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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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Brief • February 13, 2023
Filed under: Corizon, Bankruptcy
Tehum DBA Corizon Health Services, Inc.-Voluntary Petition for Filing Bankruptcy, 2023 Case 23-90086 Document 1 Filed in TXSB on 02/13/23 Page 1 of 8 Fill in this information to identify the case ...
. Greg Abbott (R), relies on private contractors to run the treatment centers. But as noted by KLBK in Lubbock, the “treatment program is not clearly defined by legislators, and it leaves room ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
’s Bucks County Correctional Facility (BCCF), the county has agreed to pay a total of $959,000. Its privately contracted jail healthcare provider, PrimeCare Medical, reportedly agreed to pay another ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Investigation Reveals “Black Market in Broad Daylight” for Prison Food by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart No one in prison expects to eat fine cuisine. The food served is merely intended to keep prisoners alive, with no thought given to how much it is or isn’t enjoyed. Yet certain people …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
. Knowlton, Powers filed suit in federal court for the District of Arizona against DOC Director David Shinn and other officials, as well as Corizon Health, Centurion of Arizona, MHM Health Professionals ...
, in a case accusing private prison giant CoreCivic of a Tennessee prisoner’s wrongful death, a federal magistrate judge issued a gag order restricting public comments on the case made by Plaintiff&rsquo ...
Brief • January 30, 2023
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Marler v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2023 01/30/2023 12:25 PM FAX 5752573812 FIRST NATIONAL BANK Ii!] 0002/0010 ...
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
lawsuit alleging that private prison operator The GEO Group misled investors in its stock, causing them to suffer losses. For the last three decades, GEO Group has contracted with the Federal Bureau ...
ACLU Accepts $37,500 Settlement Over Redacted Records From New Mexico Prison Healthcare Provider by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Wexford Health Sources had been sued over 50 times in just four years when the state of New Mexico terminated the firm’s contract to provide healthcare to state prisons. That was …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Centurion, Failure to Treat
-fungal medication to stave off a relapse of Valley Fever. He returned to the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson, just as DOC changed over to Centurion from its previous healthcare provider, Corizon ...
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
$450,000 Settlement to Illinois Prisoner Whose Untreated Boil Left Him Paraplegic by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On August 17, 2021, after the IllinoisDepartment of Corrections (DOC) paid $450,000 to settle claims of medical neglect that cost him the use of his legs, a state prisoner successfully petitioned a federal …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
demand for payment of $1.9 million to Utah-based private prison operator Management and Training Corporation (MTC) for violating its contractual agreement to fully staff the Marshall County Correctional ...
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
with privately operated detention facilities. DOJ is the parent agency of both the federal Bureau of Prisons, which uses no private prisons, and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), which uses nothing else. The order ...
Brief • December 30, 2022
Filed under: JPay, Inc., Telephone Rates
Linear v. Securus Technologies Dba Jpay LLC, WA, Statement of Claims, Unfair Charges, 2022 1 2 3 4 5 AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION 6 7 MICHAEL LINEAR, 8 9 10 11 12 NO. 01-22-0000-3053 Claimant, CLAIMANT MICHAEL LINEAR’S STATEMENT OF CLAIMS AND DAMAGES v. SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, d.b.a. JPAY, LLC, Defendant. 13 …
Brief • December 21, 2022
Deherrera v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2022 Centurion 002963 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ...
Brief • December 14, 2022
Baker v. Jimenez, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2022 Centurion 003014 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT TIIlS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ...
Article • December 5, 2022
, reports by NaphCare, the Alabama-based private company providing health care to FCJ’s 3,000 detainees and prisoners, revealed widespread neglect of those in his unit, who are among the jail’s ...
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
to provide healthcare to state prisoners. But just four months later, a new law took effect. Arizona 2011 HB 2154 mandated privatization of all prison healthcare services. Private contractor Wexford Health ...
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But that court noted that “Oregon courts have yet to address whether a private contractor like Corizon constitutes a ‘place of public accommodation ...
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
to two state prisons in the region — one built in 1990 and the other in 2005 — Kentucky has also just reopened a private prison, leasing it from CoreCivic to house state prisoners. This recent ...
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