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PLN Publisher Wins Settlement Records from Centurion in Florida Prisoner’s Wrongful Death
by Chuck Sharman
On June 24, 2025, Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit Court for Putnam County
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HRDC Wins $480,000 in Legal Fees from Centurion for Denied New Mexico Records
by Chuck Sharman
On February 17, 2025, Paul Wright, Executive Director of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC
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prisoner phone use at the lockup, which is operated for the state DOC under contract by privateprison giant CoreCivic. Lawson urged the state to assume control of the troubled prison.
Texas: On June 6
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Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill to Penalize PrivatePrisons for High Mortality Rates
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In April 2025, the Tennessee General Assembly passed SB 1115, legislation that imposes penalties
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Sixth Circuit Order Sealing Records in PrivatePrison Shareholder Suit Vacated, Remanded
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As of 2016, CoreCivic—formerly Corrections Corp. of America—contracted
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Gave Massive Handouts to ICE and PrivatePrison Industry
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On July 4, 2025,President Donald Trump (R) signed into law a budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1
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Shady Firm Awarded $78 Million Contract for Services at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” by An obscure consulting firm in Jacksonville, Florida was awarded a $78 million contract in early July 2025 to provide a range of critical services at a hastily built immigrant detention center in the Everglades, dubbed by state …
Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arizona Challenge to PrivatePrisons
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In 2020, the Arizona chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and two
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Trump’s “Border Czar” Was on GEO Group Payroll by Before Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) took office, his “border czar” Tom Homan worked as a consultant for GEO Group, Inc., one of the largest operators of immigrant detention facilities in the country. The revelation, as the Washington Post reported, raises …
; since January 2014, at least. CommunityEducationsCenters, Inc./GEO Group, Inc. operated the jail between January 2014 and sometime in 2019, when CSG took over, and Malone has been the contract monitor
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Seventh Circuit Revives Former Illinois Prisoner’s Claim for Delayed Hepatitis-C Treatment by David Reutter On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a former Illinois prisoner’s deliberate indifference claim against a healthcare provider contracted by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) could proceed …
Former Centurion Owner Accused of Helping Florida Governor Kill Legalized Weed
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uring a hearing on April 9, 2025, Florida lawmakers pieced together an elaborate money trail from
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nearly $300 million—all with the same healthcare contractor, VitalCore Health Strategies.
In July 2020, after the DOC’s former contractor, Centurion Health, opted to terminate its contract
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Oklahoma Supreme Court Kills One Jail Death Suit, Threatening Settlement of Another by In a case with enormous implications for Oklahoma jail detainees, the state Supreme Court ruled on March 11, 2025, that a jail’s subcontracted medical providers are “employees” for the purposes of the Oklahoma Governmental Tort Claims Act …
Wellpath and VitalCore Skip Paying Nearly $2 Million in Settlements in South Carolina by In October 2024, Wellpath—a private for-profit contractor that provides medical care in prisons and jails—was ordered to pay a $1.5 million settlement it entered in a lawsuit alleging that one of the company’s nurses performed “unnecessary …
that privateprison healthcare giant Centurion allegedly ignored, officials with the company agreed to an undisclosed settlement and claims were dismissed on March 27, 2025. That left claims by Elmer Williams
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Six Deaths in Eleven Months at Washington Jail by The South County Correctional Entity, a jail shared by six cities in Washington’s King County and located in the Seattle suburb of Des Moines, recorded its sixth death in 11 months on February 1, 2025. Known locally as SCORE, the lockup …
Wellpath Sanctioned for Discovery Violation in Suit Over Kentucky Prisoner’s Death
by Douglas Ankney
by Douglas Ankney
Privateprison and jail medical provider Wellpath, LLC has announced
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Wellpath Prepares Plan to Exit Bankruptcy by Prison healthcare giant Wellpath took a step closer toward exiting bankruptcy proceedings on April 15, 2025, when it announced a settlement reached with a group a notch below those senior creditors first in line for repayment. That group of junior creditors includes prisoners …
CoreCivic Will Cage Migrant Families in Texas Lockup
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On March 5, 2025, privateprison operator CoreCivic, Inc. announced a new contract with United States Immigration and Customs
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