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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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private prison companies, CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA) and GEO Group, are actively pushing governments to consider the use of private financing to build new facilities ...
the prison and jail boom, this economic aspect of prisons has spawned some myths that often get in the way of effectively opposing mass incarceration. The first of these is the idea that private prison ...
” work program. “I didn’t go more than a month without a job,” said Guzman, who spent almost 20 months waiting, and working, inside Stewart while his immigration case was resolved. In private prisons ...
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
prisons conducted by Washington State University graduate student Shawn Genter found that in states with private prisons, new prisons impeded economic growth. Genter suggested that prisons impede employment ...
is prepared. Taking back food operations from a private contractor is “quite unprecedented for a department of corrections,” noted Aramark spokeswoman Sarah Jarvis. In addition to Florida, Aramark has suffered ...
bitten by dogs while incarcerated at a private prison in Oklahoma. Jonathan K. Lum, John Daffron and Frank Frisbee are Hawaiian state prisoners who were incarcerated at the Diamond Back Correctional ...
Flurry of Escapes Emphasizes Prisoners' Desperation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Last September produced a bumper crop of prison and jail escapes around the country, including a desperate escape by two Texas prisoners that resulted in the death of a guard, a car jacking and two shootouts. Plus a …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
environmental stuff. We?re mostly working on Corrections stuff.? In 2003 Allen was chairman of the House Corrections Committee. Even then he was active in lobbying out-of-state for private prison interests ...
; St. Petersburg Times; First Coast News; Miami Herald; New York Times; Palm Beach Post; The Ledger; Orlando Sentinel; Florida Today; Associated Press; Herald Tribune; Los Angles Times; News Journal ...
Fair Labor Standards Acts Minimum Wage Provision Not Applicable to Private Prisons by Fair Labor Standards Acts Minimum Wage Provision Not Applicable to Private Prisons The Seventh Circuit ...
in that private prison than he's seen the whole five years he's been in. He says the brutality is horrible. It's a harsh, harsh life." In recent years, a variety of other, alarming revelations have beset ...
the past decade, private prisons have made a comeback. Already 28 states have passed legislation making it legal for private contractors to run correctional facilities and many more states are expected ...
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