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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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Maryland and Wexford Health Pay $200,000 to Prisoner Denied Care and Partially Blinded

Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024

Filed under: Wexford Health Services, Blind Prisoners, Failure to Treat, Settlements

a contract in July 2024 with YesCare, despite the bankruptcy of its predecessor, Corizon Health, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Oct. 2024, p.60.] Additional source: Baltimore Banner ...

Maryland Extends Contract with YesCare Despite Bankruptcy of Predecessor Corizon Health

Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024

Filed under: Private Contractors

Maryland Extends Contract with YesCare Despite Bankruptcy of Predecessor Corizon Health by For-profit prison healthcare contractor Corizon Health had a sordid reputation even before ...

Texas Bankruptcy Court Rejects Proposed Settlement of Prisoner Claims Against Corizon Health

Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024

Filed under: Corizon, Malpractice, Damages, Bankruptcy

Texas Bankruptcy Court Rejects Proposed Settlement of Prisoner Claims Against Corizon Health by On April 11, 2024, a Texas bankruptcy court rejected a proposed $54 million settlement ...

No Summary Judgment for Private Transportation Company in Maryland Detainee’s Suit Alleging “Horrific” 2,000-Mile Journey

Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023

Filed under: Transport Companies, Transportation, Summary Judgment

No Summary Judgment for Private Transportation Company in Maryland Detainee’s Suit Alleging “Horrific” 2,000-Mile Journey by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Over nine days in December 2015 ...

$60,411 Attorney Fee Award in Maryland Prisoner’s Public Information Act Suit

Article • November 15, 2012 • from PLN November, 2012

Filed under: Private Prisons, Prison Health Services, Hepatitis, Disclosure of Records, State Legislation

that WCI’s practices may be exposing prisoners to hepatitis C, Massey asked for records related to the facility’s contract with Prison Health Services. He also requested information concerning testing ...

Youth Services International Not Liable for Child’s Rape by Cellmate

Article • August 15, 2008

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Youth Services International, Failure to Protect (General), Complaints, Juvenile Prisons

Youth Services International Not Liable for Child’s Rape by Cellmate by The plaintiff alleged that he was sexually assaulted by his roommate in a privately operated juvenile facility ...

Prison Health Services Physician’s Assistant License Revocation Upheld

Article • July 15, 2008

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Misconduct/Corruption, Medical Misconduct, Medication, Criminal Prosecution

Prison Health Services Physician’s Assistant License Revocation Upheld by On June 2, 2005, a Maryland court of appeals upheld the revocation of a Prison Health Services (PBS) Physician’s ...

Audit Reveals Problems with Maryland’s New Prisoner Health Care System

Article • March 15, 2008 • from PLN March, 2008

Filed under: CMS, Contractor Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Staffing, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

to provide insufficient staffing levels. Although not identified individually in the report, St. Louis-based Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the state's main provider of medical care, was paid $49.2 ...

Little State, Big Problems: Maine’s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated

Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Retaliation for Media Contact, Retaliatory Transfers, Hunger Strikes, Criminal Prosecution, Crime, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides, Access to Media, State Legislation

the Legislature to imprison human beings for profit. The lobbyist for the private prison company was James Mitchell, a close Baldacci advisor, campaign contributor, and fundraiser. Department of Corrections ...

CONMED Not Using Licensed Nurses In Maryland Jail

Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006

Filed under: CONMED, Conditions of Confinement, Staffing

CONMED Not Using Licensed Nurses In Maryland Jail by Attempts to get jail medical services on the cheap may have backfired for Marylands Queen Anne County. CONMED, a private jail medical ...

CSC Pays Public Defender Social Worker $125,000 for Rape in Juvenile Facility

Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Prisoner-Staff Assault, Esmor/CSC, Contractor Misconduct, Public Defenders

lawsuit sought $20 million against the operators of Hickley: Youth Services International and its parent company, Correctional Services Corp. (CSC). [Editors Note: CSC was later bought by Geo Corp ...

Maryland's PHS Prison Health Care Under Fire, New System Implemented

Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006

Filed under: Private Prisons, CMS, Prison Health Services, Medical Misconduct, HIV/AIDS, Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, Cancer, Staffing, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

been provided by Tennessee-based Prison Health Services (PHS) since 2000, is in disarray. Prisoners sometimes receive the wrong medicine or none at all; records are poorly kept; physical exams are often ...

PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues

Article • December 15, 2003

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, OB/GYN, Stroke, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues by by John E. Dannenberg Prison Health Services (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group, Inc ...

YSI: Another Death, Another Settlement

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

Filed under: Private Prisons, Esmor/CSC, Youth Services International, Contractor Misconduct, Boot Camps, Staffing, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides

YSI: Another Death, Another Settlement by Youth Services International (YSI), a company already under fire for a multitude of problems, including contract violations, financial mismanagement ...

Court Orders Hospitalization for Federal Pretrial Detainee

Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003

Filed under: Transfers, Prison Health Services, Medical, Medication, Blood, Medical Records, Brain Injury, Injunctions

exhaustive hearing could be conducted." At that later hearing the sole witness for the government was David Thompson, a regional manager for Prison Health Services, Inc., which has a contract with the State ...

Boot Camp or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love

Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Esmor/CSC, Youth Services International, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Boot Camps, Staffing, Excessive Force, Prisoner Privileges, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

escapes from Cullen as well as the rape of a staff member at the Hickey School. Both facilities are operated by Youth Services International (YSI), a for profit division of CSC, the same outfit ...

News in Brief

Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002

Filed under: Private Prisons, Esmor/CSC, Financing, CMS, Youth Services International, Contractor Misconduct, Vision, Boot Camps, Staffing, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Immigration, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

News in Brief by Roger Hummel Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor …

Deadly Nostalgia: The Politics of Boot Camps

Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001

Filed under: Private Prisons, Racial Discrimination, Boot Camps, Strip Cells, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Damages, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Deadly Nostalgia: The Politics of Boot Camps by Christian Parenti The short, stout eighth grader Gina Score, was never much of an athlete. But that didn't matter to the staff at South Dakota's Plankinton boot camp for girls, where militarystyle discipline and calisthenics were the modus operandi and, as staff …

Failure to Remove Sutures States Claim

Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997

Filed under: CMS, Medical, Surgery, Hernias, Eighth Amendment

(CMS), the private business that held the MD DOC's medical care contract, refused to do so. The wire was eventually removed after four years of Jones' complaints. He then filed suit claiming prison ...