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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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Green-Vaughn v. CCA, TN, Complaint, transfer injury car accident, 2012 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0317 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0318
wrote, “My resolution could not be filed with any other company outside the private prison industry because in no other industry do a company’s employees consistently engage in rape and sexual abuse ...
Tennessee CCA Warden Denied Summary Judgment for Excessive Force by A Tennessee federal court denied a private prison warden summary judgment on an excessive force claim for assaulting ...
Jury Awards $13,000 in Tennessee CCA False Imprisonment Suit by A Tennessee federal court awarded $13,000 to Samuel Key for civil rights violations resulting from his false imprisonment. The case began in 1987, when Key was convicted and sentenced to prison in Georgia. During that time, a phony escape charge …
contract with the State, the scope of records considered to be public is somewhat limited by the Private Prison Contracting Act at Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-24-117. This rationale is consistent with the plain ...
issued a bench ruling directing Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm, to produce records in a long-standing public records lawsuit filed against the company ...
Cross v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Complaint, CCA guards allowed inmate assault, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0309 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0310 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0311
prisons in Tennessee from January 2009 to June 2011, incident rates were consistently higher at the state’s three private prisons. Those were the findings released on October 18, 2011 by the Private ...
Clemons v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Complaint, CCA medical neglect pregnant inmate infant death, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0384 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0385 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0386 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0387 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0388 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0389 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0390 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0391 CCA-AF (6/2/14 …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
following an escape from one of the company’s private prisons. On April 2, 2007, prisoner Billy Jack Fitzmorris, held at the CCA-run Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, was taken to a hospital in Youngstown ...
Publication • November 9, 2011
Filed under: Corizon
  change has been instituted to reflect the merger of the CMS parent company, Valitás Health Services,  Inc. (Valitás), with America Service Group Inc. (ASG), the parent company of Prison Health Services ...
equivalent of a state agency." Id. at 378. Nonetheless, the Court went on to hold that 12 because this facility is governed by the Private Prison Contracting Act, public access to the facility's records ...
Gooch v. Buford et al, TN, Complaint, CCA inadequate medical care indifference, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0343 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0344 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0345 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0346 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0347 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0348 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0349
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
, Tennessee-based private prison transport company TransCor America for transporting prisoners more than 24 continuous hours without giving them an opportunity to rest overnight in a bed. The class action suit ...
Tennessee: Private Prison Guards Considered “Public Servants” by Employees of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison company, are public servants ...
Gardner v. Easterling, TN, Complaint, CCA 8th Am death strangled by cell mate, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0297 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0298 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0299 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0300 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0301 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0302
The TDOC contracts with Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a private prison company, to operate three facilities that house state prisoners. Tennessee law requires CCA to purchase ...
Williams v. CCA, TN, Complaint, prison work injury kitchen, 2010 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0222 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0223 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0224
prison commissaries), Wexford Health Sources, Correctional Medical Services and Prison Health Services. Several private prison officials stopped by the PCI booth, which was manned by Friedmann and PCI ...
Chesnut v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Complaint, CCA prisoner escapee shot police, 2009 IN THE ________ CIRCUIT COURT OF DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE MARK CHESNUT and MICHELLE CHESNUT, a husband and wife, ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) ) CORRECTIONS CORPORATION ) OF AMERICA d/b/a …
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