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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 ...

GEO Group Gets $1 Billion ICE Contract at New Jersey Lockup

Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Enforcement of Immigration Laws, Detention - Generally

GEO Group Gets $1 Billion ICE Contract at New Jersey Lockup by On February 26, 2025, then-acting federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Caleb Vitello announced a 15-year contract with The GEO Group, Inc. to reopen and expand its Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, which will …

New Jersey Private Prison Ban Voided

Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Supremacy Clause, Detention - Generally, Immigration Detention

New Jersey Private Prison Ban Voided by The issue of illegal immigration is a contentious one. Though entering the country illegally is a violation of civil immigration law, migrant families ...

Federal Judge Approves $25 Million Class Action Settlement Against Global Tel*Link

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

Filed under: Private Prisons, Telephone Rates, Class Actions

Federal Judge Approves $25 Million Class Action Settlement Against Global Tel*Link by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On October 22, 2020, New Jersey federal district court Judge William J. Martini ended a seven-year class action brought by New Jersey Department of Correction (DOC) prisoners complaining of excessive phone fees levied …

Escapes and Crime at New Jersey's Privately-Run Halfway Houses

Article • August 24, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Community Education Centers, Escapes, Cost of Prison Systems, Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General), Jail Specific, Failure to Protect (Staff)

are rampant in some halfway houses. Community Education Centers The largest private influence in the halfway house system is Community Education Centers (CEC), a West Caldwell, New Jersey company that manages ...

Nothing's 'Nonprofit' About Groups Running N.J.'s Broken Halfway Houses

Article • August 23, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Release and Reentry

millions to Community Education Centers (CEO), a "politically connected company that dominates the halfway-house system," the Times reported. New Jersey Democrats say that Gov. Chris Christie, a potential ...

Hurricane Sandy Facilitates Mass Escape from New Jersey's Logan Hall

Article • August 23, 2016

Filed under: Community Education Centers, Prison Rebellion, Escapes, Jail Specific

at the notorious Logan Hall halfway house to run rampant, including a mass escape of fifteen prisoners. Although designated a "halfway house," Logan Hall, which is operated by Community Education Centers (CEC ...

Rodriguez v. State of New Jersey, NJ, Settlement, Wrongful Death Tooth Infection, 2016

Brief • May 22, 2016

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

I ! I' f f ~ I I i i l i I' I 1 Medicare as conditional payments subject to the right of repayment. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (hereinafter CMS) has a direct priority right ...

When Halfway Houses Pose Full-Time Problems

Article • January 10, 2015 • from PLN January, 2015

Filed under: Classification, Work Release, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Community Education Centers, Contractor Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Escapes, Failure to Protect (General), Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Alternative Sentencing

industry is Community Education Centers (CEC), a New Jersey-based for-profit company that manages jails, prisons and transitional centers throughout the United States. The firm operates six large halfway ...

Private Prison Contractor Not Subject to New Jersey’s Open Records Act

Article • August 13, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014

Filed under: Community Education Centers, Public Records

superior court held that Community Education Centers (CEC), a private prison contractor, was not required to disclose its records under the state’s Open Public Records Act (OPRA), N.J.S.A. § 47:1A ...

Rodriguez v. State of New Jersey, NJ, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death Tooth Infection, 2014

Brief • June 16, 2014

Filed under: Corizon, Dental Care, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

officer at the Burlington County Jail who was in charge of ensuring that the health, safety and welfare of the inmates. At 9. all times relevant Systems and Corizon Health, medical services hereto ...

Community Education Centers Acquires CiviGenics

Article • August 15, 2011

Filed under: Private Prisons, Civigenics, Community Education Centers

Community Education Centers Acquires CiviGenics by In June, 2007, Roseland, New Jersey-based Community Education Centers, Inc, (CEC), the nation’s largest private provider of re-entry ...

Limitations Period in Suit Over Delay in Providing Surgery Begins When Prisoner is Recommended for Surgery

Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010

Filed under: CMS, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Surgery, Limitations

Limitations Period in Suit Over Delay in Providing Surgery Begins When Prisoner is Recommended for Surgery by Brandon Sample The statute of limitations in a lawsuit claiming medical negligence by prison officials in delaying a prisoner’s surgery begins to accrue when the prisoner is first recommended for surgery by a …

Third Circuit Reverses $642,398.57 Attorney Fee Award for RFRA Claim by Immigration Prisoner

Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010

Filed under: Esmor/CSC, Totality of Conditions, Attorney Fee Awards, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Immigration, Religious Freedom, Religious Practices

Third Circuit Reverses $642,398.57 Attorney Fee Award for RFRA Claim by Immigration Prisoner by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an immigration detainee’s $642,398.57 attorney fee award, finding that “the District Court’s degree of success inquiry under § 1988 was based on an impermissible reconstruction of the jury verdict.” …

Sexual Abuse by Prison and Jail Staff Proves Persistent, Pandemic

Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cornell Corrections, GRW Corp., Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution

and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a private prison operated by GRW Corp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit ...

Former New Jersey Prison Social Worker Abuse Lawsuit Reinstated

Article • April 15, 2009

Filed under: CMS, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Supervisory Liability, Contractor Liability, Failure to Train/Supervise, Hiring Liability, Assaults on Staff, Employee Litigation, Failure to Protect (Staff)

Former New Jersey Prison Social Worker Abuse Lawsuit Reinstated by A New Jersey appeals court has reversed a lower courts dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a former prison health care worker. Angela Hoag was a licensed social worker employed by Correctional Medical Services, Inc. and worked at Southern State …

CMS Contract Woes Persist in New Jersey, Arizona and Delaware

Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009

Filed under: CMS, CONMED, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

behind the contract terminations. What is unusual is that the contracts were canceled, as prison officials normally tolerate CMS’s substandard performance in order to save money; also, using a private ...

$1,100,000 Settlement in Juvenile Prisoner Suicide in Union County, New Jersey

Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009

Filed under: Correctional Health Services, Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Lockdowns, Municipal Liability, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides

plus $230,000 in attorney fees. Four private companies, including Correctional Health Services, settled their liability separately for undisclosed amounts. Yolanda Padilla was 34 when her 17-year-old ...

Former Immigration Detainee Awarded $100,001 Against CSC/Esmor, Plus $137,808 in Attorney’s Fees and Expenses

Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008

Filed under: Esmor/CSC, Attorney Fee Awards, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Alien Tort Claims Act, International, Immigration

was operated for the federal government by Esmor Correctional Services (Esmor); the company later changed its name to Correctional Services Corp., which was acquired by GEO Group – the nation’s second largest ...

New Jersey District Court: Reargument Granted In PHS Negligence Claim

Article • July 15, 2008

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Medication, Civil Procedure, Expert Witnesses, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

that Prison Health Services’ (PHS) failure to monitor her lithium levels fell under the common knowledge exception of N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2A:53A-27 and granted her motion for reargument. Upon admission to New ...

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