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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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Trinity Services Group Faces Complaints Due to Inadequate Prison and Jail Food

Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018

Filed under: Private Prisons, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Food

;in three separate incidents at the Cotton facility, where prisoners also complained about “crunchy dirt” in potatoes. [See: PLN, Feb. 2017, p.48]. After switching in 2015 from Aramark, another ...

Utah Democrat Defeated for Party Post Defeated After "Outing" as Private Prison Official

Article • October 3, 2014

Filed under: Private Prisons, Management and Training Corporation, Gay/Lesbian

; By Derek Gilna Her position as Vice-Chairman of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), third largest private prison operator in the United States, proved to be the undoing of Jane Marquardt, who ...

Utah: Private Company Offers to Pick Up Prison Tab

Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Organizing, Lobbying

request, one company has offered to pick up the entire bill for the state. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a company that touts itself as the nation’s largest and most experienced private prison ...

Utah Private Corrections Center Employees under Federal Indictment for Evidence Tampering

Article • May 15, 2012

Filed under: Cornell Corrections, Guard Misconduct, Disciplinary Hearings, Evidence, Drug Testing, Criminal Prosecution

Utah Private Corrections Center Employees under Federal Indictment for Evidence Tampering by A federal investigation resulted in criminal charges against two employees of a Salt Lake City, Utah corrections center for federal prisoners. A federal probe targeted Cornell Community Corrections Center, a private corporation that contracts to house prisoners who …

U.S. Extradition Services Settles Wrongful Death Suit

Article • May 15, 2011

Filed under: Transport Companies, Conditions of Confinement, Transportation, Accidents

U.S. Extradition Services Settles Wrongful Death Suit by By Brandon Sample The family of a prisoner who was killed while being transported by a private prison transport company has agreed ...

Indian Country Gets Stimulus Money ... to Build More Jails

Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010

Filed under: Private Prisons, Financing

Indian Country Gets Stimulus Money ... to Build More Jails by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Department of Justice, through the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, has brought stimulus money to Indian reservations – awarding $224 million to build and renovate tribal jails. The funding …

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 ...

$75,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Prisoner’s Suicide

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

Filed under: MHM Inc., Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mental Health, Suicides

of cast. The $75,000 settlement, to be paid by the jail’s mental health contractor, MHM, Inc., was termed a “cost of defense” settlement. See: Henderson v. Salt Lake County, USDC, D. Utah ...

Flurry of Escapes Emphasizes Prisoners' Desperation

Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008

Filed under: Classification, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Industries, Prison Labor, Sanctions (Disciplinary Hearings), Prison/Jail Murders, Escapes, Premises Liability, Suicides

Flurry of Escapes Emphasizes Prisoners' Desperation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Last September produced a bumper crop of prison and jail escapes around the country, including a desperate escape by two Texas prisoners that resulted in the death of a guard, a car jacking and two shootouts. Plus a …

Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share

Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Management and Training Corporation, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Failure to Protect (General), Immigration, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides, Assaults on Staff, Employee Litigation

Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts ...

Controversial Ex-Prison Official Lane McCotter Appointed Utah J.P.

Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, DOC/BOP misconduct, Court Access, Judiciary

out of office two months after the restraining chair incident, McCotter became a prison consultant and an executive for Management Training Corporation, a Utah-based private prison company. Meanwhile ...

Iraqi Dungeons and Torture Chambers Under New, American Trained Management

Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004

Filed under: Private Prisons, Management and Training Corporation, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Political Prisoners, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Prisoners-International, Military Prisons

director of the Arizona Department of Corrections (1995-2002) and as a consultant for the private prison firm Advanced Correctional Management. According to Donna Hamm, founder and Executive Director ...

Tide Turns Against Prison Privatization

Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, Cornell Corrections, Contractor Misconduct, State Legislation

Tide Turns Against Prison Privatization by North Carolina, Georgia, Utah and Louisiana are among states that experimented with private prisons and because of problems encountered have ...