • March 27, 2017
Filed under: Corizon, Medication, Hepatitis
constitutional status – at least not judging by the volume of correctional health care-related lawsuits against prisons and, increasingly, their medical services contractors. Corizon – the largest ...
Johnson v. Davida, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case: 1:15-cv-11016 Document #: 84 Filed: 03/27/17 Page 1 of 12 PageID #:201 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DONNELL JOHNSON(R-68433) Plaintiff, v. DR. ARTHUR DAVIDA, RANDY PFISTER, DR. LOUIS SHICKER and WEXFORD HEALTH …
, THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, WEXFORD HEALTH INCORPORATED, CORIZON HEALTH SOURCES, DR. KENNETH MERCHANT, JANE DOE MERCHANT, CARY TUCKER, JANE DOE TUCKER, C. MAHLER and NURSE JOHN DOE, in the United ...
Publication • March 21, 2017
Capitol, Room 5050 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: Support for SB 29 – Immigrant Detention Dear Senator Lara: The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), a leader in the effort to abolish the private prison industry ...
affirmed an Idaho federal district court ruling that found Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) -- a private prison company -- in contempt of court for failing to comply with a settlement agreement when ...
Lujan v. Wetzel, NM, Settlement, Religious Freedom, 2017 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, RELEASE, AND COVENANT OF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the sum of EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($8,500.00), paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, MONICA LUJAN does hereby release, …
Hope v. Welty, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case 3:16-cv-00327-NJR-MAB Document 65 Filed 03/17/17 Page 1 of 20 Page ID #512 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS GREGORY HOPE, N50178, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) TAMMY WELTY, ) KIM WOODS, PATRICK RIGGS, ) …
Garcia v. CoreCivic, NM, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2017 SETTLEMENTAGREEMENT,RELEASE, AND COVENANTOF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the sum of FORTY-SIX THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($46,000.00), paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, HENRY GARCIA does hereby release, acquit, and forever discharge CORRECTIONS …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
object to protect the jobs and financial benefits the facilities provide. Further, the private prison industry is firmly entrenched in Louisiana; one company, LaSalle Corrections, operates eight facilities ...
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Despite Lack of State License, ICE Family Detention Center Continues Operating by In 2015, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (PDHS) issued a statement saying it “believes that the current use of the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC) as a family residential center is inconsistent with its current license as …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
operated, too. New Zealand dropped private prison operator Serco as the private contractor for the Mount Eden Corrections Facility in 2016 after an investigation into “fight clubs” at the prison ...
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