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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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Corizon Faces Suit for Failing to Administer Tube Feedings to Pennsylvania Prisoner by Christopher Wallace, 30, was arrested on February 12, 2015 on charges of robbing two banks. According ...
Tenth Circuit Rules on $3.38 Million Verdict in CCA Prison Sexual Abuse Case by Derek Gilna In February 2012, a federal jury in New Mexico awarded $3.38 million to three female prisoners who were raped by Anthony Townes, a guard at the Camino Nuevo Women’s Correctional Facility, which was operated …
Corizon, CCA Settle Lawsuit Over Solitary Confinement of Elderly Woman by Matthew Clarke Corizon Health and for-profit prison firm Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) have settled ...
prison located in Raymondville, Texas that was operated by Utah-based Management and Training Corporation (MTC). The facility primarily housed criminal immigrant prisoners for the federal Bureau of Prisons ...
to eliminate for-profit prisons, despite taking campaign donations from private prison firms and her husband’s bail-out that saved the private prison industry in 1999. The stock of private prison companies ...
Brief • December 7, 2016
COMPLAINT Plaintiff Willacy County Local Government Corporation (the “County” or “Plaintiff”) files this Original Complaint against Management & Training Corporation (“MTC”) and complains and alleges ...
Grassroots Leadership Inc. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, TX, Judgment, Denying MSJ, 2016 ;::•cc-' in Th; District Court cf Travis County, Texas ('(j ·f?r DEC 2 2016 No. D-1-GN-15-004336 At M. Velva L. P ce, District Clerk GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, § § § § …
\VALDEN, ,JOHN DOE/JANE DOE MEDICAL STAFF, JOHN DOE/JANE DOE CORRECTIONS OFFICERS, SERGEANT STEVEN CAMPOS, THE GEO GROUP, INC, AND CORIZON, INC., Defendants. COMPLAINT FOR MEDICALMALPRACTICE, ASSAULT ...
Publication • November 30, 2016
Reforming Federal Halfway Houses, DOJ Dep AG - Memo for the Acting Director of FBOP, 2016 U. S. Department of Justice Office of the Deputy Attorney General The Deputy Attorney General Washitl8101I. D.C. 20530 Novembe r 30, 20 16 MEMORA N DUM FO R TH E ACT ING DI RECTO …
, or as otherwise may be required by law. The parties may disclose the tenns of this A.f,rreement as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (heteinafter "CMS"). The patties and their insurers ...
Luellen v. Schwarz, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case: 1:14-cv-08148 Document #: 118 Filed: 11/17/16 Page 1 of 39 PageID #:820 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION STEVEN TERRANCE LUELLEN, JR., Plaintiff, v. MARY DIANE SCHWARZ, WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES INC., DR. SALEH …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
for private contractor PrimeCare Medical, Inc. at the time of his termination. On January 12, 2015, Von Kiel pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, five counts of failure to file ...
making the employees sick.” Some of the workplace complaints also note that hazardous mold conditions are making prisoners sick. Three separate complaints cite the GEO Group, a leading private ...
to “save money” by operating detention facilities for less than what the government spends. Following the DOJ’s decision to phase out private prisons, the resulting 40% drop in CCA’s ...
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Preliminary Injunction Granted in Class-action Suit Challenging Private Probation Services in Tennessee by David Reutter Another victory in the fight against debtors’ prisons was achieved with the grant of an injunction by a Tennessee federal district court. The preliminary injunction, issued in a class-action lawsuit in December 2015, prohibits a …
Challenge to Ohio Private Prison Confinement Not Cognizable in Habeas Corpus by Mark Wilson The Ohio Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a prisoner’s habeas corpus petition ...
announced on August 29, 2016 that it was conducting a review of privately-operated immigration detention facilities, following a decision by the Department of Justice to phase out federal private prisons ...
]. The facility is operated by private prison firm Management & Training Corp.; it was previously operated by GEO Group before the company discontinued its contracts in Mississippi in 2012. [See: PLN, Nov. 2013 ...
Marshall v. Wexford Health Services, IL, Order, Medical Malpractice, 2016 Case 3:14-cv-00722-SCW Document 126 Filed 11/07/16 Page 1 of 6 Page ID #1019 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...
Gill v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-05160 Document #: 13 Filed: 11/07/16 Page 1 of 17 PageID #:55 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION TYRONE GILL (N-10443), Plaintiff, v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., RANDY PFISTER, SALEH OBAISI, LATANYA WILLIAMS, and ALMA MARTIJA, ) …
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