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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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Tennessee Private Prison Gets State’s First LGBTQ+ Group by As reported in Filter Magazine on July 26, 2023, Tennessee’s South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) has become ...
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
VitalCore Health Strategies to provide healthcare in state prisons. Wellpath corporate predecessor Correct Care Solutions (CCS) held the contract from 2010 to 2015. Then Centurion took over until 2018, after ...
down a suit by private prison giant CoreCivic which sought to weaponize anti-defamation law against one of the company’s more vocal critics. As previously reported by PLN, CoreCivic took exception ...
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Wexford Faces Liability for Indiana Prisoner’s Delayed Specialist Referral by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 3, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana only partly granted a motion for summary judgment filed by prison medical profiteer Wexford Health Sources, Inc. and its employees …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
v. JPAY, Inc., 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34380 (C.D. Cal.). Florida-based JPay is owned by Texas-based Securus Technologies and its parent, Aventiv Technologies, which in turn is owned by California-based ...
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Naphcare’s Lack of Care Leads to $26.75 Million Verdict for Washington Jail Death by “The jury sent a strong message that Naphcare’s conduct was completely unacceptable,&rdquo ...
contractor CoreCivic – the massive private prison operator formerly known as Corrections Corp. of America – of failure to protect him from being stabbed by other prisoners. Due to his blindness ...
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
No Summary Judgment for Private Transportation Company in Maryland Detainee’s Suit Alleging “Horrific” 2,000-Mile Journey by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Over nine days in December 2015 ...
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Insider Trading Charges Dropped Against JPay Founder by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 5, 2022, federal prosecutors moved to dismiss insider trading charges against JPay founder Ryan Shapiro, 45. For a hefty fee, the firm provides financial and communications services to people incarcerated in jail and prisons. JPay …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Corizon Bankruptcy Stalls Suit By Alleged Rape Victims of Rikers Island Guard by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A group of women who claimed they were raped by a physician’s assistant ...
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Corizon Executes “Texas Two-Step,” Spinning Off Debt Into Bankrupt New Firm to Avoid Paying Creditors and Lawsuit Winners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Corizon Heath, Inc. has engaged ...
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108370 (E.D. Wash.). Southeast Arkansas Community Correction Center In another case against another Wellpath corporate predecessor, Correct Care Solutions (CCS), for the death ...
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion
healthcare contractor effective July 25, 2023. County Manager Julie Morgas Baca sent word to YesCare – the corporate descendant of Corizon Health – on January 26, 2023, pulling the plug two years ...
Detainee Dies After Two Days in Florida Jail Where Armor Correctional Allegedly Denied Heart Transplant Rejection Meds by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Dexter Barry, 54, waited 12 years to receive a new heart. He even moved to Jacksonville to receive the life-saving transplant in 2020. In just …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
therapy. Coe eventually filed suit in the Court on November 28, 2017. Proceeding under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, he accused Pearson and her employer, DOC healthcare contractor Wexford Health Services ...
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Wellpath Subsidiary Out of Australian Women’s Prison After Indigenous Prisoner’s Death by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 19, 2023, Corrections Minister Enver Erdogan announced that the Australian state of Victoria is booting the private healthcare contractor from the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC). Effective July 1, 2023, Wellpath …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Federal Courts Throw Out Smart Communications’ Mail-Scanning Patent by Robert Schaeffer by K. Robert Schaeffer On October 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted judgment on the pleadings to Rutherford County and VendEngine, Inc., the contractor that digitizes prisoner mail in its jail, in …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
of drugs that cause uterine contractions. These contractions can be more painful than those of spontaneous labor and carry a higher risk of soft tissue tears. NaphCare, the Alabama-based private firm ...
Armor Correctional Healthcare Denies Liability in Detainee’s Death From Missed Medication at Duval County Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a statement to a local Jacksonville news station on June 6, 2023, the healthcare provider for at the Duval County Jail denied wrongdoing in the death of a …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Corizon Bankruptcy Threatens $6.4 Million Award to Family of Michigan Prisoner Whose Five-Day Jail Term Turned Into Death Sentence by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On December 5, 2022 ...
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