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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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, and another private contractor, Management & Training Corporation (MTC), took over operations at the three facilities. MTC also manages the Wilkinson County Correctional Center in Woodville, Mississippi ...
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 …
an Inter-Governmental Agreement with the federal government that allowed federal detainees to be housed at BCDC, which was operated by private prison firm Cornell Corporation (which has since been acquired ...
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 ...
, Inc.) were acquired by larger companies. Four other firms went out of business (Bobby Ross Group, Capital Correctional Resources, Dove Development Corporation and Maranatha Production Company, LLC ...
private prison contractor Cornell Corrections, Inc. because Cornell’s grievance recordkeeping process was so inadequate that the question of administrative exhaustion could not be determined. In reversing ...
Prison Pays: Geo Corp Profits from Half-Way House Murder and Mayhem in Texas by Craig Malisow Despite a history of abuse and bad conditions, private-prison corporation GEO Group keeps getting ...
Fraudsters Sentenced in Cornell Prison Construction Scheme by Brandon Sample A man who bilked almost $13 million from Cornell Corrections Corp. has been convicted of federal fraud ...
of America (CCA), which was the final hurdle before awarding Cornell Corrections of Alaska (a subsidiary of Cornell Corrections) a contract worth $19,446,000 to house up to 900 Alaskan prisoners in an out ...
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 ...
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
accused of defrauding private prison operator Cornell Corrections of California, Inc. out of $13 million in a prison construction scam. A federal grand jury handed down indictments that included 20 counts ...
procedural compliance. The BOP contracted the building of a private prison in Clearfield County in 1999 with Cornell Corrections, Inc. (Cornell), to house over 1,000 federal prisoners. A 10 year deal ...
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Tobacco Smoke (ETS) suit against private prison contractor Cornell Corrections, Inc., because Cornell’s grievance record-keeping was so inadequate that the question of administrative exhaustion could ...
-year lease agreement. In 2005, CCA made a similar proposal to the leaders of Richmond, Virginia. Even private prison companies, which can serve as vehicles for back-door prison financing, are themselves ...
to for-profit private prison firms such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) and Cornell Corrections, while at the same time provided those companies with a safety net ...
of Columbia. Its donations totaled $184,983. Correctional Services Corp. (CSC), which was acquired by GEO after the study period, oversaw 8,000 prisoners in six states. CSC ponied up $128,390 in seven states ...
." 2) Sarro could not maintain a Bivens action against Cornell pursuant to Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko, 534 U.S. 61, 122 S.Ct. 515, 151 L.Ed.2d 456 (2001). 3) Neither Cornell nor the guards ...
prison operator should not have been dismissed on Eleventh Amendment immunity grounds. While confined in a prison operated by Cornell Corrections Corporation (CCC), Charles Akomolafe Abayomi was attacked ...
Article • May 15, 2007
to provide the U.S. Marshals Service with space for federal pre-trial detainees. The plaintiff initially sued the Detention Facility, which is a building, rather than the Cornell Corrections Corp. The court ...
Health Services (PHS), EMSA and Correctional Health Services all of which have horrendous track records of sacrificing prisoner health and safety in pursuit of larger profits executive compensation ...
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