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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 • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Defunct Louisiana Juvenile Private Prison Reactivated by GEO for Immigrants by A Jena, Louisiana private prison with a troubled past will experience rebirth as an immigrant detention center ...
Georgia Suicide Claim Reinstated Against PHS by The Georgia Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a negligence claim against Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) stemming from a 17-year ...
tests and substance abuse treatment. Further, the former head of mental health services for the Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections, Dr. Gail Williams, was hired by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) in 1994 ...
$2 Million Confidential Settlement In CCA Prisoner’s 2004 Beating Death Revealed by Alex Friedmann $2 Million Confidential Settlement In CCA Prisoner's 2004 Beating Death Revealed by Alex Friedmann PLN has previously reported on the death of Estelle Richardson, a mentally ill prisoner who died at the CCA-operated Metro-Davidson County Detention …
rejecting bids from Emerald Correction Management to use a Texas prison and CiviGenics to use a prison in Louisiana.[45] However, the consideration was not to reduce the burden on prisoners and their families ...
PHS Not Liable for Prisoner Attack on Nurses by The plaintiffs were nurses employed by Prison Health Services, Inc., and were attacked and beaten by a prisoner. The Supreme Court's decision ...
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
, 2007, an Illinois prisoner who claimed he suffered a stroke due to negligence on the part of Health Professionals, Ltd. a private company that contracts with the State to provide health care to prisoners ...
No Restriction on Moving Wisconsin Prisoners to Private Out of State Prisons by The plaintiff sought an injunction against his transfer to a private prison in Texas or Tennessee. His ...
Federal Prisons Not Subject to ADA by The hearing-impaired plaintiff complained of his treatment in a Wackenhut facility while awaiting deportation. Since he has now been deported, his claim about conditions is moot, and the court lacks jurisdiction to overturn his deportation even though he says he elected not to …
Article • May 15, 2008
No CMS Liability for Denying Treatment for Dislocated Shoulder by The plaintiff said he dislocated his previously injured shoulder in his sleep. At 511: "For purposes of this case ...
Flurry of Escapes Emphasizes Prisoners' Desperation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Last September produced a bumper crop of prison and jail escapes around the country, including a desperate escape by two Texas prisoners that resulted in the death of a guard, a car jacking and two shootouts. Plus a …
(VP & A) has found breakdowns by staff of the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) in its furlough procedure and troubling care provided by VDOC's medical provider, Prison Health Services (PHS ...
of a Corrections Corp. of America prison cell. Four years later, that unsolved homicide has come back to haunt Republican stalwart "Gus" Puryear, the nation's top private prison litigator and Bush nominee for U.S ...
-tier program for healthcare delivery: the profit-driven substandard care typical of private prisons and the federal constitution-dictated standard of care provided under the Receiver. Recently-enacted ...
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
Corrections Institute, which opposes prison privatization. He added that the relative number of incidents such as escapes, riots and abuse of prisoners by guards is higher at private prisons than in government ...
, the SCSO had had a contract with Prison Health Services (PHS) to provide medical services to prisoners in its jail. That contract was worth $2.4 million yearly. With the contract expiring on October 1 ...
to provide insufficient staffing levels. Although not identified individually in the report, St. Louis-based Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the state's main provider of medical care, was paid $49.2 ...
to LCS for construction of a 880-bunk private prison. Glower signed a $20,000 campaign ?loan? to Olivarez?s picked successor, former Chief Deputy Sheriff Jimmy Rodriguez, who won the primary but lost ...
bids were submitted, and CMS was awarded the contract over Prison Health Services. The new contract, valued at a not-to-exceed $168 million over two years, went into effect April 1, 2005. The OIG's ...
Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
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