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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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HRDC comments to Surface Transportation Board re PTS merger - Aug. 2016

Publication • August 8, 2016

Filed under: Transport Companies, Transportation, HRDC Publications

by The New York Times and the Marshall Project. That article describes a number of failings and problems with private prisoner transport companies, including the 2012 death of Steven Galack, 46, who died while ...

Outsourcing Responsibility – The Human Cost of Privatized Immigration Detention in Otero County, ACLU NM, 2011

Publication • August 4, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, International, Immigration

prison contractor. MTC further subcontracts for provision of medical services with a private correctional healthcare company, Physicians Network Association. Management and Training Corporation MTC ...

International Growth Trends in Prison Privatization, The Sentencing Project, 2013

Publication • August 3, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Statistics/Trends, International

and that private companies could end up guarding all of Greece’s immigrant detention centers. 27 American private prison companies, including The GEO Group and Management and Training Corporation (MTC), have ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed -9th Amendment, 2016

Publication • August 2, 2016

Filed under: CONMED

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed -9th Amendment, 2016 ...

Prison Privatization - Impacts on Urban Communities , Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2014

Publication • July 29, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Cost of Prison Systems

Prison Privatization - Impacts on Urban Communities , Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2014 APPLES‐TO‐FISH: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PRISON COST COMPARISONS Alex Friedmann * Introduction ...

GEO Group (Formerly Wackenhut) Rap Sheet, AFSC, 2004

Publication • July 29, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contractor Misconduct

” in the reception wing, and escort van drivers were used as officers on other wings” (“Premier’s Ashfield “worst” prison in England and Wales,” Public Private Finance, February 2003). • A special UN envoy in 2002 ...

For-Profit Family Detention, Justice Strategies, 2014

Publication • July 26, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Immigration

. Galindo’s family brought a wrongful death lawsuit against the GEO Group, the Bureau of Prisons, Reeves County, and the prison’s medical services contractor, Physicians Network Association. The ACLU of Texas ...

Warehoused and Forgotten - Immigrants Trapped in Our Private Prison System, ACLU , 2014

Publication • July 26, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Immigration

by ten 200-foot-long Kevlar tents. Three flags fly near the front gate: the Texas flag, the U.S. flag, and a flag emblazoned with the logo of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), the private prison ...

CCA Lawsuits Info

Publication • July 26, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

/4/2002 Settlement Matter Name Nature of Action Access to Co urts Employee Wrongful Termination Howell, Michael W. v. Prison Health Services, et al. CV02-510-S-EJL Medical Adams, Jerry Lee v ...

Technical Proposal - TN DOC, Corizon, 2012

Publication • July 26, 2016

Filed under: Corizon

with Minority Businesses B.15.c.i‐iii. Level of Participation B.15.d. Corizon Diversity – Total Current Employees STATE OF TENNESSEE, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION HEALTH SERVICES RFP # 32901‐31158 PAGE 8 ...

Glover v. CCA, VT, Autopsy Report, wrongful death, 2007

Publication • July 26, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Wrongful Death

Glover v. CCA, VT, Autopsy Report, wrongful death, 2007 GLOVER, LATASHA DORllAN /lfE-C 200'7-500 CO:MMONWEAJ,UJ OF KENTt1CKY Jl1~tice Ca.bil'et OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATE CI,UEF M.EDICAI, EXAMINER Ce.ntralized L~bor~tory Facility 100 Sower Boulevard - Suite 202 Frankfort, Kentucky 4060 I (502) 564-4545 J!JNAL r. flypertensive Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Weight: 480 gm). …

Banking on Bondage Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration, ACLU, 2011

Publication • July 26, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons

Banking on Bondage Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration, ACLU, 2011 BANKING ON BONDAGE Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration NOVEMBER 2011 BANKING ON BONDAGE Private Prisons and Mass ...

10 Things Correctional Nurses Need to Do to End Up in Court, Wild, 2013

Publication • July 12, 2016

Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Private Contractors, Malpractice, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

10 Things Correctional Nurses Need to Do to End Up in Court, Wild, 2013

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2016

Publication • July 11, 2016

Filed under: CONMED

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2016 COOS COUNTY FILING COVER SHEET TO: Coos County Clerk - Filing FROM: Office of Legal Counsel COOS COUNTY. OREGON CJ 2016-000369 ...

Corrections Corporation of America - A Critical Look at Its First Twenty Years, Grassroots Leadership, 2003

Publication • June 30, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

of the total number of U.S. prison beds under private management in mid-2003 was 49.4%, followed by Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (21.0%), Management & Training Corporation (9.2%), Cornell Companies (8.0 ...

Letter to Bill Gates urging the Gates Foundation Trust to divest in GEO Group, Presente, 2014

Publication • June 28, 2016

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut

of their dignity, and leaching precious human capital from already-distressed communities. ! ! GEO Group and other private prisons have a perverse profit motive to drive criminal justice and immigration policy ...

Banking on Detention - 2016 Update, DWN CCR, 2016

Publication • June 28, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Statistics/Trends, Immigration

), and Management and Training Corporation (MTC) operate detention facilities, while other private contractors provide detention-related services. As indicated by the table, GEO has more guaranteed minimums than any ...

Banking on Detention - Local Lockup Quotes and Immigrant Dragnet, DWN CCR, 2015

Publication • June 28, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Statistics/Trends, Immigration

contractors to operate and provide services at immigration jails across the country. Sixty-two percent of immigration detention beds are operated by private prison companies,3 such as Corrections Corporation ...

FDOC and Centurion of Florida Contract Agreement

Publication • June 15, 2016

Filed under: Private Contractors

FDOC and Centurion of Florida Contract Agreement AGREEMENT #A3881 MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND CENTURION OF FLORIDA, LLC This Memorandum of Agreement ...

List of major for-profit prison services and companies

Publication • June 5, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Transport Companies, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Wexford Health Services, Youth Services International, Civigenics, Naphcare, Management and Training Corporation, Emerald Correctional Management, Armor Correctional Health Services, California Forensic Medical Group, MHM Inc., Addus HealthCare, Community Education Centers, LaSalle Management Company, Sentinel, Aramark, Corizon, JPay, Inc., Centurion, G4S/Group 4, Private Contractors

) The GEO Group Management & Training Corp. Community Education Centers LaSalle Corrections Emerald Companies Medical / Mental Health Care Corizon Health (Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Co.) Centurion (Centene ...

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