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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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Class Action Challenges Treatment of Florida's "Sexual Predator" Civil Detainees by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal class action has been filed in the Federal District Court in Ft. Myers by eight residents of the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC), seeking to enforce their rights to mental health …
charges were horrifically abused and murdered while falsely imprisoned by the U.S. in Iraq. See: Saleh v. Titan Corp., USDC SD CA, Case No. 04-CV-1143R (NLS). The suit was primarily filed under the Alien ...
California Private Prison Uprisings Kill 2, Injure 66 by Marvin Mentor Interracial prison riots occurred on October 27 and December 3, 2003 in two southern California privately-contracted ...
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness by Tara Herivel Human Rights Watch, 2003, 215 pp. Reviewed by Tara Herivel [In the interests of full disclosure, the author of this review contributed to the following Human Rights Watch Report as a source, and this magazine contributed to the gathering …
director of the Arizona Department of Corrections (1995-2002) and as a consultant for the private prison firm Advanced Correctional Management. According to Donna Hamm, founder and Executive Director ...
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
, adequately monitor blood sugar levels, treat injuries or infections, or administer necessary tests to evaluate whether the disease was causing other problems. That medical contractor, NaphCare, Inc., has ...
, and a preventable heart attack are just a few of the problems Tennessee prisoners have faced while in the care of private contractors. In September 2003, three unidentified prisoners were infected ...
CCA Medical Contract Doesn't Violate 8th Amendment by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated an injunction holding a contract between Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and a private doctor; Dr. Robert B. Coble, was unconstitutional. The contract at issue required Dr. Coble to, among other things, "determine the …
office in September 2003, reveals problems with prison staffing, pre-release preparation, and numerous instances of contract violations by private prison contractors. A major problem revealed ...
eight months after they arrived, all Idaho prisoners were removed and no attempt was ever made to send more. SLCC is run by Louisiana Correctional Services (LCS) Inc. LCS was founded 13 years ago ...
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
Filed under: Private Prisons, Probation
to the Legislature's Corrections Oversight Committee which cited other questionable practices including: a court clerk who used his position to supply clients to a spouse's private prison company; a Memphis private ...
bond underwriter), Emerald Correctional Management, (a Shreveport, Louisiana-based private prison operator), and Corplan, Inc, (a Dallas architectural firm), filed suit against Rodriguez claiming his ...
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
of Corrections (VDOC), where Corrections Medical Service (CMS) provides health care under contract to VDOC. Baker sued the District of Columbia, BOP officials, GCC officials, and six medical personnel ...
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
headquarters in order to more closely monitor its interests. The company is now named The Geo Group. Since its inception, Wackenhut Corrections has become one of the three largest private prison contractors ...
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Jersey and Michigan contract their state prison medical program to for-profit Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), based in St. Louis, Missouri. The tension of this arrangement is obvious: states ...
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews
and indifference, suicides and homicides. By the end of Capitalist Punishment, one cannot seriously doubt its claim that the private prison "industry has actually produced a much worse record of deprivation ...
of the prisons in July 2001 after refusing to pay for increased operating costsbut the problems persist. Medical Care Medical care at the prisons, which is provided by Correctional Medical Services (CMS ...
incarcerated. During booking at the Camden County Correctional Facility (CCCF), Natale was seen by employees of Prison Health Services (PHS), a private company providing health care services at CCCF. Natale ...
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Dismissal Sanction for Prisoner's Refusal to Be Deposed Without Court Order Reversed by Dismissal Sanction for Prisoner's Refusal to be Deposed Without Court Order Reversed The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that considering a prisoner's refusal to be deposed absent a court order, as a factor to enter a …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
. "The theoretical proposition that privatization is always better is not necessarily true," Hersch insists. Don't feel bad Jay, PLN has been saying that about private prisons for years. Source: Richmond Times ...
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