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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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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 ...

Shackled South African Prisoner Beaten by GEO Guards Wins Lawsuit

Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Guard Misconduct, Retaliatory Searches, Failure to Treat, Body Cavity Searches, Water, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints

Shackled South African Prisoner Beaten by GEO Guards Wins Lawsuit by Derek Gilna In May 2016, private prison firm The GEO Group, which operates the maximum-security Louis Kutama Sinthumule ...

Mangaung and Beyond: Private Prison Exemplifies South Africa’s Criminal Justice Woes

Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014

Filed under: G4S/Group 4, Contractor Misconduct, Medical, Forcible Treatment, Prisoners-International, Guard Unions

Mangaung and Beyond: Private Prison Exemplifies South Africa’s Criminal Justice Woes by James Kilgore In recent months a battle has erupted at Mangaung prison in South Africa. Mangaung ...

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 ...

Wackenhut to Build Prison in South Africa

Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001

Filed under: Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Prisoners-International

African prisons are desperately overcrowded, so in 1997, the government began soliciting bids to build and manage four private prisons. Wackenhut and its local partners, incorporated as South African ...