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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 ...

Corizon Bankruptcy Stalls Suit By Alleged Rape Victims of Rikers Island Guard

Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corizon, Settlements

Corizon Bankruptcy Stalls Suit By Alleged Rape Victims of Rikers Island Guard by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A group of women who claimed they were raped by a physician’s assistant ...

US Marshalls Terminate Contract with GEO Snitch Camp at Queens NY Detention Facility

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

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut

US Marshalls Terminate Contract with GEO Snitch Camp at Queens NY Detention Facility by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On March 16, 2021, the Queens Daily Eagle reported that the federal government had declined to renew a contract with for-profit prison contractor GEO Group to operate the Queens Detention Facility …

Law Review States Prisons Better Off With Public Health Care Rather than Private

Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021

Filed under: Private Prisons, Inadequate Health Care Facilities

to a private company. Private health care companies started springing up all over. Today’s modern industry is dominated by two major corporations—Corizon and WellPath. A 1999 survey found nine state ...

GEO Jail in New York City Sees Rapid Spread of Coronavirus

Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, COVID-19

GEO Jail in New York City Sees Rapid Spread of Coronavirus by A GEO Group-run jail in Queens, New York City, saw coronavirus cases surge in the facility in May 2020. The 222-bed medium/minimum-security federal Queens Detention Facility, New York City’s only privately run jail, reported 25 prisoners and 10 …

Lawsuit Against New York Jail, CCS Survives Motion to Dismiss

Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, Medical, Failure to Treat, Wrongful Death, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Medical Neglect/Malpractice

-trial detainee Pedro Sanchez, Jr. has survived a motion to dismiss filed by the county jail’s medical provider, Correct Care Solutions (now known as Wellpath), and several of the company’s ...

Sanchez v. NY Correct Care Solutions Medical Services, et al., NY, Order, Wrongful Death, 2018

Brief • December 11, 2018

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, Pain, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Wrongful Death, Fourteenth Amendment, rights

Sanchez v. NY Correct Care Solutions Medical Services, et al., NY, Order, Wrongful Death, 2018 Case 6:16-cv-06826-CJS Document 30 Filed 12/11/18 Page 1 of 27 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN ...

PrimeCare Medical of New York Inc., Re: Proposal for Comprehensive Services - Putnam County, 2018

Publication • September 14, 2018

Filed under: Private Prisons, Medical, Private Contractors

PrimeCare Medical of New York Inc., Re: Proposal for Comprehensive Services - Putnam County, 2018 Putnam County Correctional Facility Inmate Health Care Services RFP – 7-18 Table of Contents ...

“Egregious” Lack of Care by Jail’s Medical Contractor Leads to $1 Million Settlement

Article • July 3, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018

Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Systemic Medical Neglect, Stroke, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

, they notified Correctional Medical Care (CMC), the jail’s for-profit health care provider, and took him to the infirmary. There, a CMC nurse gave Cannon Gatorade and returned him to his cell. Jail video ...

New York Dept. of Corrections and Community Supervision and JPay Inc., re inmate kiosks, 2018

Publication • June 13, 2018

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Conditions of Confinement, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring

New York Dept. of Corrections and Community Supervision and JPay Inc., re inmate kiosks, 2018 STATE OF NEW YORK AGREEMENT STATE AGENCY (Name & Address): New York State Department of Corrections ...

Wrongful Death Case Against New York Jail Settles for $101,500

Article • May 9, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018

Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Eighth Amendment, Settlements, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

, Correctional Medical Care (CMC), as well as Ellis Hospital and staff members Emre Umar and Maria Carpio, of implementing unconstitutional policies and practices. In addition, Helijas argued that &ldquo ...

$7.9 Million Award Against New York County and Medical Contractor in Jail Suicide Case

Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Wrongful Death, Suicides

suicide at the Nassau County Jail. The jury found the county and its medical contractor, Armor Correctional Health Services, were negligent and had violated Ryan’s constitutional rights. Ryan ...

$5.75 Million Payout in Death of Rikers' Prisoner Denied Medical

Article • January 3, 2018

Filed under: Corizon, Diabetes, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

filed in federal district court in Manhattan. “I don’t think anyone can recall a case where the abuse and mistreatment was more egregious.” Corizon Health, a private health care provider ...

Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against County Jail in New York

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

Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Medication, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

County Jail in New York in April 2017, alleging that the facility and its medical contractor, Correctional Medical Care, wrongfully withheld medication that could have prevented his death. The complaint ...

JPAY New York State Contract, 2017

Publication • August 16, 2017

Filed under: JPay, Inc.

JPAY New York State Contract, 2017

New York State Attorney General Settles Suit Against Jail’s Medical Provider

Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Systemic Medical Neglect, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

against Armor Correctional Health Services, the medical provider for the jail in Nassau County. The suit alleged a dozen prisoners had died at the facility, in large part due to substandard medical care ...

Medical Provider Blamed for Deaths at New York Jail Replaced by Another Contractor ... Then Another

Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Primecare Medical, Correctional Medical Care, Contractor Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

refused to give the families of Tommie Lee Jones and Daniel Pantera the satisfaction of terminating the county jail’s contract with for-profit healthcare provider Armor Correctional Health Services ...

Sanchez v. NY Correct Care Solutions Medical Services, et al., NY, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2017

Brief • April 28, 2017

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, Pain, Injury -- Misc., Jail Specific, Wrongful Death, Fourth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights

Sanchez v. NY Correct Care Solutions Medical Services, et al., NY, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2017 Case 6:16-cv-06826-CJS Document 14 Filed 04/28/17 Page 1 of 63 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...

Ryan v. County of Nassau, NY, Verdict, PTSD Suicide, 2017

Brief • April 12, 2017

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Private Contractors, Contractor Liability, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides

County Sheriff's Department, Armor Correctional Hea~th Services, Inc., and Armor Correctional Health Services of New York, Inc., Defendants. ------------------------------------x SEYBERT, District Judge ...

New York Counties, Corizon Reach $1.85 Million Settlement in Detainee’s Death

Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017

Filed under: Corizon, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Medical Misconduct, Medical, Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Private Contractors, Medical Expenses, Misdiagnosis, Failure to Treat, Immigration, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Medical Neglect/Malpractice

New York Counties, Corizon Reach $1.85 Million Settlement in Detainee’s Death by Two New York counties agreed to pay $1.85 million to settle a lawsuit over the July 2011 death of detainee ...

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