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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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Thou Shalt Not: Sexual Misconduct by Prison and Jail Chaplains

Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Staff Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Staff-Staff Harassment, Supervisor-Staff Harassment, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Clergy, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons

Thou Shalt Not: Sexual Misconduct by Prison and Jail Chaplains by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Traditionally, the role of a chaplain in the correctional setting is to serve as a spiritual advisor to prisoners and help them meet the requirements of their religious faiths. Equally traditionally, chaplains have …

Cornell Wins $19.5 Million Alaska Contract; CCA Protest Denied

Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, Cornell Corrections

of America (CCA), which was the final hurdle before awarding Cornell Corrections of Alaska (a subsidiary of Cornell Corrections) a contract worth $19,446,000 to house up to 900 Alaskan prisoners in an out ...

Alaska Prisoners May Assert Third-Party Beneficiary Claim Against Contract Medical Provider

Article • June 15, 2009

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Malpractice, State Law Claims, Immunity/Liability, Contractor Liability

Alaska Prisoners May Assert Third-Party Beneficiary Claim Against Contract Medical Provider by Alaska prisoners may bring a third-party breach of contract claim against contract medical providers for medical negligence, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided August 28, 2007. Joseph Miller, an Alaska prisoner, sued Corrections Corporation …

City Agrees to Pay $2,500,000 to Private Prison Company

Article • April 15, 2009

Filed under: Private Prisons, Delta Corrections Group, Contractor Liability, Premises Liability

to construct a private prison at Fort Greely, Alaska. After Fort Greely was slated for closing by a military base closing commission, Delta Corrections Group (DCG) made plans, in conjunction with the City ...

Alaskan Prisoner in Arizona Can Enforce CCA Contract

Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Drug Testing, Consent Decrees (PLRA), Civil Procedure, State Law Claims

Alaskan Prisoner in Arizona Can Enforce CCA Contract by The Supreme Court of Alaska held that state prisoners incarcerated at a private prison in Arizona can enforce portions of the contract ...

$2.5 Million Settlement For Private Prison Construction Cancellation

Article • August 15, 2008

Filed under: Private Prisons, Allvest, Zoning

$2.5 Million Settlement For Private Prison Construction Cancellation by The City of Delta Junction (City) and Alaska corporations Allvest, Inc., and Delta Corrections Group, LLC (DCG ...

Cornell Company - The Prison Industry's Enron

Article • February 15, 2004 • from PLN February, 2004

Filed under: Work Release, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Financing, Cornell Corrections, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Staffing, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, State Legislation

, namely Cornell Corrections. Hicks seized the opportunity. On August 14, 2001 Municipal Corrections Finance LP. (a Cornell/Provident creation) purchased eleven prisons from Cornell who promptly leased ...

Alaska Prisoners' Benefits Extended to Arizona

Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Overcrowding, Civil Procedure, Settlements, Mootness

Alaska Prisoners' Benefits Extended to Arizona by The Supreme Court of Alaska sustained a lower court's ruling which provisionally allowed Alaska prisoners to be transferred to an Arizona prison, required the Arizona facility to comply with Alaska's prison overcrowding settlement agreement, and found the Alaska prisoners' challenge to the process …

$1.4 Million Awarded to Raped Alaska Women Prisoners

Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001

Filed under: Work Release, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Cornell Corrections, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Contractor Liability, Failure to Train/Supervise

misconduct at the center also netted him 22 years in prison in a separate criminal action. Allvest Inc., a subsidiary of Cornell Corrections Inc., a private prison company based in Houston, TX, which owns ...

Rehabilitation or Corporate Profit

Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Work Strikes, Guard Brutality/Beatings

officials at this private prison (a for profit business owned by Corrections Corporation of America) assaulted prisoners with rubber bullets, smoke tear gas, and percussion grenades. Further assault ...

Alaska Prisoners in Exile

Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Overcrowding

Detention Center [a private prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America] in Florence, AZ, supposedly to ease overcrowding and avoid fines levied by the court for violating population caps ...