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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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Seventh Circuit Says Lack of Expert Testimony Dooms Illinois Prisoner’s Medical Neglect Claim by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit offered an Illinois state prisoner a hard lesson on July 27, 2023, affirming dismissal of his medical neglect claim against prison contractor …
Eighth Circuit Affirms $800,000 Award After Arkansas Jail Detainee’s Fatal Appendix Rupture by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed an $800,000 jury award against a contract doctor at an Arkansas jail, in a suit brought on behalf …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Primecare Medical, Suicides
Unsealed Settlement Reveals PrimeCare Medical Paid $337,500 After Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 12, 2023, the U.S. District Court ...
“Unethical At Best”: Hawaii Budget Director Charged With Financing New Prison is Former CoreCivic Lobbyist by it would prefer not to run a new Hawaiian lockup, private prison giant CoreCivic ...
MTC Returns $5.125 Million to Mississippi for “Ghost Workers” at Private Prisons by Utah-based Management & Training Corporation (MTC) announced on September 18, 2023, that it returned ...
as California Forensic Medical Group. [See: PLN, June 2014, p.1.] A preliminary injunction issued in April 2015 was formalized four months later by the settlement agreement, imposing numerous requirements ...
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Almost $950,000 Paid by Inmate Services Corp. for Hellish Prisoner Transports by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 30, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of Arkansas gave final approval to a settlement agreement under which for-profit prisoner transport firm Inmate Services Corp. (ISC) agreed to …
and poorly-stocked—especially those run by private contractors, who are many layers of bureaucracy removed from any need to respond to complaints from their “customers.” The profiteers ...
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
No Data to Prove Whether $600-Million California Parole Effort Worked by Results of a yearlong investigation released on July 10, 2023, found that a state-funded rehabilitation program for California parolees started in 2014—Specialized Treatment for Optimized Programming (STOP)—has cost taxpayers $600 million, with little evidence to prove it is working. …
Corizon Health Bankruptcy Delayed by Revelation of Attorney’s Affair With Mediator by On November 14, 2023, the federal Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a new ...
, perhaps a first for the secretive company that operates jails and prisons in multiple states. LaSalle is unique among large private prison companies in that it is owned by a family. William McConnell ...
.29.] GEO Group, also publicly traded, owns psychiatric hospital subsidiary GEO Care; electronic monitoring firm BI, Inc.; and halfway house operator Community Education Centers. HIG Capital, a private ...
as healthcare contractors PrimeCare Medical of West Virginia and PSIMed. McDonald was diagnosed as suicidal and suffering from seizures upon intake as a pretrial detainee on August 20, 2017. She also exhibited ...
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
, LaSalle Corrections and Management and Training Corporation. Among states that use them, private prisons hold the biggest share of state prisoners in Montana—about 50%. In Arizona, Hawaii, New Mexico ...
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Eleventh Circuit Revives Claim Against NaphCare for Wrongful Death of Atlanta Jail Detainee by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney “This appeal arises from the tragic death of Antonio May ...
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Wexford Handbook Warns That Illinois Prisoners “Can Be Very Manipulative” by A “Provider Handbook” for “Physicians, Psychiatrists, Dentists, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants” employed in Illinois state prisons by Wexford Health Sources warns that “[i]nmates can be very manipulative,” so healthcare workers are advised to “[n]ever take anything from or …
Tennessee Extends CoreCivic Contract Despite Deaths, Almost $18 Million in Fines by In a three-minute meeting on May 31, 2023, the State Building Commission of Tennessee approved a request from the Department of Correction (DOC) for budget revision, funding, and amendment to the existing CoreCivic contract to operate South Central …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
, as was Centurion Healthcare—which had replaced Corizon Health in June 2019 as DOC’s private medical provider—since there was no evidence Centurion Healthcare had delayed or denied Campbell’s ...
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
NaphCare Nurse Faces Liability in Ohio Detainee’s Death from Sickle Cell Disease by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 1, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed ...
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