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PLN Prevails in Public Records Suit Against GEO Group

Loaded on June 15, 2010 by Alex Friedmann published in Prison Legal News June, 2010, page 29

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Disclosure of Records, Freedom of Information Act, Media, PLN Litigation. Location: Florida.

In May 2010, Prison Legal News announced that it had prevailed in a public records lawsuit filed against Florida-based GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections), the nation’s second-largest private prison company.

PLN filed the suit in 2005 under Florida’s public records law after GEO failed to produce documents related to contractual ...

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