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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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Texas: Sexually Assaulted Boot Camp Prisoners Awarded $2,800,000 Against CSC

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Correctional Services Corp., Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Boot Camps, Immunity/Liability, Supervisory Liability

Texas: Sexually Assaulted Boot Camp Prisoners Awarded $2,800,000 Against CSC by On December 12, 2001 three former female prisoners who claimed they were sexually assaulted while imprisoned in a privately operated boot camp in Mansfield, Texas were awarded a total of $2,800,000 against the camp's operator. Plaintiffs, Keri Echols Chattha, …

CCA Settles Wrongful Death Suit in Texas For $60,000

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Medication, Contractor Liability, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

CCA Settles Wrongful Death Suit in Texas For $60,000 by In 1998, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $60,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the father of a prisoner who died from a drug overdose at a CCA-operated prison. Hugh Wayne Martin, a Texas state prisoner, was transferred to …

Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Suit Against Prison Contractor

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Private Prisons, Cornell Corrections, Failure to Protect (General), Eleventh Amendment Immunity

prison operator should not have been dismissed on Eleventh Amendment immunity grounds. While confined in a prison operated by Cornell Corrections Corporation (CCC), Charles Akomolafe Abayomi was attacked ...

Family of Texas Prisoner Murdered in Geo-Operated Prison Awarded $47.5 Million

Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)

of a prisoner who was murdered at a private prison operated by the Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections). The Florida-based company was spun off from Wackenhut's parent corporation in 2003 [see PLN, June ...

GEO Buys CSC After Settling $38.8 Million Judgment in Texas Boot Camp Death

Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006

Filed under: Private Prisons, Esmor/CSC, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Financing, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

, and South Africa. James Slattery, CSCs founder, will continue running Youth Services International--which manages 1,300 beds at 17 juvenile prisons--from CSCs home base of Sarasota, Florida. Slattery paid ...

Rebellion at CCA Prison in Texas

Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Rebellion

Rebellion at CCA Prison in Texas by On August 27, 2005, a riot involving hundreds of prisoners broke out in a private prison run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) in Mineral Wells ...

Federal Prison Problematic For Texas Officials

Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Informants

Jr., D-Brownsville, who has worked for three prison contractors. Over about four years, Corplan Corrections of Argyle, Texas; Management and Training Corporation (MTC) of Utah; and Aguirre Corporation ...

Texas Prison Expert Pays the Price for Telling the Truth

Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Government Misconduct, Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Staffing, State Legislation

analysis found that private prison guards were paid 28% to 37% less than state prison guards. Many of the legislators have been fighting for years to improve the pay of Texas guardswho are among the lowest ...

Wackenhut Settles Suit Over Premature Birth for $98,000

Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, OB/GYN, Failure to Treat, Family, Mothers in Prison

Wackenhut Settles Suit Over Premature Birth for $98,000 by On August 12, 2004, Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, now known as GEO Group, Inc., settled a suit alleging that inadequate medical care at a 640-bed Wackenhut-run jail caused a prisoner to give birth prematurely. Melissa Villarreal, 32, a former prisoner at the …

CCA Pays House Majority Leader’s Personal Charity $100,000

Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Elections, Lobbying, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Crime, Conspiracy

, 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 ...

Prisons, Profits and Prophets

Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Rebellion, Religious Freedom, Required Religious Programming, Proselytizing

Prisons, Profits and Prophets by Bill Berkowitz The nation's largest private prison corporation is joining forces with conservative faith-based ministries by Bill Berkowitz In an era ...

Controversy and Lawsuits Surround South Texas Private Prison Deals

Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004

Filed under: Private Prisons, Financing, Emerald Correctional Management, Contractor Misconduct, Judiciary, Disclosure of Records

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 ...

Court Questions Federal Assault Conviction on Private Prison Guard

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

Court Questions Federal Assault Conviction on Private Prison Guard by Court Questions Federal Assault Conviction on Private Prison Guard In a case applicable to all federal pris-oners ...

$40.1 Million Verdict Against CSC in Texas Prisoner's Medical Neglect Death

Article • February 15, 2004 • from PLN February, 2004

Filed under: Esmor/CSC, Contractor Misconduct, Medical Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Medical, Respiratory, Criminal Prosecution, Boot Camps, Damages, Appeals, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

in the death of a boot camp prisoner, plus $5.1 million in punitive damages, against Florida-based Correctional Services Corp. (CSC) and their nurse Knyvett Reyes. The August 27, 2003 $40.1 million verdict ...

Sentences Upheld for TransCor Driver Who Raped and Terrorized Prisoners

Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Transport Companies, Criminal Prosecution, Conditions of Confinement, Transportation, Restraints

. Michael Jerome Edwards was a driver for TransCor America, a private prisoner transport company owned by Corrections Corporation of America. The victim was arrested in Corpus Christi, Texas ...

DeLay/TRMPAC Indictments Include Cornell Contributions

Article • December 15, 2003

Filed under: Financing, Cornell Corrections, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Elections, Lobbying, Crime

, Tennessee ($25,000); Bacardi USA, Florida ($20,000); Questerra. Corp., Virginia ($25,000); and Cornell Companies, Inc., Texas ($10,000)--the third-largest private prison corporation in the U.S., which ...

Cornell Half Way House Employees Charged with Drug Trafficking

Article • December 15, 2003

Filed under: Work Release, Cornell Corrections, Contractor Misconduct, Drug Testing, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Crime

Cornell Half Way House Employees Charged with Drug Trafficking by The Ben Reid Community Correctional Facility in northeast Houston is run by Houston-based Cornell Companies, Inc., under a $4.8 million contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In May, 2004, Roy Thomas, 50, Ben Reid's director of employee training, …

Court Reporter Jailed for Botching VitaPro Trial Transcripts; Convicted Prison Chief Still Free

Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003

Filed under: Financing, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Food, Civil Procedure, Transcripts

Graham as a VitaPro broker. The resulting investigation of the VitaPro contracts resulted in the charges against Collins and Barry. Graham also involved in the failed N-Group private prison venture ...

Wackenhut's Legacy of Shame in Austin

Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Retaliation, Retaliation against Staff, Skeletal Injury, Injury -- Misc., Failure to Protect (General), Staffing, Education, Employee Litigation

it as a private prison. Just ten days into his incarceration at TCCJC, Prater made an understandable mistake. He requested that gang members, who were holding a conversation in painfully loud, screaming voices ...

CSC: More Misery and Misfortune

Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Esmor/CSC, Contractor Misconduct, State Legislation

. In 1999, CSC merged with Youth Services International (YSI), a leading provider of developmental, educational, and rehabilitative programs for troubled juveniles. The YSI merger made CSC the country's ...

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