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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 • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
, private prisons are not cost-effective. In the months following its 1999 opening, the Michigan Youth Correctional Facility (MYCF) was criticized over assaults, staff turnover, and suicide attempts. Now ...
with regard to the negligent hiring and vicarious liability claims and denied in all other respects. See: Adorno v. Correctional Services Corp., 312 F.Supp.2d. 505 (S.D.N.Y. 2004). ...
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
California State Auditor Criticizes Prison Outside-Hospital Contract Costs by In a detailed 98 page report to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature, the California State Auditor criticized the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) lax management of contract outside-hospital medical services for CDC prisoners. The July 27, 2004 report observed …
PHS Responsible For Deaths Of New York Prisoners by by Michael Rigby Prison Health Services (PHS) has killed another patient. According to a highly critical 10-page report released ...
, to the extent he sued the corporation CCA, the case could not be brought as a Bivens (403 U.S. 388) action because Bivens does not lie for private corporate defendants (citing Correctional Services Corp. v ...
that the company, Prison Health Services Inc., did not meet standards on practices ranging from H.I.V. and diabetes therapy to the timely distribution of medication to adequately conducting mental health evaluations ...
, John Tanner and Harold Ford, Jr. Tennessee is CCA's home state. Most of the donations were made in states, such as Tennessee, Colorado, Georgia and Florida, where CCA runs private prisons. Another ...
Four Guards Suspended By CCA Following Their Murder of Prisoner in Tennessee Jail by Four Guards Suspended By CCA Following Their Murder of Prisoner in Tennessee Jail by Matthew T. Clarke Four male CCA Guards have been placed on paid administrative leave following their murder of a female prisoner at …
a lot of children who get caught up in the system because they were careless. I'm in that last category." He said this with a straight face despite being convicted of taking kickbacks from a private ...
, private prison company in the world with more than 65,000 prisoners under its control. Despite a long history of scandal, deaths and mismanagement, the company continues to thrive due in large part ...
New Jersey DOC Liable for Prisoner Death Caused by CMS by Robert Woodman by Robert H. Woodman The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, partly affirming a New Jersey prisoner's ...
to November 1998. Rodriguez's complaint alleged he was beat by jail personnel and that EMSA Correctional Care denied him proper medical treatment for his injuries. The defendants moved for summary judgment ...
Center (LAC), a private prison owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) in Lee County, Kentucky. The Prison LAC was built in 1990 as a 400-bed, minimum-security prison ...
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
CMS Liable for Prisoner's Failed Hip Prosthesis; $75,000 Awarded by Robert Woodman by Robert H. Woodman On January 9, 2004 the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri found ...
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
BOP Ad-Seg Rules Create a Liberty Interest by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit court of Appeals has held that BOP administrative segregation policies create a liberty interest. The Court reversed a Georgia federal district court's order granting prison officials' motion to dismiss under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) for …
California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues From Private Prison Contractor by John E Dannenberg California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues From ...
Tough Justice Leads To Quadriplegic's Death In CCA-Operated D.C. Jail by Michael Rigby Tough Justice Leads To Quadriplegic's Death In CCA-Operated D.C. Jail by Michael Rigby Washington D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith E. Retchin is known for being tough on crime. She's so tough, in fact, that when a quadriplegic …
into account the distance from Vermont when rejecting bids from Emerald Correction Management to use a Texas prison and CiviGenics to use a prison in Louisiana. However, the consideration was not to reduce ...
. Also recommended was more private prison monitors and giving the DOC the ability to make private prisons comply with Colorado DOC standards. There were only 33 guards at the prison the day of the riot ...
City Settles In Death of Prisoner at CCA-Operated Tulsa Jail by The City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has agreed to settle its part in a federal lawsuit over the death of a Native American prisoner in the Tulsa Jail. According to the November 7, 2003 settlement, the city will pay the …
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