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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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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Male Reproductive, Malpractice, Escapes, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Juvenile Prisons, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Bribery/Extortion/Theft

prisoner phone use at the lockup, which is operated for the state DOC under contract by private prison giant CoreCivic. Lawson urged the state to assume control of the troubled prison. Texas: On June 6 ...

Suit Proceeds Against CoreCivic by Guard Strip-Searched at Georgia Prison

Article • April 26, 2024

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Strip Searches, Employee Litigation

denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a guard for private prison giant CoreCivic, alleging she was unconstitutionally strip-searched at Wheeler Correctional Facility (WCF). “Though ...

NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits

Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024

Filed under: Naphcare, Primecare Medical, Corizon, Contractor Misconduct, Seizures, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Private Contractors, Staffing, Vermin, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

, Wellpath Holdings, PrimeCare Medical and Armor Correctional Health Services, as well as Corizon Health, which has now been split between new prison healthcare contractor YesCare and Tehum Care Services ...

Eleventh Circuit Revives Claim Against NaphCare for Wrongful Death of Atlanta Jail Detainee

Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023

Filed under: Naphcare, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Involuntary Treatment/Drugging

Eleventh Circuit Revives Claim Against NaphCare for Wrongful Death of Atlanta Jail Detainee by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney “This appeal arises from the tragic death of Antonio May ...

Oliver v. JPay, GA, Complaint, Scheme to Defraud, 2023

Brief • July 9, 2023

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Scheme or Artifice to Defraud

’ fees and costs. NATURE OF THE ACTION 1. As detailed below, JPay, Inc. (“JPAY”) has engaged in a scheme to intentionally deprive Plaintiffs and the members of the putative class, who are all inmates ...

Oliver v. Jpay, LLC, GA, Complaint, Scheme to Defraud, 2023

Brief • July 9, 2023

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Scheme or Artifice to Defraud

Death Toll Mounts at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail with Reports of Malnutrition, Medical Neglect and Vermin

Article • December 5, 2022

Filed under: Naphcare, Food, Vermin, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

, reports by NaphCare, the Alabama-based private company providing health care to FCJ’s 3,000 detainees and prisoners, revealed widespread neglect of those in his unit, who are among the jail’s ...

CoreCivic Prison at Center of Georgia Drug Trafficking Investigation

Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Misconduct/Corruption, Drug Trafficking Crimes

-run private prison, the Coffee County Correctional Facility. At 41 years of age, charges stated that Burnett smuggled drugs, cell phones, and other items into the prison for gang members. She and 47 ...

Curtis v. CoreCivic, GA, Order, Unlawful Search & Seizure, 2021

Brief • September 16, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Strip Searches, Employee Litigation, Search and Seizure

, a plaintiff bringing a § 1983 claim against a private contractor acting under color of state law cannot hold that entity liable on a respondeat superior or vicarious liability basis. Nesmith v. Corrections ...

Whistleblower Claims Female Detainees at Privately Run Georgia ICE Facility Had Forced Hysterectomies

Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020

Filed under: Private Prisons, Private Contractors, Male Reproductive, Forcible Treatment, Sterilization

Whistleblower Claims Female Detainees at Privately Run Georgia ICE Facility Had Forced Hysterectomies by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A whistleblower at a privately operated federal detention center in Georgia prompted a joint complaint filed in September 2020 with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of …

Eleventh Circuit Holds Trafficking Victims Protection Act Applies to CoreCivic “Voluntary Work Program”

Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Labor, Immigration Detention

Eleventh Circuit Holds Trafficking Victims Protection Act Applies to CoreCivic “Voluntary Work Program” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 28, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1589(a), 1595, or TVPA, applies to privately operated immigration detention centers. …

Audit of the United States Marshals Service's Contract Awarded to the GEO Group, Incorporated to Operate the Robert A. Deyton Detention Facility, Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General,...

Publication • July 1, 2020

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Corrections Audits

not ensure that all of GEO’s transportation officers had completed training courses as required by federal law for employees of private prisoner transport companies. Consequently, transportation officers were ...

Joint letter to investigate conditions at Stewart Detention Center in Georgia

Publication • October 17, 2019

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Conditions of Confinement, Immigration, HRDC Sign on Letters

for three months and started “acting crazy,” and ate his own feces.116 Id. Id. 104 Id. 105 Id. 106 https://projectsouth.org/forced-labor-lawsuit; https://projectsouth.org/private-prison-company-uses-forced ...

Audit Determines Georgia’s State Prisons More Cost Effective than Private Prisons

Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut

Audit Determines Georgia’s State Prisons More Cost Effective than Private Prisons by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A legislative audit, released in December 2018, concluded ...

CoreCivic’s Actions Against Sexual Harassment Compel Reversal of Jury Verdict

Article • October 4, 2018

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Sexual Harassment, Failure to Protect (Staff)

CoreCivic’s Actions Against Sexual Harassment Compel Reversal of Jury Verdict by David Reutter by David Reutter  The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Georgia federal district court’s grant of judgment of law for Corrections Corporation of America, now known as CoreCivic, in a lawsuit alleging it failed to take …

Hill Barrientos et al. v. CoreCivic, Inc., GA, Motion to Dismiss Denied, Class-action Claims Under Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 2018

Brief • August 17, 2018

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Work, Overcrowding, Sanitation, Bedding, Money/Property, Commissary, Immigration

Hill Barrientos et al. v. CoreCivic, Inc., GA, Motion to Dismiss Denied, Class-action Claims Under Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 2018 Case 4:18-cv-00070-CDL Document 38 Filed 08/17/18 Page 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA COLUMBUS DIVISION WILHEN HILL BARRIENTOS, MARGARITO VELAZQUEZ-GALICIA, and …

Federal Class-action Accuses CoreCivic of Exploiting Immigrant Detainee Labor

Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Labor, Class Certification, Immigration

of Georgia accuses private prison behemoth CoreCivic – formerly Corrections Corporation of America – of exploiting immigrant detainees who perform work in the company’s ICE detention ...

Trinity Services Group Faces Complaints Due to Inadequate Prison and Jail Food

Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018

Filed under: Private Prisons, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Food

;in three separate incidents at the Cotton facility, where prisoners also complained about “crunchy dirt” in potatoes. [See: PLN, Feb. 2017, p.48]. After switching in 2015 from Aramark, another ...

ICE Detainee Sent to Solitary Confinement for Encouraging Protest of “Voluntary” Low-Wage Labor

Article • October 12, 2017

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Retaliatory Segregation, Prison Labor, Protests, Immigration

did not attempt to defend this use of solitary confinement at the facility, Stewart Detention Center, which is run by private prison contractor CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation ...

Private Probation Company Agrees to End Drug Testing Absent Court Order

Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017

Filed under: Sentinel, Parole/Probation Searches, Drug Testing, Class Certification

Private Probation Company Agrees to End Drug Testing Absent Court Order by David Reutter by David Reutter In a preliminary consent order, Sentinel Offender Services, a private probation ...

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