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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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to 2009 defendants subject to electronic monitoring were overseen by a private contractor, Total Sentencing Alternatives Program (T-SAP). T-SAP lost its contract following criticism that it failed to timely ...
GEO Group Still Invests in Florida Politics by Prison Legal News has long reported on the financial partnership between for-profit prison firm GEO Group and Florida politicians – a “legacy of corruption,” as detailed in PLN’s March 2011 cover story. GEO’s Political Action Committee (PAC) in Florida, where the company …
From the Editor by Paul Wright PLN has opposed the private prison industry since we began publishing in 1990; back then the industry was in its infancy, having started in 1983 in its modern ...
. Richardson and Wyatt suggest respondent superior liability pursuant to § 1983 against private corporations should not be foreclosed. Private prison employees and prison medical providers have frequent ...
Article • September 21, 2016
Private Contractor Makes Millions Off GPS Trackers for Immigrants by By Eileen Townsend, Memphis Flyer Nearly 200 undocumented Memphians wear GPS tracking bracelets as a part ...
Brief • September 19, 2016
Copeland v. Jones, FL, Class Action Claim Form, Corizon Refusal of Hernia Surgery, 2016 Case 4:15-cv-00452-RH-CAS Document 72-7 Filed 09/19/16 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN ...
Brief • September 19, 2016
Copeland v. Jones, FL, Stipulation of Dismissal, Corizon Refusal of Hernia Surgery, 2016 Case 4:15-cv-00452-RH-CAS Document 72-8 Filed 09/19/16 Page 1 of 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN ...
Brief • September 19, 2016
Copeland v. Jones, FL, Class Action Notice, Corizon Refusal of Hernia Surgery, 2016 Case 4:15-cv-00452-RH-CAS Document 72-6 Filed 09/19/16 Page 1 of 2 Notice of Proposed Damages Class Action ...
Brief • September 19, 2016
Copeland v. Jones, FL, Class Action Notice 2, Corizon Refusal of Hernia Surgery, 2016 Case 4:15-cv-00452-RH-CAS Document 72-4 Filed 09/19/16 Page 1 of 2 Notice of Proposed Damages Class Action ...
Brief • September 19, 2016
Copeland v. Jones, FL, Certification of Notice, Corizon Refusal of Hernia Surgery, 2016 Case 4:15-cv-00452-RH-CAS Document 72-3 Filed 09/19/16 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN ...
Brief • September 19, 2016
Copeland v. Jones, FL, Class Action Notice 3, Corizon Refusal of Hernia Surgery, 2016 Case 4:15-cv-00452-RH-CAS Document 72-2 Filed 09/19/16 Page 1 of 2 Notice of Proposed Injunctive Class Action ...
Brief • September 19, 2016
) days after the HSB is formally adopted and continuing thereafter, the FDOC shall comply with this HSB, and ensure that any future medical contractor or private prison contractor complies with this HSB ...
Brief • September 16, 2016
Copeland v. Jones, FL, Opt-Out Statement, Corizon Refusal of Hernia Surgery, 2016 Case 4:15-cv-00452-RH-CAS Document 72-5 Filed 09/19/16 Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT ...
GEO Group Fined More Than $100,000 (by OSHA) by Prison profiteer GEO Group was cited by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) in a June 2012 report with six safety and health violations—totaling $104,000 in fines—at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, which the company formerly managed. OSHA said that, …
Arizona Fines Wexford SIOK for Neglect, Hep-C Exposure by Arizona's Department of Corrections (ADC) disciplines private contractors like parents who banish teenagers to the cozy confines ...
indifference by individual defendants, vicarious liability of Correctional Medical Care, Inc. ("CMC"), and professional malpractice. Peter D'Agostino, a prisoner in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility ...
One Guard killed, Sixteen Staff and Three Prisoners Injured in Mississippi Private Prison Riot by Matthew Clarke On May 20, 2012, violence erupted at a 2,567-bed private prison near Natchez ...
Lucas's mental state change was never called. Medical services at the jail are contracted to Corizon, the nation's largest private prisoner health care provider. Headquartered in St. Louis, Corizon--which ...
Article • September 9, 2016
the Florida-based private-prison company has cut staff at one prison but continues to charge New Mexico's Corrections Department (NMCD) as if it's still employing the same number of staff. A June 2012 report ...
Article • September 8, 2016
Some Small Town Private Prison Bonds in Default by Matthew Clarke The Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Ocilla, Georgia is an example of everything that is wrong with small-town ...
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