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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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by Cornell Companies Inc., a private contractor. It's unknown if Berry has molested any of the children at those prisons. Sources: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, AP ...
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Private Prisons Bilk $13 million From Florida; State Awards More Contracts by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida's Correctional Privatization Commission (CPC) consistently failed ...
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone Revenues Sues California DOC by Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone ...
to influence the state to expand its use of private prisons, in November 2004 the Geo Group had hired former California Finance Director Donna Arduin ten days after she left her top-level job overseeing all ...
. In a related transaction, CSC CEO James Slattery agreed to buy back the company's juvenile services division, Youth Services International (YSI), for $3.75 million and will continue to operate YSI's 17 juvenile ...
was then taken to the Schenectady County Jail to be seen by a nurse employed at that facility by EMSA Correctional Care [later bought out by Prison Health Services (PHS)]. The nurse placed him on the medical tier ...
definitions of what constitutes largest, the company with the most market share is constantly changing. At any given time either CMS or its rival Prison Health Services (PHS) will be the largest" private prison ...
Louisiana's 2002 Exhaustion Requirement (Act 89) Not Retroactive by The Louisiana Supreme Court held that retroactive application of a 2002 law, requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies by prisoners before bringing a state tort action, would unconstitutionally deprive prisoners of a vested right. Therefore, the court held that the law has …
Beach, Florida, demanding access to public records held by the company. The Geo Group is a for-profit company that operates privatized prisons, including two Florida prisons, and its contract-based fees ...
prisoner complaint against the CCA facility at Youngstown, Ohio, finding the complaint did state a claim of municipal liability against the District of Columbia who contracted with the Ohio-based private ...
Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period …
out of office two months after the restraining chair incident, McCotter became a prison consultant and an executive for Management Training Corporation, a Utah-based private prison company. Meanwhile ...
to death. LCF is a private prison run by GEO Group, Inc. Stiles was serving 10 years for possession of contraband. His cell partner, Robert M. Cooper, 32, who is serving life without parole for a first ...
Jr., D-Brownsville, who has worked for three prison contractors. Over about four years, Corplan Corrections of Argyle, Texas; Management and Training Corporation (MTC) of Utah; and Aguirre Corporation ...
a lawsuit over misuse of the employee stock-ownership plan for $13.2 million. Prior to 1998, when it was purchased by Corrections Corporation of America for $225 million, USCC ran four private prisons ...
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Higher Property Tax Collections Permit 25% Growth Of Los Angeles County Jail Capacity by by John E. Dannenberg A six percent increase in property tax collections due to soaring real estate prices will add an estimated $150 million to Los Angeles County coffers in the coming year. County supervisors have …
Guards Rape, Sexually Harass and Smuggle at Colorado Prisons by by Matthew T. Clarke There are new troubles at several prisons in Colorado. At a 250-bed GRW-run private prison in Brush ...
Guards employed by private contractors that operate Florida juvenile justice programs earn some of the lowest wages in the nation. The result is high turnover, which causes untrained and unqualified ...
Article • October 15, 2005
headquarters in order to more closely monitor its interests. Since its inception, Wackenhut Corrections has become one of the three largest private prison contractors in the nation, with 49 prisons in 13 states ...
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