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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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DC Prisoner Awarded $70,000 for ADA Violations at CCA-run Jail by Derek Gilna William Pierce, a prisoner held by the District of Columbia’s Department of Corrections (DCDOC), has won a $70,000 jury verdict for repeated violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Pierce, who suffers from severe hearing loss, …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle on April 10, 2014, protesting the Foundation’s investments in the GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in the U.S. The demonstrators urged the Gates ...
full-time prison staff members, so if the private contractors are willing to run the visitation system themselves, it’s a pretty sweet deal for counties. Especially when those contractors ...
; Besides providing security services, it also operates private prisons and immigration detention centers, provides electronic tagging (monitoring) for offenders on community supervision and has a prisoner ...
Publication • June 30, 2016
of the total number of U.S. prison beds under private management in mid-2003 was 49.4%, followed by Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (21.0%), Management & Training Corporation (9.2%), Cornell Companies (8.0 ...
Publication • June 28, 2016
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
of their dignity, and leaching precious human capital from already-distressed communities. ! ! GEO Group and other private prisons have a perverse profit motive to drive criminal justice and immigration policy ...
Publication • June 28, 2016
), and Management and Training Corporation (MTC) operate detention facilities, while other private contractors provide detention-related services. As indicated by the table, GEO has more guaranteed minimums than any ...
Publication • June 28, 2016
contractors to operate and provide services at immigration jails across the country. Sixty-two percent of immigration detention beds are operated by private prison companies,3 such as Corrections Corporation ...
, the nation’s two largest private prison contractors announced dramatic increases in their first-quarter earnings for the year. The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) reported a 17 percent increase over ...
Emery amd Burgdorf v. Burtch, MI, Order adopting R&R, Corizon doctor sexual abuse PREA, 2016 2:15-cv-11113-SFC-DRG Doc # 27 Filed 06/22/16 Pg 1 of 8 Pg ID 332 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN ...
OF BERNALILLO STATE OF NEW MEXICO ANDREW TRUJILLO, Plaintiff, CAUSE No. D-202-CV-2016-03860 v. THE GEO GROUP, INC., aka GEO CORRECTIONS AND DETENTION, LLC., AND CORIZON HEALTH, INC., CORIZON, LLC, CORIZON INC ...
Taylor v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case 3:14-cv-00122-NJR-DGW Document 102 Filed 06/17/16 Page 1 of 22 Page ID #493 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOlmIERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS FOR 1HE FAST ST . LOUIS DIVISION ~ DOUGlAS W. TAYLOR, #R69710 ) ) Plaintiff, -vsWEXFORD H.EALnI SOURCES, INC. …
and Detention Watch Network, both non-profit organizations that oppose prison privatization, reported that over half of ICE detention facilities are operated by private contractors. Those private prison firms ...
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Advocates Leery of Cell Phones Given to Undocumented Immigrants by Derek Gilna Immigration rights advocates are suspicious of a new government-funded program administered by GEO Care – a division of the GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies – that supplies cell phones to low-risk undocumented immigrants. …
ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - CCA Mason, Mason, TN, ICE, 2007 • Department of Homeland securit). Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Detention and Removal Condition of Confinement Review Worksheet (This document must be attached to each G-324a Inspection Form) This Form to be used for Inspections of alllGSA …
ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - CCA Silverdale Facility, Chattanooga, TN, ICE, 2006 • Department of Homelanlecurity Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Detention and Removal Condition of Confinement Review Worksheet (This document must be attached to each G-324a Inspection Form) This Form to be used for Inspections of alllGSA …
Publication • June 2, 2016
ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - Bexar County, GEO Central Texas Detention Facility, San Antonio, TX, ICE, 2007 • _rS. .ffice afDetention and Removal Operations Department of Homeland Security 4'25 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20536 u.s. Immigration and Customs Enforcement September 26, 2007 MEMORANDUM FOR: FROM: John P. Torres …
Publication • June 2, 2016
ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - GEO Karnes County Correctional Center, Karnes City, TX, ICE, 2008 ICE Detention Standards Compliance Review GEO Karnes County Correctional Center April 8-10 2008 REPORT DATE - April 15, 2008 reative corrections Contract Number: ODT-6-D-000 1 Order Number: HSCEOP-07-F-OIOI6 b6 Executive Vice President Creative Corrections …
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