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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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Public, Private Prison Escapes in Ohio by Gary Hunter On May 11, 2006, Ohio state prisoner Marrion P. Smith was shot in the head by prison guard Gary Myers during a foiled escape attempt ...
and requiring fees for others. Dean had brought an action to compel the production of documents from various Tennessee Department of Corrections personnel, Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS), and their employees ...
Problematic California Private Prison Sold to San Bernardino County by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In the continuing saga of a troubled private prison in Adelanto, California ...
after an x-ray. After he was returned to his cell, his condition worsened and he died in the hospital from his injuries. The matter was settled by the parties paying as follows: Prison Health Services ...
OK Prisoners' Argument, Raised for First Time on Appeal, Not Considered by On November 15, 2001, Leticia Smedley was arrested by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma on suspicion of being intoxicated. She was jailed at the David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center, a facility operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). …
Escape From TransCor Van Not a Crime in Montana by On January 11, 2006, a Montana state district court set aside two prisoners, convictions for escape and acquitted them after holding that no evidence had been presented that they were in the custody of a peace officer, a requirement for …
Article • December 15, 2007
Wisconsin Jail Heart Attack Case Settled for $25,000 by Waukesha County, Wisconsin, paid a prisoner $25,000 to settle claims related to a heart attack he suffered while imprisoned. Mr. Blavat was denied his prescribed heart medication while confined in Waukesha County Jail, causing him to suffer a heart attack. Blavat …
Continue While State Appeals]. At the time, NCCF was only housing 1,068 Indiana prisoners. Then a private prison company in Texas cancelled its contract to hold 1,500 Arizona prisoners. With a prison ...
Overcrowded Washington DOC’s Solution: Ship ’Em Out of State by David Reutter Overcrowded Washington DOC's Solution: Ship ?Em Out of State by David M. Reutter Overcrowding is pinching the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC). To alleviate that problem, the department ordered less than 100 community supervision violators released without a …
“Please Rip Us Off” Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David Reutter "Please Rip Us Off" Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David M. Reutter Despite having ...
PHS Fails Benchmarks In NYC Jail Medical Contract; Fined $250,000 by Prison Health Services (PHS), nearing the end of its three-year $359.6 million contract to provide medical, dental ...
medical provider, Prison Health Services, has been the subject of numerous previous reports in PLN. [See, e.g.: PLN, Nov. 2006, p.1]. On September 4, 2006, three days after reporting to jail to serve a 26 ...
Development International (MDI), a Florida-based firm that provides similar services to 27 federal Bureau of Prisons facilities. MDI's scheduling efforts reportedly reduced CDCR's medical specialist backlog ...
day, she was raped in retaliation for complaining. She had also alleged that the private contractor's (GEO) guards had "physically and psychologically beat her down," causing her to relapse into a state ...
) worried that this was a bargaining tactic by Gov. Schwarzenegger in their contested labor contract negotiations: knuckle under or kiss your jobs goodbye. Out-of-state private prisons charge California less ...
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: CMS, Medical, Diabetes, Amputations
Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner’s Loss of Foot by Matthew Clarke Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner's Loss of Foot by Matthew T. Clarke In June 2006, CMS ...
$1.6 Million Settlements by PHS and Hillsborough County in Death of Baby Born in Florida Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Inadequate medical care by Prison Health Services (PHS) has ...
(positive) were errantly entered into his medical records by NJDOC?s medical contractor, St. Louis-based Correctional Medical Services (CMS), as ?negative.? When he tried to see his lab results, J.D.A ...
the Legislature to imprison human beings for profit. The lobbyist for the private prison company was James Mitchell, a close Baldacci advisor, campaign contributor, and fundraiser. Department of Corrections ...
mental health evaluation had not been completed following her arrest two days prior to her death. According to Vincent Keane, president of Unity Health Care, the jail?s contract health care provider ...
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