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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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Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Colorado Prisoner Forces Correctional Health Partners to Treat His Colon Disease by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After winning a temporary restraining order (TRO) directing the medical contractor for the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) to treat his colon disease, state prisoner Arthur Burnham’s location was unknown on September 10, …
Criminal Justice, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and People with Mental Illnesses, David Bazelon, SAMHSA, 2018 Criminal Justice, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and People with Mental Illnesses The Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Washington, DC Disclaimer This webinar was developed [in part] under contract number …
profit before any semblance of real care [See: PLN, June 2013, p.24]. Corizon Health won a $1.2 billion, five year contract to care for prisoners in about 44 prisons. Wexford Health Services received ...
Post1 Allegheny Correctional Health Services, Inc. and Allegheny County Health, Inc. are also “County Defendants” but did not join in the Motion for Summary Judgment. Case 2:09-cv-01221-DSC Document 131 ...
The Effects of Male Incarceration Dynamics on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Infection Rates among African American Women and Men, Chicago Journals, 2014 The University of Chicago The Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago The University of Chicago Law School The Effects of Male Incarceration Dynamics on Acquired …
of Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), while ASG owns Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) and Correctional Health Services, LLC (CHS). Those three subsidiaries provide medical, dental, mental health, pharmacy ...
Correctional Health Services (CHS) to provide medical treatment of questionable quality. Only days after being booked into SCMJ on a cocaine possession charge on June 7, 2006, William Francis Sams, 27, began ...
asked the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to create Correctional Health Services (CHS) to assume responsibility over the medical care needs of prisoners in the jail system. By the time Betty Adams ...
plus $230,000 in attorney fees. Four private companies, including Correctional Health Services, settled their liability separately for undisclosed amounts. Yolanda Padilla was 34 when her 17-year-old ...
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
, New Jersey, and Correctional Health Services (CHS) paid $700,000 to settle with the family of a man who died from insulin deficiency after being misdiagnosed at a county jail. Henry Sipp was arrested ...
to a serious medical need. This action was filed by a pretrial detainee against officials at New Jersey's Cape May County Jail and employees of Correctional Health Services (CHS). The detainee, a dual amputee ...