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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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as the worst sexual predators in the state, is necessary to ensure public safety. For Correct Care Recovery Solutions, a spin-off company of the GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison ...
Riot at Private Prison in Arizona Prompts Review, Reforms and Change in Contractor by Derek Gilna In July 2015, the privately-run Arizona State Prison Complex at Kingman (ASP Kingman ...
New York Counties, Corizon Reach $1.85 Million Settlement in Detainee’s Death by Two New York counties agreed to pay $1.85 million to settle a lawsuit over the July 2011 death of detainee ...
to provide medical care to prisoners, Centurion, LLC. To date, Dr. Walden, GEO Group and Corizon have repeatedly denied the allegations of sexual abuse. Notwithstanding those denials, seven of the 15 lawsuits ...
ICE Bans Crayons in Family Detention Center Visiting Area by Prisoners who cause property damage in correctional facilities often receive swift punishment. It was no different for the very young prisoners held in one of the United States’ most controversial detention centers. Housed with their immigrant mothers in the GEO …
Third Circuit Holds Prisons Not Required to Treat Impotence or Infertility by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prison officials do not have to treat medical conditions that could result in a prisoner’s impotence or infertility. When Shemtov Michtavi was incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in …
– an indication that providing adequate meals to prisoners can not be done on the cheap. Further, it appears that additional costs related to privatized prison food services will be passed ...
$175,000 in Damages, Attorney Fees Against Sentinel Offender Services by A Georgia state jury awarded $50,000 to a woman for false arrest and imprisonment by Sentinel Offender Services ...
its ties with Corizon Health, Inc., and awarded a contract for county jail medical services to California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG). The contract, worth $135 million over a three-year period ...
Gatlin v. Corizon, NM, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2017 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ("Agreement") is entered into by Jason T. Gatlin ("Plaintiff ...
, 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"). Defendant and its insurers ...
Mitchell v. Boyer, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case: 1:15-cv-05914 Document #: 39 Filed: 01/30/17 Page 1 of 9 PageID #:98 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ISIAH MITCHELL (#R-15082) Plaintiff, v. SEARGENT KEVIN BOYER, C/O ALPHONSO JOHNSON, DR. KUL B. SOOD, DR. STEPHEN J. RITZ …
Publication • January 27, 2017
cannot answer the basic question of whether private prisons are operating at less cost than public prisons, as required by law. Consequently, the Department is limited in its ability to negotiate new ...
Article • January 12, 2017
, Inc., one of the largest electronic monitoring companies now owned by the private prison behemoth GEO Group, boasts in marketing materials that in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, offender-funded ...
is provided by another private prisoner health care firm, Southern Health Partners). Strayer was then transferred to Dearborn County Detention Center in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The jail was severely ...
are incarcerated in the Tennessee Department of Corrections (“TDOC”) and housed at Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility (“Trousdale Turner”) in Hartsville, TN, a private prison owned and operated 1 Case 3:17-cv ...
Brief • January 12, 2017
Filed under: MHM Inc., Corizon, Staffing, Suicides
treatment hub on the weekends and holidays. 2. Any employee of ADOC, MHM, or Corizon (or any other contractor retained to provide medical or mental health care in ADOC facilities) may present a person ...
Michigan: Corizon Audit Finds Deficiencies, State Extends and Expands Contract Anyway by A performance audit of the Michigan Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) contract with Corizon ...
Two Fulton County Jail Employees Subject to Liability in Detainee’s Suicide by A Georgia Court of Appeals held in March 2016 that two employees of the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office could be held liable in the suicide of a pre-trial detainee. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the …
by a federal district court in a lawsuit brought by Richard L. Anderson against Sentinel Offender Services, LLC, a company that provides for-profit probation services. Anderson filed suit “seeking relief ...
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