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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 • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Ohio Appellate Court Orders Review of State Budget Over Private Prison Sale by Gary Hunter Ohio Appellate Court Orders Review of State Budget Over Private Prison Sale by Gary Hunter Ohio ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Incentive Motive for Denial of Medical Care; $325,000 Settlement by David Reutter A Pennsylvania federal district court ordered medical personnel employed by Correctional Medical Care, Inc. (CMC) to face ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
release that announced the filing of his bill that the private prison industry generates billions of dollars in annual revenues and employs teams of lobbyists to persuade government officials to continue ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
health services contracts as a result. [See: PLN, Oct. 2015, p.20; March 2014, p.1]. Further, the IDOC had previously sanctioned Corizon for substandard medical care, levying fines totaling $270,000 ...
Brief • October 25, 2015
Menocal et al v. GEO Group, CO, Docket, DHS ICE immigration forced labor minimum wage, 2015 Case: 1:14-cv-2887 As of: 10/25/2015 08:30 PM MDT 1 of 8 MJ CIV PP U.S. District Court District of Colorado (Denver) CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:14−cv−02887−JLK Menocal et al v. The GEO Group, …
Article • October 23, 2015
Florida City Can Deny Water Service to CCA Site Outside its Boundaries by Florida City Can Deny Water Service to CCA Site Outside its Boundaries Florida’s Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court held that the City of Pembroke Pines has no duty to provide water and sewage services to a site owned …
Article • October 21, 2015
Filed under: Private Prisons
Private Prisons: Just Bit Players in Mass Incarceration by James Kilgore Private Prisons: Just Bit Players in Mass Incarceration by James Kilgore      &nbsp ...
capacity, CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS, VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, and ANDREW PALLITO, COMMISSIONER OF DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, in his individual and official capacity, Defendants ...
5, a copy of Plaintiff Craig D. Rice's First Amended Complaint was filed using the Cou1t's CM/ECF system. A paper copy of the First Amended Complaint and Summons was served on Defendants Wexford ...
. "Research to date on private prisons has found that they perform no better than publicly operated facilities, are not guaranteed to reduce correctional costs, and provide an incentive for increasing ...
Article • October 15, 2015
Federal Court Denies Former Prisoner Right to Catholic Television by Federal Court Denies Former Prisoner Right to Catholic Television The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s equal protection suit as frivolous. Raymond Gutierrez, a California prisoner housed at …
Article • October 14, 2015
Nevada: Incorrect Analysis of Fact and Law is Harmless Error in Denying Motion for New Trial by Nevada: Incorrect Analysis of Fact and Law is Harmless Error in Denying Motion for New Trial The Nevada Supreme Court held that a trial court abused its discretion by wrongly categorizing a fact …
, being held beyond their release date for this very reason. The irony here is that VDOC is so overcrowded that it pays $17 million annually to house up to 660 prisoners in private prisons in Kentucky ...
Article • October 9, 2015
is governed by minimal federal guidelines. Prisoner transportation companies are required to notify local law enforcement only if they have a scheduled stop in that state. They are also required to conduct ...
ofAmerica Inc., and Corizon, Inc., No. 1:13-cv-0 1118-JB-LAM, which was pending before the United States District CoU11for the Disttict of New Mexico. In consideration for $72,500.00 and in exchange ...
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
PLN Settles Censorship Suit against GEO Group at Indiana Prison by PLN Settles Censorship Suit against GEO Group at Indiana Prison In August 2015, Prison Legal News settled a federal lawsuit against The GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest for-profit prison company, over First Amendment violations at the New Castle Correctional …
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
CCA Prison in Ohio Loses BOP Contract by CCA Prison in Ohio Loses BOP Contract The privately-owned Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NOCC) in Youngstown no longer holds prisoners for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) after the federal agency declined to renew its contract with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). According …
with disabilities.” [See: PLN, June 2014, p.1]. The defendants, including the County of Monterey, Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG), filed motions to dismiss ...
, providing beds for up to 3,340 prisoners. Two of these facilities are privately owned and operated by GEO Group, one of the U.S.’s largest private prison operators. The San ...
Article • September 24, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
care. CMA of NY has the same corporate address as Brentwood, Tennessee-based Corizon, and prior to 2012, CDA of NY was registered as PHS Dental Services, Inc. PHS, or Prison Health Services ...
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