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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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New Mexico Continues to Let Understaffed Private Prisons Slide on Most Contract Violations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2010, the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee ...
Former Oregon Prison Official Faces Ethics Probe by In March 2011, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,000-a-year job as an assistant administrator for the Health Services Division of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). Three days earlier he had been hired by Correctional Health Partners (CHP), a private medical …
Article • February 15, 2012
be justified if there were no controversy concerning prison privatization. But there is a great deal of legitimate disagreement about the benefits of privatizing prisons. There is no evidence that privatized ...
Videotaped Assault at Idaho CCA Prison Sparks FBI Investigation by Mark Wilson Guards at a private prison in Idaho looked on, but did not intervene, as a prisoner was beaten into a coma ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
, March 2011, p.34]. The private prison project had a promising start. Littlefield initially contracted with Correctional Services Corp. to run the facility. After the Texas Youth Commission stopped using ...
Article • February 15, 2012
Wierdsma is a high ranking official in the GEO Group, Inc., a private prison corporation ... with direct involvement with detention and deportation.” The counterclaim alleged claims of victim intimidation ...
privatizing state prisons. But first some background. Private Prisons in the Sunshine State Florida’s Department of Corrections – the third largest in the nation – has been in a constant mode of expansion ...
million a year. GEO’s rising profitability is a result of the company’s capacity to change with the times. While the War on Drugs and facility construction were the cash cows of the private prison industry ...
Colorado CCA Prison Uprising: New Details of Unheeded Warnings Emerge in Epic Lawsuit by Alan Prendergast Seven years ago prisoners at a private prison in southeastern Colorado went on an all ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
GEO Group Ends Florida PAC by An audit by the Florida Department of State found that the GEO Group, Inc., the nation’s second-largest private prison company, had been violating Florida law ...
Fight Brewing Between County Jails and Private Prisons in Kentucky by A bill introduced in the Kentucky legislature proposed removing approximately 3,500 Class D state prisoners currently ...
and unresponsive in his cell at the Bent County Correctional Facility, a private prison in southeastern Colorado. The official cause of death was listed as cardiac hypertrophy, or an enlarged heart. But Lagalia ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Family of Prisoner Strangled in Oklahoma GEO Private Prison Awarded $6.5 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In June 2011, the family members of an Oklahoma state prisoner who ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
,” with a requirement that private prisons cost at least seven percent less than state facilities. Studies have been unable to substantiate such cost savings. The CPC quickly became involved in financing ...
members include private prisons companies such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections), Management and Training Corp. (MTC), Cornell Corrections (acquired ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
CMS Pays $275,000 in New York Prisoner’s Jail Death by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a lawsuit related to a prisoner’s death. The suit, which ...
issued a bench ruling directing Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm, to produce records in a long-standing public records lawsuit filed against the company ...
prisons in Tennessee from January 2009 to June 2011, incident rates were consistently higher at the state’s three private prisons. Those were the findings released on October 18, 2011 by the Private ...
for Profit: A Look at Prison Privatization, which draws strongly on the experiences of other states with heavily-privatized prison systems. The report concludes that privately-operated prisons result in little ...
) in a suit filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking copies of contracts between the BOP and private prison companies for the detention of non-U.S. citizens convicted of federal crimes ...
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