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.
For any type of search, click on the magnifying glass icon to enter one or more keywords, and you can refine your search criteria using "More search options." Note that searches for "CCA" and "Corrections Corporation of America" will return different results.
Warden Fired over Riot at New Mexico CCA Prison by Warden Fired Over Riot at New Mexico CCA Prison Corrections Corporation of America officials fired the warden and chief of security at the Torrence County (New Mexico) Detention Facility just three weeks after a November 11, 2000 prisoner uprising involving …
CCA Faulted in Texas Jail Escape by Staff shortages, unwatched video surveillance monitors, unlocked doors, untrained staff and a security alarm that was ignored by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) employees contributed to the August 27, 2000 escape from the Bartlett State Jail near Austin, Texas. Sixteen problems, the biggest …
Corrections Corporation of America Hit with $3 Million Abuse Verdict by Lonnie Burton On Dec 14, 2000, a federal jury in South Carolina awarded a 14-year-old boy more than $3 million in damages after finding Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) guilty of physically abusing the Charleston, SC teen-ager. In …
Texas Prisoner Raped By Wackenhut Guard Entitled To Discovery Protection by An appeals court in Texas has held that, under the Texas rape victims shield laws, Rule 412, 509(c)(1) and 510(b)(1), Texas Rules of Evidence, a prisoner who was raped by a guard and is suing Wackenhut may not be …
African prisons are desperately overcrowded, so in 1997, the government began soliciting bids to build and manage four privateprisons.
Wackenhut and its local partners, incorporated as South African
...
Deadly Nostalgia: The Politics of Boot Camps by Christian Parenti The short, stout eighth grader Gina Score, was never much of an athlete. But that didn't matter to the staff at South Dakota's Plankinton boot camp for girls, where militarystyle discipline and calisthenics were the modus operandi and, as staff …
that prison response teams used tear gas to bring the situation under control.
The North Fork facility is a privateprison ooperated by Corrections Corporation of America. Susan Hart, spokeswoman for CCA
...
by the county for being understaffed.
CMS is the nation's largest private "correctionalhealthservices" corporation [See: "Dying for Profits," PLN, Dec. 2000]. EMSA is a subsidiary of Nashville
...
Work Stoppage at Idaho CCA Prison by Five weeks after it opened, the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), went on lockdown following a non-violent protest by prisoners there. Corrections Corporation of America operates the $50 million 1,250-bed prison. In early July 2000, CCA began moving Idaho prisoners from its New Mexico …
) to provide health care to prisoners. CMS, in turn, subcontracted mental health care to CorrectionalBehavioralSolutions of New Jersey, Inc. (CBS) while maintaining control over medical evaluations, lab
...
Louisiana Abandons Private Juvenile Prisons by The state of Louisiana agreed to a settlement in federal court September 7, 2000 designed to radically alter the way it operates its juvenile prisons. The agreement was intended to settle several lawsuits against the state, including one by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, …
at the Nobel Correctional Institution (NCI).
In October, 1998, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) awarded a two-year contract to ARAMARK Correctional Services, a private company
...
The Prison Payoff: The Role of Politics and PrivatePrisons in the Incarceration Boom
by
A report published by the Western Prison Project and the Western States Center. The report
...
Tide Turns Against Prison Privatization
by
North Carolina, Georgia, Utah and Louisiana are among states that experimented with privateprisons and because of problems encountered have
...
status in September, 1996. The schools being financed by property taxes, abatements such as CCA's were a particular burden. Existing state law gave schools a say in property tax abatements of greater
...
University Cancels Sodhexo-Marriott Contract by Students from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, declared victory August 14, 2000 in a two month struggle to keep a catering company with ties to the forprofit prison industry from taking over the school's food service contract. In July, school administrators announced that the …
opposed to prison profiteering, expressed skepticism about the company's pledge and called on Sodexho to divest itself of all privateprison holdings (including recently acquired U.K. Detention Services
...
CMS Fined Nearly $1 Million in Virginia
by Dan Pens
Correctional Medical Services (CMS) contracts with the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) to provide medical care to some of its
...
Medical Claims Against CMS to be Refiled in State Court
by
By Matthew T. Clarke
A federal district court in Illinois has dismissed the breach of medical care duty suit of a suicide
...
. By then, atrophy had set in.
At time, Roderick Edmond was the jail medical director. He was employed by WexfordHealthService, a for-profit entity that had contracted with the county to provide medical services
...
