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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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Publication • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Private Prisons
officials faced a dilemma of where to house inmates and how to finance the cost.77 To solve these structural and economic issues, the states “turned to the private sector for help.”78 Private prison companies ...
Publication • August 9, 2016
. The revenues received on behalf of these inmates would be pledged to the payment of debt service for the bondholders. Where a private prison developer is involved, the credit risk can be improved ...
Publication • August 9, 2016
• Georgia is far ahead of any other state in adult probation rates There are four private prisons in Georgia housing some 5,400 state prisoners • Two of these prisons opened in the last year • The other ...
the millions of dollars spent on lobbying efforts and campaign contributions by the private prison industry as a leading cause. Since 2005, when the Bush Administration launched Operation Streamline, which ...
Publication • August 8, 2016
by The New York Times and the Marshall Project. That article describes a number of failings and problems with private prisoner transport companies, including the 2012 death of Steven Galack, 46, who died while ...
Article • August 5, 2016
Florida City Cannot be forced to Provide CCA with Water Utility Services by A Florida Circuit Court held the City of Pembroke Pines did not waive its right to deny water to a Correction Corporation of America (CCA) facility. CCA bought a plot of land in 1988 in hopes of …
Fourth Circuit Holds Private Prison Guards to be Under Supervision of DOJ by Derek Gilna Some enterprising prison guards at the River Correctional Institution set up a profitable smuggling ...
a financial windfall from other people's misfortune.  Several corporations have fattened their balance sheets as private prison operators and numerous health care providers have received billions ...
OSHA Cites Corizon for Inadequate Workplace Safety on Rikers Island by Matthew Clarke Listing numerous instances of its medical, mental health and dentistry employees being assaulted ...
Publication • August 4, 2016
prison contractor. MTC further subcontracts for provision of medical services with a private correctional healthcare company, Physicians Network Association. Management and Training Corporation MTC ...
Publication • August 3, 2016
and that private companies could end up guarding all of Greece’s immigrant detention centers. 27 American private prison companies, including The GEO Group and Management and Training Corporation (MTC), have ...
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
the acquisition of Avalon Correctional Services, which operates community corrections facilities. CCA officials also announced that John Ferguson, the company’s board president and former CEO, was stepping ...
Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. Details regarding bed guarantees in immigrant detention contracts with private prison firms were buried in the fine print. “Because ICE does not want to appear wasteful ...
Illinois DOC Settles Lawsuit Over Mental Health Treatment by Derek Gilna It took eight years but civil rights attorneys finally prevailed in a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), entering into a settlement that requires prison officials to provide 11,000 mentally ill state prisoners with adequate mental …
A Deadly Dust is Plaguing Hawaii Prisoners in Arizona by Valley fever is widespread in the Southwest, yet Hawaii’s prison officials haven’t paid much attention to it, despite the recent deaths of at least two Hawaii prisoners who had the disease. by Rui Kaneya, Civil Beat In the spring of …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
the surface of the controversial private prison industry by viewing it from the outside. Prisons both public and private are notorious for their lack of transparency, typically justified in the name of &ldquo ...
are considering hiring a private prison company, such as Corrections Corporation of America, to build the new prison and lease it to the state. CCA houses hundreds of Hawaii prisoners in for-profit facilities ...
by Corrections Corporation of America. [See: PLN, Nov. 2014, p.44]. Further, CIIC inspections led the state to fine private food vendor Aramark $272,000 for maggot outbreaks in prison kitchens and multiple ...
to comply with public records laws in those states. [See: PLN, April 2014, p.35; July 2013, p.42]. PLN had previously filed a public records suit against Prison Health Services (now Corizon Health) in Vermont ...
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