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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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Brief • April 9, 2018
Cabell Huntington Hospital v. WV Jail Authority, WV, Complaint, Unpaid Medical Expenses, 2018 FILED IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF KANAWHA COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA 2018 APR -9 AH II: 52 CABELL HUNTINGTON HOS PITAL. TNC. a West Virginia not for profit corporation. CATHY S. GA'f SOH. C ~ KANAWHA COUNTY CIRCUIT …
incarceration, the news is not so welcome. In fact, it’s downright frightening. The Pew report, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, found that private prison populations have declined ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
per month from the company, Physicians Network Associates (PNA), to ensure that it kept its lucrative contract to provide medical care to prisoners. RCDC, a “Criminal Alien Requirement&rdquo ...
contract compliance. As PLN reported, MDOC tossed Aramark Correctional Services as its food service vendor following a  highly publicized failure to perform.  Aramark, who had a three year, $145 ...
Article • December 26, 2017
that appropriation of funds to pay for the constitutional duty was warranted. The trial court’s ruling was affirmed. See: Armor Correctional Health Services v. The Board of County Commissioners of Oklahoma ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
) awarded a contract to privatize medical care for prisoners. The winning bidder, Prison Health Services, merged in 2011 with Correctional Medical Services to form Corizon Health, which later won renewal ...
agency within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), issued an audit of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ contract with private prisoner company CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation ...
Publication • September 6, 2017
/130051DC - Privatization of All Correctional Health Services The Contract is hereby amended as follows: 1. Contract Sanctions: The existing contract sanctions cap of $90,000 per month shall remain in place ...
Publication • August 25, 2017
Filed under: Private Contractors
FDOC and Centurion of Florida Contract Agreement-Amendment #1 AGREEMENT #A3881 AMENDMENT #1 AGREEMENT AMENDMENT BETWEEN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND CENTURION OF FLORIDA, LLC ...
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Continued Failure in Privatized Medical Care at Kentucky Jails by David Reutter by David Reutter Private medical contractors have become popular among corrections officials eager to reduce the cost of providing health care to prisoners. As PLN continues to chronicle this phenomenon, we continue to find substantial evidence that for-profit …
in the health care unit – run by private contractor Wexford Health Sources – there was no on-call doctor. Although the unit was supposed to be overseen by a permanent medical director, that post had ...
announced its purchase of Community Education Centers (CEC), which operates reentry and treatment facilities. GEO also owns BI, Inc., one of the largest providers of GPS monitoring. In March 2016, Politico ...
Publication • 2017
Filed under: Private Contractors
Colleton County, SC, SHP Contract Renewal, 2017 - 2018 outhem Health P r ners YCI r Pa ,, n Affelt& e lnrru1?P eal:llc.!re 'tanlfSry 26 2017 s s By Kaye B. Syfrett at 2:53 pm, Dec 06, 2017 eriff Andy IC !and Colleton County S eri s Offioe 11:2 South …
Brief • May 16, 2017
Hood v. Branan, MI, Settlement, 2017
signed three mortgages to finance the purchase. Two years after the company based in the Worshams’ home purchased the property, Shadow Mountain opened a wilderness program for adolescent boys ...
County Sheriff's Department, Armor Correctional Hea~th Services, Inc., and Armor Correctional Health Services of New York, Inc., Defendants. ------------------------------------x SEYBERT, District Judge ...
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 ...
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 …
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 ...
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