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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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Tennessee Prisoner Escapes Privatized Medical Jail Care to Obtain Surgery by To obtain needed surgery, a prisoner escaped from Tennessee’s Trousdale County Jail (TCJ). Prior to being booked into TCJ to serve a probation violation sentence, Don R. White, Jr. 31, was scheduled for hernia surgery. “When I walked in, …
Almond v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case: 3:15-cv-50291 Document #: 66 Filed: 12/28/16 Page 1 of 11 PageID #:302 UNITE D STATES DISTRICT COUR T NORTHE RN DISTRIC T OF ILLINOI S CHARLES ALMON D, Case Number 15-cv-50291 · Plaintiff, Hon. Judge Frederick J. Kapala V. WEXFOR D …
, attorneys, insurers or the Internal Revenue Service. The parties may disclose the terms of this Agreement as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (hereinafter "CMS"). Released Parties ...
Brief • December 16, 2016
Whitlow v. Corizon, PA, Complaint and Jury Trial Demand, Prison Health Services - Failure to Treat, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-01874-CB Document 1 Filed 12/16/16 Page 1 of 51 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT ...
Brief • December 16, 2016
and Allegheny Correctional Health Services, Inc., sent him to Mercy ER for treatment; f.) When Plaintiff returned to the Allegheny County Jail after his August 15, 2013 visit to Mercy ER, he refused to eat ...
New Mexico Women's Correctional Facility, and including those allegations more pa1ticularly set fo1th in the lawsuit entitled Mary Lou Webb v. Travis While, Corizon, Inc., Corrections Corporation ...
Publication • December 16, 2016
except as brief staging sites; and undertaking a deliberate shift away from reliance on private prisons. The policy recommendations issued by the Homeland Security Advisory Council (“HSAC”) and the ICE ...
Roland v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-11398 Document #: 1 Filed: 12/15/16 Page 1 of 5 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Tyrese Roland, Plaintiff, -vsWexford Health Sources, Inc., Jane Hyslop, Carol Sieliga, Sarah Mays, Adrian Bryant, …
Brief • December 14, 2016
of themselves and a class of similarly situated individuals, Plaintiffs, v. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, CORIZON, LLC, GEORGE LOMBARDI, in his official capacity as Director of the Missouri Department ...
Publication • December 14, 2016
PLN comment to TN Office of Open Records Counsel re public records policy - Dec 2016 PRISON LEGAL NEWS Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights www.prisonlegalnews.org afriedmann@prisonlegalnews.org Please Reply To: Direct Dial: 615-495-6568 5331 Mt. View Rd. #130 Antioch, TN 37013 December 14, 2016 Comptroller of the Treasury Office of Open …
"CMS"). Defendant Wexford and its insurers reserve the right to disclose such infonnation as they deem necessary in the course of any subsequent lawsuit or legal proceeding arising out of the facts ...
the Management & Training Corporation. (A third MTC prison was recently shut down after prisoners ransacked it in a protest.) Except for a prison largely used to house prisoners from Washington, DC, these 11 ...
a private prison contractor in the death of a pretrial detainee at a Texas jail. Mario Garcia was confined at the Brooks County Detention Center, operated by LCS Corrections Services, Inc. (LCS). He ...
Former Warden, Sheriff, Justice of the Peace Charged in Texas Corruption Scandal by Matthew Clarke Elberto Esquiel Bravo, 55, the former warden at the East Hidalgo County Detention Center, was arrested in January 2015 and charged with acting as an accessory after the fact in a conspiracy to bribe Hidalgo …
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 ...
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