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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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would be the next great leap forward for Ohio penology. So they bid out a contract for private firms to provide food service at the Noble Correctional Institution. Of the two bids submitted, from ARAMARK ...
$100,000 Settlement in TX Restraint Chair/Pepper Spray Death by On February 22, 2000, Tarrant County, Texas agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement to the estate of James Livingston, 30, to settle a wrongful death suit. On July 6, 1999, Livingston was arrested on a trespassing warrant. He was allegedly abusive …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
prisoners were sent to hospitals near the Adelanto, California, medium security private prison operated by Marantha Private Corrections LLC. Fighting began at 7:00 P.M. and allegedly ended a few minutes ...
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Escape Costs Oklahoma Private Prison $304,375 by Gordon Flud's April 12, 2000, escape from a Hinton, Oklahoma rent-a-jail didn't end well for him--or for his prison. Flud, 44, jumped fences ...
by Cornell Corrections, a private, for-profit prison company. GPCF is the first private prison to open in Oklahoma. Dennis Cunningham, the Oklahoma DOC's private prison administrator, said at the time ...
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Prison Realty/CCA Bailout Deal Canceled by On the cover of the July PLN we reported that the nation's largest private prison owner and operator, Prison Realty/CCA, verged on bankruptcy ...
is not the only one taking action. On March 31, 2000, the Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against the Jena Juvenile Justice Center. It is the first time the DOJ has sued a private prison company ...
Wackenhut Wracked by Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ronald Young Wackenhut Wracked By Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ron Young After a decade as a leading operator of corporate-owned prisons, Wackenhut Corrections has become a prisoner of its own problems. In New Mexico, a 500-page legislative report written by five consultants calls …
Escape Costs Private Transport Company by A private prisoner transport company agreed to pay $50,000 to the state of North Dakota to defray the state's expenses for recapturing a prisoner ...
planned," Epstein told a packed house from the stage of the Tavern, "But Marriott Dining Services, a company that invests highly in private prisons, has determined that the show is not going to happen ...
Showing Of Malice Under Eighth Amendment Excessive Force Test Not Required For Sexual Assault Claim by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that it was plain error to instruct a jury that, to find a prison guard liable on excessive force claim …
Arizona Jury Acquits CCA Escapees by Two Alaska state prisoners on trial for a 1996 escape from a private prison were acquitted by an Arizona jury. The prosecution was undoubtedly stunned ...
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
Private Prison Contract May be Invalid by Private Prison Contract May Be Invalid The Colorado state court of appeals remanded a case to the trial court for a determination of the validity ...
a corporation, East Carroll Correctional Systems, Inc. (ECCS), which issued 100 shares of stock to Wyly cronies and family members. Thirty-five of the 100 shares were issued to 62-year-old Dorothy Morgel, Wyly's ...
by shareholders. It remains to be seen whether the world's largest private prison corporation will remain healthy enough to attract investors and retain employees and customers (i.e. state and federal jurisdictions ...
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Riot at Private Prison by On November 14, 1999, hundreds of prisoners housed at a privately operated prison in Taft, California, rioted in protest over conditions, according ...
15 minutes before this thing went down," he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "If something was going to happen that was planned, what better time to do it than then? I think it was spontaneous ...
. His earlier roles with the Nashville-based private prison corporation included serving as CCA's director of strategic planning, and as CEO of CCA Prison Realty Trust after the real estate investment ...
DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care at Missouri Prison by Michael Rigby DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care At Missouri Prison by Michael Rigby Allegations of improper medical treat-ment, lack ...
men were transfer prisoners from Hawaii, being housed in the private prison. Amani, then 24, died of a heart attack induced by a drug overdose when packets of methamphetamine he had swallowed burst ...
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