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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 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 ...
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
More Unsealed PrimeCare Settlements Total $1.2 Million for Pennsylvania Jail Deaths by Privately owned prison and jail healthcare provider PrimeCare Medical has managed to keep details ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
In Failure-to-Treat Claims, Wellpath Denied Dismissal in Virginia, Settles in Pennsylvania by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 11, 2024, private prison and jail healthcare ...
County Booking Center (DCBC), PrimeCare Medical, in a suit accusing them of failing to treat a detainee who died in custody of a fatal fentanyl overdose. However, the Court affirmed denial of a claim ...
Third Circuit Unhappy with Federal Detainee’s Denied Marriage Request at Pennsylvania GEO Group Lockup by On September 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit revived a claim by Brian Davis, a Jamaican national held for four years at Pennsylvania’s Moshannon Valley Correctional Center (MVCC). The prison …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Primecare Medical, Suicides
Unsealed Settlement Reveals PrimeCare Medical Paid $337,500 After Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 12, 2023, the U.S. District Court ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
’s Bucks County Correctional Facility (BCCF), the county has agreed to pay a total of $959,000. Its privately contracted jail healthcare provider, PrimeCare Medical, reportedly agreed to pay another ...
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
-operated county lockup. GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison operator, has managed the jail since 1998, when the firm was still known as Wackenhut and entered a private-public partnership ...
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
; As a condition of the monetary settlement, Clark relinquished any and all claims against defendants, including Chester County and its prison health care contractor, PrimeCare Medical, Inc. See: Clark v. Feliciano ...
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$23,000 Settlement Against Pennsylvania Dental Healthcare Company for Inadequate Dental Care by Charles Talbert settled with Correctional Dental Associates (CDA) and Dental Practitioner Dr. Schneider for $23,000 in a lawsuit brought by him for inadequate dental treatment while housed in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons (PDP). While being held in …
:rectional Officer Steven Jones, Correctional Officer Andrew Fe~ther, Co11·ectional Officer Victor Wallace, Nurse Ashley Harringto~; Nurse Practitioner Martha Champlin, Warden D. Edward McFadden, PrimeCare ...
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Audits Reveals Problems With Privatized Food Service at Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Two audits released July 20, 2020 revealed a series of shortcomings by a food service contractor tasked with providing meals to juvenile detainees and in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County. Florida-based contractor Trinity Services …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Privatized Food Service Problems at Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A recent audit at an Allegheny county jail revealed a series of shortcomings by a food service contractor tasked with providing meals to prisoners. Florida-based contractor Trinity Services Group was paid $3.5 million to provide …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
for the Third Circuit reinstated some of the claims brought by a couple seeking permission to marry, one of whom is an immigration detainee being held in a private prison operated by GEO, under contract ...
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut
, spawning a number of wrongful death lawsuits that claimed rampant understaffing had created a dangerous environment for prisoners and guards. In 2008, Community Education Centers (CEC) took over the GWH ...
Article • October 5, 2020
PrimeCare, Berks County Prisoner Who Loses Leg Agree to $850,000 Settlement by PrimeCare Medical agreed to an $850,000 settlement in a civil rights action alleging it failed to provide care ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
PrimeCare Medical Pays Bulk of $252,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Detainee’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A $252,000 settlement was reached in October 2019 in a lawsuit ...
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Pennsylvania GEO-Run Jail Boss Resigns After Media Reveals Complaints of Racism, Abuse at Private Prison by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The superintendent of Pennsyl­vania&rsquo ...
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Private Prison in Pennsylvania Takes Heat; Prison Board Replaced, Superintendent Retires by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 25, 2019, Pennsylvania’s Delaware County ...
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Corizon, Medical
by Corizon Health, the medical contractor at the county’s jail, for failing to feed a prisoner, which led him to go into cardiac arrest, according to court records. The prisoner, Christopher Wallace ...
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