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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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Private Geo Prison in Texas Rocked By Prisoner Abuse, Disturbance and Escape by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Recently, the Newton County Correctional Center (NCCC), a private prison ...
Board of Commissioners Clears PHS In Three Leon County (Florida) Jail Deaths by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg After three jail deaths between May 2003 and October 2004, the Leon County Board of Commissioners met to consider the Sheriff's reports on the three deaths and any implications regarding the …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
., and EMSA--a subsidiary of the infamously inept Prison Health Services (PHS)--in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. She alleged cruel and unusual ...
there also was little regulation of privatized prisoner transportation companies: no regulatory oversight, no standards, no minimum security requirements or enforcement mechanisms to ensure that transport ...
United for the Separation of Church and State has challenged in court the Inner Change program run in an Iowa prison by Charles Colson's Prison Fellowship. In June, 2006, the court held the program ...
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Oklahoma Requires Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies For Ex-Prisoner Suits by The Oklahoma Legislature has enacted a law that prohibits former prisoners from bringing a civil action unless the prisoner has exhausted all administrative remedies. To PLNs knowledge, this is the first law of its kind. The legislation, which was signed …
contractor assuming a state function, was free from liability to Willis. The court noted that in T.C.A. § 47-24-108(b), Tennessee clearly declines to extend sovereign immunity to private prison operators ...
higher than the individual recoveries that can be anticipated in this case. However, those recoveries typically came after trial. The court was aware of at least one substantial judgment against Esmor/CSC ...
restaurant wages, according to Ken Kopczynski, executive director of Private Corrections Institute (PCI), a prison watchdog group. This is a major issue, says Kopczynski. The private prison companies have ...
in private prisons is of special interest to Hawaiian officials. Half of Hawaiis state prisoners--a total of about 1,850--are incarcerated in private prisons in Arizona, Kentucky, Mississippi and Oklahoma ...
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Florida County Bucks Paying $300,000 in Prisoner Medical Bills by Florida's Brevard County has been sued by three local hospitals seeking payment for medical care rendered to prisoners who incurred injuries during their arrests. The County refused to pay, arguing the detainees technically were not in custody at the time …
Physician Services, the jails medical provider. Whitfield alleged her son had made numerous requests for medical attention prior to losing consciousness and that he died due to the defendants failure ...
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
on his left knee; a laceration on his forehead; and other injuries. Cook remained hospitalized for two months. Cook sued the MDOC, numerous guards, and CMS medical personnel under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ...
Armor Correctional Health Services: A New Company Blossoming with Political Payback by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A recently-formed Florida prison healthcare corporation is blossoming ...
California DOC Drug Program Funds Squandered by Marvin Mentor Five California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) employees, testifying under subpoena at a February 27, 2006 State Senate Government Oversight Committee hearing, revealed the use-it-or-lose-it practice of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars allotted to prisoner drug treatment programs on …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
not cause Kings death. The jury therefore awarded no damages. EMSA is a subsidiary of Prison Health Services, which has been implicated in the deaths of prisoners nationwide due to neglect, non-treatment ...
. The decedents estranged wife, Gloria Daniels, sued the County, Grady Memorial, and the now defunct Correctional Healthcare Solutions (CHS), which provided medical care at the jail. The suit, brought in state ...
is the United States' largest operator or privatized prisons and jails. The Nashville-based company was founded in 1983 by Doctor Crants and Thomas Beasley, former chair of the Tennessee Republican party. CCA ...
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
-ownership plan for $13.2 million. Prior to 1998, when it was purchased by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for $225 million, USCC ran four private prisons in Kentucky: Marion County Adjustment Center ...
Audit: California Private Prison Contracting Tainted by Conflicts of Interest by The California State Auditor reported in September 2005 that the California Department of Corrections ...
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