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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 • 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 …
CCA Pays $400,000 in Suicide Death of Tennessee Juvenile by CCA Pays $400,000 in Suicide Death of Tennessee Juvenile Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $400,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a juvenile who committed suicide at the Shelby Training Center in Tennessee. The …
CCA Pays $120,000 in Stabbing Death of Tennessee Prison Counselor by CCA Pays $120,000 in Stabbing Death of Tennessee Prison Counselor Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $120,000 to settle a lawsuit in the stabbing death of one of its employees, Delbert Steed, at Hardeman County Correctional Facility in Tennessee. …
Article • June 10, 2015
CCA Pays $4,500 for Failure to Treat Tennessee Juvenile Detainee’s Eye Injury by CCA Pays $4,500 for Failure to Treat Tennessee Juvenile Detainee’s Eye Injury Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $4,500 to settle an Eighth Amendment claim brought by a juvenile held at its Silverdale Detention Facilities in Tennessee. …
CCA Pays $1,000 for Failure to Protect Stabbing of Tennessee Prisoner by CCA Pays $1,000 for Failure to Protect Stabbing of Tennessee Prisoner Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $1,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging the negligence of guards resulting in a prisoner being stabbed. Prisoner David Gardner alleged that …
CCA Paid $3,000 Settlement to Prisoner Assaulted with Issued Lock by CCA Paid $3,000 Settlement to Prisoner Assaulted with Issued Lock Correction Corporation of America (CCA) paid $3,000 to settle the lawsuit of Silverdale Correctional Facility prisoner Jeffrey L. Pines who alleged CCA was negligent in issuing a lock that …
CCA and Aramark Pay $2,000 Settlement in Prisoner’s Slip and Fall Suit by CCA and Aramark Pay $2,000 Settlement in Prisoner’s Slip and Fall Suit The Corrections Corporation of America ...
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