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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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$2,220,000 Settlement To Missouri Prisoners Formerly Housed In Texas by Over seven hundred Missouri state prisoners, who were formerly housed as part of a bed-sharing program in Texas prison facilities from January 1, 1995, through December 31, 1997, filed a Federal class action civil rights complaint regarding conditions of confinement …
of scandal and corruption. Money Trail For over three years Whitworth earned $3,000 a month as a paid consultant for the Bobby Ross Group, a Texas-based private prison company. BRG specializes ...
. The jail was operated by the Bobby Ross Group, a private prison company. In 1997 a video surfaced, which was shown on national television, in which jail guards were shown beating and abusing prisoners ...
Out-of-State Prisoner Housing Contracts Subject to Long-Arm Jurisdiction by A federal court in Missouri has held that Missouri prisoners whose incarceration was contracted to Brazoria County, Texas, could sue Brazoria County in Missouri. This is a lawsuit filed in Missouri federal district court by Missouri state prisoners who were abused …
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
vendors who want to ply their trade in the state of Texas. One of those vendors, the Bobby Ross Group, operates the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC) in West Texas. DCCC has been the site ...
(e). Thinh Minh Luong is a Hawaii state prisoner transferred to the Dickens County Corrections Center, a private prison operated by the Bobby Ross Group in Texas. Luong is an admitted long time ...
announced that it planned to investigate the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC). The facility is operated by the Bobby Ross Group, based in Austin, Texas. It is one of many small "Rent-a-Jails ...