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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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Ohio Supreme Court Says Sheriff Must Get and Disclose  Records of Private Contractors

Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025

Filed under: Private Prisons, Contractor Liability, Public Records Act

; since January 2014, at least. Community Educations Centers, Inc./GEO Group, Inc. operated the jail between January 2014 and sometime in 2019, when CSG took over, and Malone has been the contract monitor ...

Advanced Correctional Healthcare Ends Two Suits Over Deaths at Ohio Jail

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

Filed under: Private Contractors, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Advanced Correctional Healthcare Ends Two Suits Over Deaths at Ohio Jail by Private jail medical providers usually win contracts with promises to save a county money. But after two federal lawsuits filed in federal court for the Northern District of Ohio in 2023 against Ohio’s Richland County and its privately …

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 ...

NaphCare Nurse Faces Liability in Ohio Detainee’s Death from Sickle Cell Disease

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

Filed under: Naphcare, Contractor Liability, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

NaphCare Nurse Faces Liability in Ohio Detainee’s Death from Sickle Cell Disease by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 1, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed ...

Drug Enforcement and Policy Center-Private Prison Companies and Sentencing, Jan 2022

Publication • 2022

Filed under: Private Prisons

Drug Enforcement and Policy Center-Private Prison Companies and Sentencing, Jan 2022 DRUG ENFORCEMENT AND POLICY CENTER DEPC STUDENT PAPER SERIES Private Prison Companies and Sentencing Amy Pratt ...

Sixth Circuit Upholds Prisoner’s 18 U.S.C. § 111 Conviction for Assaulting Federally Contracted Private Prison Guard

Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021

Filed under: Private Contractors, Guards/Staff, Failure to Protect (Staff)

Sixth Circuit Upholds Prisoner’s 18 U.S.C. § 111 Conviction for Assaulting Federally Contracted Private Prison Guard by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 12, 2020, the Sixth Circuit ...

Ohio Jail’s Private Healthcare Provider Denied Summary Judgment in Failure to Treat Prisoner’s Fractured Pelvis

Article • March 5, 2019

Filed under: Naphcare, Pain, Injury -- Misc., Failure to Treat, Jail Specific, Fourth Amendment, rights, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights

. Prison Health Services, Inc., 769 F.2d 700 (11th Cir. 1985). Thus, the Court concluded that this claim against Plummer in his official capacity was really a suit against the County, so it also survived ...

Ohio Experiences Continued Problems with Aramark

Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018

Filed under: Aramark, Food

Ohio Experiences Continued Problems with Aramark by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) overpaid food service giant Aramark ...

Ohio Experiences Continued Problems with Aramark

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

Filed under: Aramark, Contractor Misconduct, Food

Ohio Experiences Continued Problems with Aramark by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) overpaid food service giant ...

Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Union's Challenge to Prison Privatization

Article • December 28, 2017

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Management and Training Corporation, Guard Unions

, management and sale of five specific prisons. Management and Training Corporation (MTC) and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) took advantage of the provision. MTC contracted to operate and manage North ...

Former Ohio Politician’s Negligence Case Against CCA Goes Forward

Article • December 22, 2017

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

Former Ohio Politician’s Negligence Case Against CCA Goes Forward by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis James Dimora, 61, was a Cuyahoga County, Ohio commissioner when he was indicted on federal racketeering and corruption charges in April 2012. While awaiting trial at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, operated by Corrections Corporation …

HRDC/PLN Obtain Landmark Nationwide Censorship Settlement with Private Prison Company

Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Publications/Books, PLN Litigation, Censorship, First Amendment

HRDC/PLN Obtain Landmark Nationwide Censorship Settlement with Private Prison Company by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On July 24, 2017, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent ...

HRDC v. Management & Training Corp, OH, Settlement, Censorship, 2017

Brief • July 24, 2017

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Publications/Books, PLN Litigation, Censorship

HRDC v. Management & Training Corp, OH, Settlement, Censorship, 2017 IN THE MATTERS OF: Prison Legal News v. Management & Training Corporation, et al Case No. 2:1&.cv-01174, U.S. District Court ...

HRDC v. Management & Training Corp, OH, Settlement, Censorship, 2017

Filing • July 24, 2017

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Publications/Books, PLN Litigation, Censorship

HRDC v. Management & Training Corp, OH, Settlement, Censorship, 2017 IN THE MATTERS OF: Prison Legal News v. Management & Training Corporation, et al Case No. 2:1&.cv-01174, U.S ...

Ohio Inspector General - Report of Investigation re Aramark, 2017

Publication • June 28, 2017

Filed under: Aramark, Corrections Audits, Food

Ohio Inspector General - Report of Investigation re Aramark, 2017 State of Ohio Office of the Inspector General RANDALL J. MEYER, Inspector General Report of Investigation AGENCY: OHIO DEPARTMENT ...

Despite Past Problems, Prison Privatization in Ohio May Expand

Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cost of Prison Systems, Totality of Conditions, Overcrowding

a stand against the private prison industry,” agreed Mike Brickner, senior policy director at the ACLU of Ohio. “We have to get people out of prisons and start reinvesting in things that work ...

Challenge to Ohio Private Prison Confinement Not Cognizable in Habeas Corpus

Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Habeas Corpus

Challenge to Ohio Private Prison Confinement Not Cognizable in Habeas Corpus by Mark Wilson The Ohio Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a prisoner’s habeas corpus petition ...

Will Ohio’s Prison Watchdog Agency be Silenced?

Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Government Misconduct, Corrections Audits

by Corrections Corporation of America. [See: PLN, Nov. 2014, p.44]. Further, CIIC inspections led the state to fine private food vendor Aramark $272,000 for maggot outbreaks in prison kitchens and multiple ...

Pittman v. Correctional Healthcare Companies Inc., OH, Complaint, Medical Care for Heroin Withdrawals, 2016

Brief • April 6, 2016

Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)

Pittman v. Correctional Healthcare Companies Inc., OH, Complaint, Medical Care for Heroin Withdrawals, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-00452-TSB Doc #: 1 Filed: 04/06/16 Page: 1 of 18 PAGEID #: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO WESTERN DIVISION DARLENE PITTMAN, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of …

Dimora v. Northeast Ohio Corrections Center, OH, Order, Inmate Injury, 2016

Brief • March 4, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Medical, Injury -- Misc., Conditions of Confinement, Eighth Amendment, Damages, Immunity/Liability

Dimora v. Northeast Ohio Corrections Center, OH, Order, Inmate Injury, 2016 Case: 4:14-cv-01221-BYP Doc #: 43 Filed: 03/04/16 1 of 9. PageID #: 386 PEARSON, J. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION JAMES DIMORA, Plaintiff, v. NORTHEAST OHIO CORRECTIONS CENTER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) …

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