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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 ...

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 ...

Negative Report Foreshadows End of G4S Juvenile Operations in UK

Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017

Filed under: Private Prisons, G4S/Group 4, Corrections Audits, Juveniles, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons

of the U.S.-based Management & Training Corporation, could take over. Around that same time, G4S won a contract for its renewed operation of Medway STC in Kent. However, G4S announced in February 2016 ...

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 ...

Security Giant Admits $38 Million Fraud

Article • May 7, 2014

Filed under: Private Prisons, G4S/Group 4, Contractor Misconduct, Staffing, Excessive Force

Security Giant Admits $38 Million Fraud by James Kilgore G4S, which bills itself as “the world’s largest security company,” has encountered rough going in the carceral marketplace in recent weeks. The latest episode in the troubles of this British-Danish security giant came with its public admission on November 18 that …

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 ...

Aramark Discontinues, Loses Prison Food Service Contracts

Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009

Filed under: Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Work, Prison Industries, Prison Labor, Prison Rebellion, Food

is prepared. Taking back food operations from a private contractor is “quite unprecedented for a department of corrections,” noted Aramark spokeswoman Sarah Jarvis. In addition to Florida, Aramark has suffered ...

Prison Privatization in England

Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993

Filed under: Private Prisons, Prisoners-International

that the running of existing prisons could be contracted out. As usual, the private companies competing for the market in private prisons are linked very close to the Conservative Party and to ex-civil servants ...

The Prison Privatization Debate

Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Labor, OB/GYN, Prisoners-International, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

." It is from within this context that we examine the privatization question. It should be clear from the foregoing that privatizing prisons would in no way diminish the fundamental nature of these institutions ...

Private Gulags in England

Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990

Filed under: Private Prisons, Prison Rebellion, Prisoners-International

Private Gulags in England by Mike Vukasinovic Private Gulags In England By Mike Vukasinovic Following the de-nationalized policies of the Tory government of the UK, plans are afoot to privatize new remand centers and the escort of prisoners to and from court. This announcement comes as a prison officer's revolt …