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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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Puerto Rico Independent Prison Medical Services Contractor Not Employee

Article • November 15, 2011

Filed under: Medical, Private Contractors, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act

that an physician who was an independent contractor providing medical services in Puerto Rico prisons was not an employee of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOCR) or Correctional Health Services ...

No Immediate Appeals for Injunction Clarifications

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Injunctions (PLRA), Settlements, Injunctions, Contempt (Civil Procedure), Appeals

No Immediate Appeals for Injunction Clarifications by by Matthew T. Clarke This appeal involves the latest round in a Byzantine conditions-of-confinement class-action civil rights suit by Puerto Rico prisoners which has been pending since 1979. At issue was the transition of the prisoner health care system from the jurisdiction 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 …