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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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" of the 200-person staff at the private prison had quit or been fired. CCA spokesperson Susan Hart declined to comment. Up to fifteen female employees, including guards and nurses, are suspected of having ...
. The jail was operated by the Bobby Ross Group, a private prison company. In 1997 a video surfaced, which was shown on national television, in which jail guards were shown beating and abusing prisoners ...
Out-of-State Prisoner Housing Contracts Subject to Long-Arm Jurisdiction by A federal court in Missouri has held that Missouri prisoners whose incarceration was contracted to Brazoria County, Texas, could sue Brazoria County in Missouri. This is a lawsuit filed in Missouri federal district court by Missouri state prisoners who were abused …
Ferris complained to jail nurse Sprowl that she was having a miscarriage. Sprowl, who was employed by Allied Resources for Correctional Health (ARCH), failed to provide meaningful treatment, and within ...
Prison Health Services Refuses to Pay by The U.S. court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a forum selection clause in an indemnity agreement between the Sheriff of Polk Co ...
Habeas Challenging Transfer to Private Prison Dismissed by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that habeas corpus was not the proper means to challenge a state statute allowing ...
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Prison Realty Hires PR Firm by Nashville-based Prison Realty Trust, the parent company of Corrections Corp. of America (CCA), has hired a leading public relations firm to improve its image. In Sept. 1999 Prison Realty retained Los Angeles-based Sitrick & Co., which specializes in crisis management. Sitrick will handle Prison …
at the private prisons were less desirable than at state facilities. The Wackenhut prisons are double-bunked with no electrical outlets in the cells (allegedly at the state's request), while state facilities ...
CSC Cancels Florida Juvenile Facility Contract by Correctional Services Corp. (CSC) announced Aug. 23, 1999 that it was withdrawing from an $8.7 million-a-year contract to operate ...
Riots Rock CCA Prison in Oklahoma by In Nov. 1998 Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) opened the Diamondback Corr. Facility in Watonga, OK and filled it with prisoners from Indiana and Hawaii. According to a prisoner housed at the facility there was a great deal of tension between the two …
Trial Required in ADA Suit over HIV Medication by In the July, 1999, issue of PLN we reported McNally v. Prison Health Services, 28 F. Supp.2d 671 (D ME 1999) in which the court denied ...
be a sure bet. But CCA underestimated the political prowess of California's prison guard union; the CCPOA doesn't like private prisons. And neither does Gov. Gray Davis, the beneficiary of $2 million ...
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
% within a week after Prison Realty announced it would pay increased costs for building and marketing private prisons. Several investment firms downgraded Prison Realty's stock, which dropped to a 52 week ...
Private Transportation Company Liable Under 42 USC § 1983 by Private Transportation Company Liable Under 42 USC § 1983 A federal district court in Colorado held that alleged sexual ...
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
permission. PLN originally reported on the Academy in its News in Brief section several years ago. We thought our readers would be interested in learning about the latest private prison. Row long before Disney ...
FBI Investigates CCA-Run INS Center in New Jersey by A Corrections Corporation of America operated immigrant detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey is under investigation due to alleged misconduct by company employees. Federal officials confirmed on April 13, 1999 that the U.S. Dept. of Justice had requested the probe, which …
County Detention Center. At the time of the incident Missouri housed some of its its overflow prisoners in a portion of the Brazoria County jail that was being leased to Capital Correctional Resources ...
at the private prison over the past year [see PLN, June, 1999]. Hundreds of state and local law enforcement officers responded to the riot. New Mexico Corrections Dept. spokesman Mike Toms said the disturbance ...
Corp., has long been criticized for his close connections with the private prison companies he researches [see: "University professor shills for private prison industry," PLN, Feb. 1999]. On April 19 ...
Tennessee Supreme Court Upholds Private Prison Disciplinary Procedures by When the Tennessee legislature passed the Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, codified at TCA § 41-24- 101 ...
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