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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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of a private prison transport driver for violating the civil rights of detainees. Anthony Buntyn, 56, a former driver for private prison transport firm Prisoner Transportation Services (PTS) of America ...
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
No Summary Judgment for Private Transportation Company in Maryland Detainee’s Suit Alleging “Horrific” 2,000-Mile Journey by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Over nine days in December 2015 ...
Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020
in order to determine whether for-profit companies like PTS are complying with federal laws and regulations. “DOJ appears to be failing to provide critical oversight of private prisoner transportation ...
"can increase the cost offan1ilies staying in touch by pho11e v.rith loved ones \iVho arc incarcerated by as 1nuch as 40%." 12 Si1nilarly, the correctional medical care i11dustry is experie11cing ...
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
. A July 2016 analysis by The Marshall Project found that private prisoner transportation companies were involved in over 50 crashes, 60 escapes and 19 deaths since 2000. The nonprofit news organization also ...
Florida District Court Allows Suit Against Prisoner Transport Companies to Proceed by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell On July 30, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District ...
, increasingly states and municipalities are outsourcing these functions to private prisoner transportation companies, like the PTS Defendants. 21. The PTS Defendants provide extradition and secure transportation ...
Brief • April 4, 2018
transport company in the United States, the Transport Defendants treat countless prisoners like they did Meghan. The Transport Defendants routinely create inhumane conditions for their prison transportees ...
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
Merger of Prisoner Transport Companies Delayed after Objections Filed by Derek Gilna Prisoner Transportation Services, also known as PTS of America, LLC, bills itself as the “largest ...
Publication • August 8, 2016
by The New York Times and the Marshall Project. That article describes a number of failings and problems with private prisoner transport companies, including the 2012 death of Steven Galack, 46, who died while ...
Casias v. New Mexico DOC, NM, Complaint, Prisoners Left in Hot Van, 2016 Case 1:16-cv-00056-JMC-SCY Document 2 Filed 01/25/16 Page 5 of 29 Case 1:16-cv-00056-JMC-SCY Document 2 Filed 01/25/16 Page 6 of 29 Case 1:16-cv-00056-JMC-SCY Document 2 Filed 01/25/16 Page 7 of 29 Case 1:16-cv-00056-JMC-SCY Document 2 Filed 01/25/16 Page …
Privatized Prisoner Transportation Service Poses Problems by David Reutter Privatized Prisoner Transportation Service Poses Problems by David M. Reutter Several lawsuits against the self ...
Article • October 9, 2015
is governed by minimal federal guidelines. Prisoner transportation companies are required to notify local law enforcement only if they have a scheduled stop in that state. They are also required to conduct ...
Brief • September 16, 2013
Filed under: Transport Companies
prisoner transport company organized under the laws of the State of Nevada, with its principal place of business in the State of California, and is engaged in the business of providing private interstate ...
TransCor May Face Punitive Damages for Prisoner's Death by Christopher Zoukis TransCor America, LLC, a for-profit prisoner transportation company and subsidiary of Corrections Corporation ...
Curtis v. Transcor America, LLC, IL, Deposition of Seiter, Transportation Heatstroke Death, 2012
Brief • June 11, 2012
or Detainee Services (collectively, “Jeanna’s Act”). 2. Defendant Extradition Transport of America, L.L.C. (“Defendant”) is a private prisoner transport company registered as a limited liability company ...
Article • May 15, 2011
U.S. Extradition Services Settles Wrongful Death Suit by By Brandon Sample The family of a prisoner who was killed while being transported by a private prison transport company has agreed ...
. TransCor, a subsidiary of private prison firm Corrections Corp. of America (CCA), transports prisoners nationwide. TransCor guards Michael Jerome Edwards and David Jackson forced Schoenfeld to expose her ...
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