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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 • August 15, 2011
Community Education Centers Acquires CiviGenics by In June, 2007, Roseland, New Jersey-based Community Education Centers, Inc, (CEC), the nation’s largest private provider of re-entry ...
of Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), while ASG owns Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) and Correctional Health Services, LLC (CHS). Those three subsidiaries provide medical, dental, mental health, pharmacy ...
Article • August 15, 2011
and federal government agencies. The plan included allowing CiviGenics Texas, Inc. to operate the prison. The feasibility study prepared by GSA Ltd. of Durham, N.C. concluded that with an 80% occupancy level ...
Article • August 15, 2011
has a medical care contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and a pharmaceutical company for delivery of prescription medicines, who receives a “fixed per prisoner per month rate plus the cost ...
and Wackenhut are major players in today’s big-business world of privatized prisons. A carpenter by training, Sandoval had come to this country to work in construction. Although a resident of Baja, California ...
indifference to his serious medical needs while he was incarcerated at the Lee County Jail. The jury found that the jail’s for-profit medical provider, Prison Health Services (PHS), was solely liable. Before ...
Insider Trading Charges Against Private Prison Consultant Rejected by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Florida federal district court has rejected insider trading charges brought against ...
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Hawaii State Auditor Blasts Private Prison Contracting; State Renews Contract Anyway by On December 29, 2010, the State Auditor of Hawaii released a report highly critical of the way ...
private prison contractor Cornell Corrections, Inc. because Cornell’s grievance recordkeeping process was so inadequate that the question of administrative exhaustion could not be determined. In reversing ...
Anti-Private Prison Group Rips Revolving Door for Federal Employees After CCA Hires Former BOP Director by On June 1, 2011, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Medical Services (CMS) were short-listed as finalists. Conmed, a publicly-traded company with operations in seven states, had won an $18 million contract for health care services at the jail in Chesapeake ...
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
of New York (Corporate Counsel) representing individual employees of Prison Health Services (PHS), because they had conflicting defenses. The court’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the family ...
Wexford Enters Into Confidential Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Pennsylvania-based Wexford Health Services, which bills itself ...
CCA Prisoner Awarded $3,250 in Excessive Force Lawsuit by A Louisiana U.S. District Court awarded $3,250 to a prisoner in a civil rights action that involved excessive use of force by a guard. The lawsuit was filed by Winn Correctional Center prisoner Derrick Levon Carter due to events that occurred …
Contributions to California Politicians Rewarded with Lucrative Private Prison Contracts by In politics, sometimes a little monetary grease goes a long way. No doubt, that’s why Corrections ...
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
passed. Reed-Bly filed a grievance. Prison officials responded, stating that the delay was caused by DOC officials awaiting approval for the surgery from Correctional Medical Services (CMS). The grievance ...
Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), various CMS personnel and Quality Plan Administrators, Inc. (QPA), a CMS subcontractor responsible for providing dental care to state prisoners. Sullivan alleged ...
Fifth Circuit: Wyoming Prisoner May Sue Texas Private Prison Officials by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 16, 2008, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Wyoming state ...
Article • May 15, 2011
$943,000 Settlement for Family of Man Who Died in Courtroom by The family of a man who died in 2001 from an asthma attack has settled a 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit for $943,000. Robert L. Waters, Jr. collapsed in the well of D.C. Superior Court Judge Tim Murphy’s courtroom on …
Article • May 15, 2011
Judge Denies Attorney’s Fees to Prevailing Defendant by U.S. Magistrate Judge John A. Gorman has denied a request for attorney’s fees and sanctions against a plaintiff who brought an unsuccessful civil rights action. Defendant Advanced Correctional Healthcare Inc. had argued that it was entitled to attorney’s fees because the plaintiff’s …
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