Ruling in Prison Legal News v. Corrections Corporation of America

This document is a legal ruling released on November 5, 2015 by the Vermont Superior Court. The court ruled in favor of Prison Legal News (PLN), which had asked the court if the state's Access to Public Records Act applied to state contractors. PLN had invoked the public records act to request information from Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) pertaining to its contract from 2007 to early 2015 with the Vermont Department of Corrections. CCA refused to provide the information on the grounds that it was not subject to the state's public records act. The court disagreed . . .