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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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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 ...
Publication • August 2, 2016
Filed under: CONMED
Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed -9th Amendment, 2016 ...
Jail’s Private Medical Employees Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity by An Arizona federal district court concluded that employees of Corizon Health, a private company providing care ...
Prison Privatization - Impacts on Urban Communities , Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2014 APPLES‐TO‐FISH: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PRISON COST COMPARISONS Alex Friedmann * Introduction ...
Publication • July 29, 2016
” in the reception wing, and escort van drivers were used as officers on other wings” (“Premier’s Ashfield “worst” prison in England and Wales,” Public Private Finance, February 2003). • A special UN envoy in 2002 ...
Brief • July 28, 2016
on May 8, 2016, Corizon would no longer provide health care in Florida prisons. ECF No. 69. Instead, Centurion of Florida would provide that health care and Dr. Sweetser would not be employed by Centurion ...
at the Reception and Medical Center, but that at midnight on May 8, 2016, Corizon would no longer provide health care in Florida prisons. ECF No. 69. Instead, Centurion of Florida would provide that health care ...
Publication • July 26, 2016
. Galindo’s family brought a wrongful death lawsuit against the GEO Group, the Bureau of Prisons, Reeves County, and the prison’s medical services contractor, Physicians Network Association. The ACLU of Texas ...
Publication • July 26, 2016
by ten 200-foot-long Kevlar tents. Three flags fly near the front gate: the Texas flag, the U.S. flag, and a flag emblazoned with the logo of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), the private prison ...
Publication • July 26, 2016
/4/2002 Settlement Matter Name Nature of Action Access to Co urts Employee Wrongful Termination Howell, Michael W. v. Prison Health Services, et al. CV02-510-S-EJL Medical Adams, Jerry Lee v ...
Publication • July 26, 2016
Filed under: Corizon
 with Minority Businesses  B.15.c.i‐iii. Level of Participation  B.15.d. Corizon Diversity – Total Current Employees    STATE OF TENNESSEE, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION  HEALTH SERVICES RFP # 32901‐31158  PAGE 8 ...
Publication • July 26, 2016
Glover v. CCA, VT, Autopsy Report, wrongful death, 2007 GLOVER, LATASHA DORllAN /lfE-C 200'7-500 CO:MMONWEAJ,UJ OF KENTt1CKY Jl1~tice Ca.bil'et OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATE CI,UEF M.EDICAI, EXAMINER Ce.ntralized L~bor~tory Facility 100 Sower Boulevard - Suite 202 Frankfort, Kentucky 4060 I (502) 564-4545 J!JNAL r. flypertensive Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Weight: 480 gm). …
Publication • July 26, 2016
Filed under: Private Prisons
Banking on Bondage Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration, ACLU, 2011 BANKING ON BONDAGE Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration NOVEMBER 2011 BANKING ON BONDAGE Private Prisons and Mass ...
Jaramillo v. Sisneroz, NM, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2016 JlJL/20/2013/WED 09:13AM FAXtio. P.002 SETfLEMENT AGREEMENT, RELEASEAND COVENANTOF NON-DISCLOSURE For the consideration of the swn of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND Al-,1D00/100 ($25,000.00), paid by CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, the receipt and sufficiencyof which is hereby acknowledged,T. EUGENEJARAMILLOdoes hereby-release, acquit and forever discharge CORRECTIONS CORPORATION …
Brief • July 18, 2016
that a private contractor performing a public function was acting "on behalf of' a public body and was therefore subject to all the requirements of IPRA). IPRA defines "public records" as: all documents, papers ...
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