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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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News in Brief

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 ...

Wellpath Subsidiary Out of Australian Women’s Prison After Indigenous Prisoner’s Death

Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023

Filed under: Private Contractors, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Wellpath Subsidiary Out of Australian Women’s Prison After Indigenous Prisoner’s Death by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 19, 2023, Corrections Minister Enver Erdogan announced that the Australian state of Victoria is booting the private healthcare contractor from the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC). Effective July 1, 2023, Wellpath …

In the Public Interest - An Examination of Private Financing for Correctional and Immigration Detention Facilities, 2018

Publication • June 1, 2018

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Staff Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Prison Industries, Workplace Injury, Work Conditions/Safety, Prison Gangs, Staffing, Security Systems, Guard Brutality/Beatings

private prison companies, CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA) and GEO Group, are actively pushing governments to consider the use of private financing to build new facilities ...

Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World, by Baz Dreisinger

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

Filed under: Private Prisons, Commentary/Reviews, International

in the 1994 Hutu genocide of nearly a million Tutsis. South Africa yielded another surprise with its emphasis on truth and reconciliation following the end of apartheid. In Australia, she learned that private ...

Australia, New Zealand and UK Have Higher Proportion of Prisoners in Private Prisons

Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017

Filed under: Private Prisons, Statistics/Trends

operated, too. New Zealand dropped private prison operator Serco as the private contractor for the Mount Eden Corrections Facility in 2016 after an investigation into “fight clubs” at the prison ...

Australia Uses Recidivism-Based Performance Contract at Private Prison

Article • February 7, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017

Filed under: Private Prisons, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Prison Reform, Overcrowding, Rehabilitation/Recidivism

Australia Uses Recidivism-Based Performance Contract at Private Prison by Currently a third of all Australian women prisoners return to prison following their release, but a new pilot ...

Report Says Prison Privatization Expanding Internationally

Article • October 16, 2015

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, G4S/Group 4, International, Immigration

. "Research to date on private prisons has found that they perform no better than publicly operated facilities, are not guaranteed to reduce correctional costs, and provide an incentive for increasing ...

Business is Booming for Prison Profiteers

Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Cornell Corrections, Political Prisoners, Commentary/Reviews, Private Contractors, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Parole, Probation, Prisoners-International, Immigration, Political Prisoners (International), Civil Commitment

million a year. GEO’s rising profitability is a result of the company’s capacity to change with the times. While the War on Drugs and facility construction were the cash cows of the private prison industry ...