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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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. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reacted to this increasing number of detainees by contracting with local jails and private prison firms for additional bed space. The expanded use of imprisonment ...
private prisons, for profit, in the United States, including four private prisons in the State of Colorado. At all times material hereto, CCA owned and operated the Kit Carson Correctional Center ...
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Filed under: CMS, Medical, Skin, Hepatitis, Limitations
CMS Found Liable for Inadequate Hep C Medical Care of Delaware Prisoner by The federal district court in Delaware has held that Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the medical provider ...
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
he was fired by Pittsburgh-based Wexford Health Services, another prison medical care firm, in Sept. 1999. While he was employed with Wexford, Zaloga had disagreed with the introduction of a new ...
Article • August 15, 2008
Washington Court Allows Ex Parte Communication With Litigant's Non Party Employees by Washington State residents Nancy and Daniel Wright challenged a court order preventing ex parte communication with Group Health Hospital (GHH) personnel regarding their injury lawsuit. The ruling was reversed as to communication with non party employees not having …
Article • August 15, 2008
Kentucky County Settles Loss of Consortium Suit for Undisclosed Amount by Phillip D. Hurst, a Kentucky prisoner, was taking prescribed methadone. When he returned one night to a Lexington County work release center in an intoxicated state, he was examined by two nurses who thought he was experiencing diabetes-related symptoms. …
Pharmacy. Allcare provides prescription drugs and other medical services to prisoners in the Arkansas Department of Correc-tions through a subcontract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Malone ...
Article • July 15, 2008
Prisoner's Action Affirmed Against North Carolina DOC For Negligence Leading To Amputation by The North Carolina Department of Correction (DOC) appealed the reversal of a 1989 summary judgment grant dismissing state prisoner Joe Medley's action for a DOC contracted private physician's negligence. The court affirmed the dismissal holding that the …
Article • July 15, 2008
Medical Services (CMS) for defamation of character after being fired over baseless accusations of one alleged eyewitness. The jury awarded them $50,000 collectively. After holding a door open for a guard ...
that Prison Health Services’ (PHS) failure to monitor her lithium levels fell under the common knowledge exception of N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2A:53A-27 and granted her motion for reargument. Upon admission to New ...
Prison Health Services Physician’s Assistant License Revocation Upheld by On June 2, 2005, a Maryland court of appeals upheld the revocation of a Prison Health Services (PBS) Physician’s ...
Publication • 2008
Filed under: Private Contractors
N 811 BROAD STREET. 5TH FLOOR. CHATTANOOGA. TN 37402 423' 553'5635 FAX 423"553'5645 H R s October 30, 2008 Mike Meyer1 CPA Hampton County Finance & Human Resource Director B.T. Deloach Building ...
tests and substance abuse treatment. Further, the former head of mental health services for the Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections, Dr. Gail Williams, was hired by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) in 1994 ...
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
, 2007, an Illinois prisoner who claimed he suffered a stroke due to negligence on the part of Health Professionals, Ltd. a private company that contracts with the State to provide health care to prisoners ...
Article • May 15, 2008
No CMS Liability for Denying Treatment for Dislocated Shoulder by The plaintiff said he dislocated his previously injured shoulder in his sleep. At 511: "For purposes of this case ...
Littles v. CCA, TN, Complaint, transport dental injury, 2008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0067 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0068 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0069 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0070
(VP & A) has found breakdowns by staff of the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) in its furlough procedure and troubling care provided by VDOC's medical provider, Prison Health Services (PHS ...
Publication • April 10, 2008
Virginia DOC Contract with Prison Health Services, 2008 ATTA.t;DMENT V Illustration Off-site Serri~es Medi~l (;are Pool Risk/Reward Sharing (;oJDpntations Calculation of Annual Pool aased on Actual ...
, the SCSO had had a contract with Prison Health Services (PHS) to provide medical services to prisoners in its jail. That contract was worth $2.4 million yearly. With the contract expiring on October 1 ...
to provide insufficient staffing levels. Although not identified individually in the report, St. Louis-based Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the state's main provider of medical care, was paid $49.2 ...
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