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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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Article • May 15, 2007
Eighth Circuit Upholds Judgment Against CMS For Delayed Dental Care by In an unpublished opinion filed on August 7, 2001, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judgment against ...
Private Medical Services Skirmish Over INS Contract by A Delaware Chancery Court denied a motion to dismiss filed by Prison Health Services, Inc. The motion sought to dismiss the complaint ...
Article • May 15, 2007
CMS Doctor Not Liable for Delaying Bone Graft by The plaintiff saw a specialist who said he needed a bone graft procedure immediately, and the prison doctor defendant recommended that he get ...
Article • May 15, 2007
CMS Liable as State Actor For Denying HCV Care in NJ by The plaintiff complained about his medical care, reciting a long and tortured history of his treatment and non-treatment for Hepatitis ...
Denial of HIV Treatment Suit against BOP, CCA Dismissed by The plaintiff complained that he did not get adequate HIV treatment in the District of Columbia system because the Federal Bureau of Prisons failed to transfer his medical records (though they did send a piece of paper saying he was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Private Medical Transport Company Not Liable for Police Actions by At police direction, a private corporation transported the plaintiff to a police station, where he collapsed from ...
Failure to Provide Medical Records Waives Florida's Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Requirements by Failure to Provide Medical Records Waives Florida's Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Requirements Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that a Palm Beach Circuit Court improperly dismissed a prisoner's medical malpractice suit for failing to comply with pre-suit …
$40,000 Assessed Against WA DOC For Failure To Release Contract Medical Provider's Records by $40,000 Assessed Against WA DOC For Failure To Release Contract Medical Provider's Records Columbia Legal Services (CLS) brought action against the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) in 2003 for not providing public record documents requested …
$143,774.55 Attorney Fee and Costs Award in New York EMSA Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On May 16, 2006, a New York federal district court magistrate recommended awarding ...
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
was unconstitutional and invalid. The Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) and its medical provider, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), routinely transported women prisoners to abortion clinics at the prisoners ...
U.S. Supreme Court: Failure to Exhaust Remedies Is an Affirmative Defense Under the PLRA by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held on January 22, 2007 that when a prisoner files an action governed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), the question of whether …
FL Jail Pays $500,000 in Medical Neglect Suit by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit upheld a jury verdict against the Escambia county Road Prison in Florida for $500,000 in favor of a prisoner denied medical care. The plaintiff fractured his hip ball socket and was repeatedly denied …
No Immediate Appeals for Injunction Clarifications by by Matthew T. Clarke This appeal involves the latest round in a Byzantine conditions-of-confinement class-action civil rights suit by Puerto Rico prisoners which has been pending since 1979. At issue was the transition of the prisoner health care system from the jurisdiction of …
Juvenile Correctional Facility (NMJCF), in Charleston, filed a law suit against Prison Health Services (PHS), a company that provides medical services for several prisons across the country including NMJCF ...
with MCDC's medical contractor, Prison Health Services. Dr. Daniels diagnosed Tessier with pleurtis, a begnign condition, and ordered he be given a chest x-ray and motrin. About 5:00 p.m. on May 20, Tessier ...
reversed the district court's decision and remanded the case for further proceedings. See: Ancata v. Prison Health Services, Inc., 769 F.2d 700 (11th Cir. 1985). ...
Prison Liable in Denying Bone Marrow Transplant by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that prison officials can be held liable for promulgating policies that deny treatment to prisoners suffering from fatal illnesses, even when the prison has contracted out its medical care to a third party. …
Failure to Accommodate Blind Prisoner Violates ADA by A Florida federal district court has held that a private medical contractor, EMSA Correctional Care, Inc. (EMSA), and Sheriff Ken Jenne ...
Services (CMS) and Prime Care Medical (PCM) alleging that the denial of proper medical treatment by defendants violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Wall sought, among other things, $250,000 ...
, 1999, California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG) and two doctors agreed to pay a total of $725,000 to settle claims against them arising from a prisoner's death due to untreated tonsilitis. CFMG ...
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