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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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, but by then it was too late; Loadholt was dead. SCOC Commissioner Frederick C. Lamy blamed the jail’s healthcare provider. “Loadholt’s asthma was inadequately managed by [Corizon precursor] Prison Health ...
only to the extent the appeal rested on legal rather than factual grounds. The defendants were employees of Corizon, a private contractor that provided medical services to prisoners at the Cumberland ...
Strip Searches of Female Visitors on Their Menstrual Period Addressed at CCA Shareholder Meeting by Strip Searches of Female Visitors on Their Menstrual Period Addressed at CCA Shareholder Meeting Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison company, held its annual shareholder meeting in Nashville, Tennessee on May …
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal district court held on November 4, 2014 that medical care contractor Corizon Health has to produce mortality and sentinel event reviews in a class-action suit filed by prisoners ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
Private Prison Corporation GEO Group Expands its Stable of Former Top Federal Officials by Darwin Bond-Graham Private Prison Corporation GEO Group Expands its Stable of Former Top Federal ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
of the contractor, Sentinel Offender Services, failing “to abide by the limited statutory authority granted.” Next, the Supreme Court held the practice of tolling a misdemeanant’s probation sentence ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
employees, but a private contractor, Corizon, provided physician services. As a money-saving measure, no Corizon doctors were present at the facility after 4 p.m. or on weekends. A physician assistant had ...
was fined multiple times for staff vacancies.   Sources: Tucson Sentinel, Tucson Weekly, www.kpho.com ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
– the nation’s second-largest private prison company – was called out by the “Greenwashing the Gulags” social media campaign for announcing that they had taken advantage ...
Brief • July 7, 2015
Tellez v. GEO Grp, TX, Amended Complaint, 2015 jg: CaseI4odor,bIg 5:15-cv-00465-RCL Document 6 Filed 07/27/15 Page 1 of 2 FILED -JUL27 [1 2015 If STERNCTOF TEXAS 0 V1o5 V IV 1 kJi. o,JAJO, SII /5-CI9 pJ/ 1I ormñ P L iSDocwexIf iWfa +Me,n&iJ, sh0ii All f/ IiimM-e ACCOLIAVI- aoxdia-i'J YouLf401Jf7r …
Corizon Abandons Kentucky Jail Contract in Wake of Death and Lawsuits by David Reutter Corizon Abandons Kentucky Jail Contract in Wake of Death and Lawsuits By David Reutter In the wake ...
Article • July 1, 2015
Allegheny County Doctor Files Complaint against Corizon over Hiring Practices by David Reutter Allegheny County Doctor Files Complaint against Corizon over Hiring Practices by David Reutter ...
OF SERVICE Rebekah H. Parker, an attorney, hereby certifies that, on July 1, 2015, she caused a true and correct copy of the foregoing to be filed electronically with the Court’s CM/ECF system, and that notice ...
Article • June 20, 2015
; Previously, CCA’s Eloy facility was fined multiple times for staff vacancies.   Sources: Tucson Sentinel, Tucson Weekly, www.kpho.com LIST OF DEATHS IN CCA Immigration Detention Facilities ...
Detention Center in Tacoma, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors prepared to sell it. By July 2005, Correctional Services Corp. had agreed to sell all of its facilities and contracts ...
No State Medical Privilege in § 1983 Actions; CCA Compelled to Provide Discovery by No State Medical Privilege in § 1983 Actions; CCA Compelled to Provide Discovery by Mark Wilson A Tennessee federal court refused to “recognize the state peer review privilege” in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, and …
Article • June 12, 2015
Model Immigrant Detention Center Dehumanizing and Wasteful by Model Immigrant Detention Center Dehumanizing and Wasteful Americans for Immigrant Justice (AI Justice) released a report that details the stories of persons detained at the Broward Transition Center (BTC) to exhibit how that facility needlessly detains immigrants in inhumane conditions, wasting millions …
Article • June 11, 2015
Texas, Amidst Budget Crisis, May Not Renew Some Private Prison Contracts by Matthew Clarke Texas, Amidst Budget Crisis, May Not Renew Some Private Prison Contracts By Matt Clarke John ...
Article • June 10, 2015
$20,000 Settlement in CCA’s Failure to Treat Tennessee Prisoner’s Ankle Injury by $20,000 Settlement in CCA’s Failure to Treat Tennessee Prisoner’s Ankle Injury Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $20,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging It failed to provide proper medical care for a prisoner at the Metro-Davidson County Detention …
CCA Pays $6,000 Settlement in Dangerous Conditions Causing Tennessee Prisoner’s Slip and Fall by CCA Pays $6,000 Settlement in Dangerous Conditions Causing Tennessee Prisoner’s Slip and Fall Corrections Corporation of America paid $6,184.71 to settle a claim brought by Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility prisoner James A. Reese, who alleged negligence …
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