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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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Correctional Health  Akima Global Services Centene/MHM  CoreCivic CMGC  Emerald Correctional Corizon  G4S Correct Care  GEO Group, The Correct Rx  LaSalle Southwest NaphCare  MTC Wexford  Sodexo ...
to as “CCA/CoreCivic” in this document), GEO Group, and Management & Training Corporation (MTC). Of these companies, CCA/CoreCivic currently operates only in the United States, but the other two have expanded ...
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 ...
Florida Courthouse Employees Commit Crimes with “Alarming Regularity” by A local news station reported on March 29, 2016 that Joseph Safonte, 72, was placed on desk duty after becoming the target of an internal investigation into the theft of items from the lost and found at the courthouse in Broward …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle on April 10, 2014, protesting the Foundation’s investments in the GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in the U.S. The demonstrators urged the Gates ...
; Besides providing security services, it also operates private prisons and immigration detention centers, provides electronic tagging (monitoring) for offenders on community supervision and has a prisoner ...
. "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 ...
Article • May 7, 2014
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 …
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 ...
Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period …