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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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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Gave Massive Handouts to ICE and Private Prison Industry by On July 4, 2025,President Donald Trump (R) signed into law a budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1 ...
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Trump’s “Border Czar” Was on GEO Group Payroll by Before Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) took office, his “border czar” Tom Homan worked as a consultant for GEO Group, Inc., one of the largest operators of immigrant detention facilities in the country.  The revelation, as the Washington Post reported, raises …
GEO Group Gets $1 Billion ICE Contract at New Jersey Lockup by On February 26, 2025, then-acting federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Caleb Vitello announced a 15-year contract with The GEO Group, Inc. to reopen and expand its Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, which will …
operation in American history,” the stocks of private prison companies, including The GEO Group and CoreCivic, spiked after his election victory on November 5, 2024. Within 24 hours, GEO Group’s ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
GEO Group Just Wants to Be a Landlord for Oklahoma DOC by In June 2024, after Oklahoma failed to meet a $3 million pay hike demanded by The GEO Group, Inc., the private prison operator gave ...
Court Strikes Washington Statute to Regulate GEO Group’s Notorious ICE Lockup by The Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, Washington, owned by private prison giant The GEO ...
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
with private prison giant GEO Group, Inc. just over a month later, taking back operational control of its only privately operated prison, Lawrenceville Correctional Center (LCC), on August 4, 2024. The medium ...
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
) at a GEO Group lockup in El Centro, California. Injuries were reported to detainees and staff of the private prison giant, but the number and extent were unclear. The prison was immediately placed ...
migrants on May 18, 2023, versus 223,510 on May 26, 2023 – a miniscule variation of less than 2.5%. What’s less hard to believe is that ICE simply regurgitated data fed to it by its private ...
Third Circuit Unhappy with Federal Detainee’s Denied Marriage Request at Pennsylvania GEO Group Lockup by On September 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit revived a claim by Brian Davis, a Jamaican national held for four years at Pennsylvania’s Moshannon Valley Correctional Center (MVCC). The prison …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
No Data to Prove Whether $600-Million California Parole Effort Worked by Results of a yearlong investigation released on July 10, 2023, found that a state-funded rehabilitation program for California parolees started in 2014—Specialized Treatment for Optimized Programming (STOP)—has cost taxpayers $600 million, with little evidence to prove it is working. …
.29.] GEO Group, also publicly traded, owns psychiatric hospital subsidiary GEO Care; electronic monitoring firm BI, Inc.; and halfway house operator Community Education Centers. HIG Capital, a private ...
of 50 people gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington. They were there to support a hunger strike staged by some 100 detainees held inside by private prison giant GEO ...
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
lawsuit alleging that private prison operator The GEO Group misled investors in its stock, causing them to suffer losses. For the last three decades, GEO Group has contracted with the Federal Bureau ...
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
with privately operated detention facilities. DOJ is the parent agency of both the federal Bureau of Prisons, which uses no private prisons, and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), which uses nothing else. The order ...
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
-operated county lockup. GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison operator, has managed the jail since 1998, when the firm was still known as Wackenhut and entered a private-public partnership ...
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
obtained documents revealing that private prison operator GEO Group, Inc., formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp., paid $10 million to settle two lawsuits brought by the family of a prisoner who ...
Brief • July 13, 2022
harms to the safety 14 and welfare of those detained in private detention facilities, . . . exploitive conditions for 15 detainees, and [private prisons’] prioritiz[ing of] profits over inmate ...
Brief • June 21, 2022
as November 7, 2018 through August 5, 2020, JPMorgan Chase Co. (“JPMorgan”) was the largest lender to private prison operators, including GEO. Wells Fargo & Company (“Wells Fargo”) and Bank of America ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$316,673 Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Stabbing at GEO-Operated Private Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 1, 2021, the New Mexico Corrections Department ...
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