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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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Prisoner’s Suicide in Sherburne County Minnesota Jail Results in $2.3 Million Settlement

Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021

Filed under: Private Contractors, Settlements, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

Prisoner’s Suicide in Sherburne County Minnesota Jail Results in $2.3 Million Settlement by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders A recent investigation by KARE 11, a Minnesota-based NBC news affiliate, has brought much-needed attention to systematic failures at jails throughout Minnesota. Many local and state correctional facilities in that state, according …

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 ...

States Wrestle with Prison Privatization

Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cost of Prison Systems

, noting that the last-minute timing of the 2016 bailout payment to CCA in exchange for not closing Kit Carson amounted to “blackmail.” Kentucky legislators also put forward a private prison ...

The Class Action Cure

Article • March 27, 2017

Filed under: Corizon, Medication, Hepatitis

constitutional status – at least not judging by the volume of correctional health care-related lawsuits against prisons and, increasingly, their medical services contractors. Corizon – the largest ...

Minnesota's 'Million-Dollar Prisoners' Become Scapegoats in Tough Economy

Article • August 26, 2016

Filed under: Corizon, Failure to Treat, Malpractice, Cost of Prison Systems, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

2006 to Corizon, a for‑profit company that will he paid $28 million in 2012 to provide basic care for prisoners. While MDOC says that Corizon is saving taxpayers millions of dollars, prisoners see ...

Effects of Private Prison Confinement in MN on Offender Recidivism, MN DOC, 2013

Publication • August 9, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Rehabilitation/Recidivism

Effects of Private Prison Confinement in MN on Offender Recidivism, MN DOC, 2013 THE EFFECTS OF PRIVATE PRISON CONFINEMENT IN MINNESOTA ON OFFENDER RECIDIVISM Authors Grant Duwe, Ph.D. Research ...

$400,000 Settlement in Suit Over Minnesota Prisoner’s Death Due to Medical Neglect

Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Seizures, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

employees, but a private contractor, Corizon, provided physician services. As a money-saving measure, no Corizon doctors were present at the facility after 4 p.m. or on weekends. A physician assistant had ...

Former Minnesota Prisoner’s Inadequate Health Care Suit Settled for $275,000

Article • January 15, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Medication, Vision, Allergy, Malpractice

to a medication given to him while he was in prison. The lawsuit continues against Corizon Health. On June 4, 2007, Teddy A. Korf arrived at the Minnesota Correctional Facility -St. Cloud. At that time, he ...

Another Failed Experiment: Minnesota’s Private Prison Health Care Saves Money but Costs Lives

Article • October 3, 2014

Filed under: Private Contractors, Malpractice, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Another Failed Experiment: Minnesota’s Private Prison Health Care Saves Money but Costs Lives by David Reutter Another Failed Experiment: Minnesota’s Private Prison Health Care Saves ...

The Effects of Private Prison Confinement in Minnesota on Offender Recidivism

Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prisoner Privileges, Rehabilitation/Recidivism

The Effects of Private Prison Confinement in Minnesota on Offender Recidivism by The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) recently completed an evaluation of the effects of private ...

Eighth Circuit Dismisses Appeal Where Parties Attempted to Manufacture Jurisdiction

Article • March 15, 2011

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Deaf Prisoners, Civil Procedure, Appeals

Eighth Circuit Dismisses Appeal Where Parties Attempted to Manufacture Jurisdiction by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has rejected an attempt by the parties in a suit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to manufacture appellate jurisdiction for an interlocutory appeal from a district court’s grant of …

Minn. Prison Signs Contract for Puerto Rican Inmates

Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons

Minn. Prison Signs Contract for Puerto Rican Inmates by Minn. Prison signs Contract for Puerto Rican Inmates St. Paul, Minn. - about 500 prisoners from Puerto Rico will come to Minnesota as early as this month under a deal that finally will fill a privately operated prison in Appleton built …