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In Failure-to-Treat Claims, Wellpath Denied Dismissal in Virginia, Settles in Pennsylvania

Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024

Filed under: Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Dismissal

In Failure-to-Treat Claims, Wellpath Denied Dismissal in Virginia, Settles in Pennsylvania by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 11, 2024, private prison and jail healthcare ...

Virginia Takes Back One Prison from GEO Group, Closes Four More

Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024

Filed under: Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut

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 ...

Psychiatrist Settles Virginia Jail Suicide Suit for $1.75 Million

Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024

Filed under: Private Contractors, Settlements, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

Psychiatrist Settles Virginia Jail Suicide Suit for $1.75 Million by The leading cause of death among people held in local jails is suicide. The family of Christopher Lapp, 62, learned that the hard way when he killed himself at Virginia’s Alexandria Adult Detention Center in 2021, while being held on …

After Eight Deaths in Eight Years, Virginia Jail Introduces—Pickleball?

Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024

Filed under: Corizon, Private Contractors, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

in as many years before cutting ties with former healthcare provider Corizon Health in November 2021, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Mar. 2022, p.52.] The jail hired a new healthcare contractor, MEDIKO ...

Fourth Circuit Says Virginia May Require Muslim Prisoner to Purchase Prayer Oil From Vendor Also Selling Pork and “Idols”

Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022

Filed under: Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Religious Practices

Fourth Circuit Says Virginia May Require Muslim Prisoner to Purchase Prayer Oil From Vendor Also Selling Pork and “Idols” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) did not violate the …

Virginia DOC Terminates Contract with Armor Correctional Healthcare

Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Inadequate Health Care Facilities

Virginia DOC Terminates Contract with Armor Correctional Healthcare by Ashleigh Dye Plans to de-privatize prisoner healthcare by Ashleigh Dye On December 11, 2021, the Virginia Department ...

Wellpath Founder and CEO Pleads Guilty to Federal Bribery Charges

Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, Private Contractors, Federal Funds

that spanned the late 1980s and 1990s. There he glimpsed a vision of the future, in which privatization would be his golden ticket. He then began Prison Health Services, which later became Corizon Health ...

After Sixth Death in Six Years, Virginia Jail Cuts Ties with Corizon Health

Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022

Filed under: Corizon, Systemic Medical Neglect, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

After Sixth Death in Six Years, Virginia Jail Cuts Ties with Corizon Health by Jayson Hawkins, Keith Sanders Corizon Employee Charged with Falsifying Records by Jayson Hawkins and Keith ...

Seven Prisoners Died in 2021, One by Homicide, at Virginia’s Only Private Prison

Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)

Seven Prisoners Died in 2021, One by Homicide, at Virginia’s Only Private Prison by The Lawrenceville Correctional Center (LCC), Virginia’s only remaining for-profit prison, now also ...

GEO Group Puts Money, Lobbyist into Defeating Bill to Prohibit Private Prisons in Virginia

Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021

Filed under: Private Prisons, Lobbying, State Legislation

GEO Group Puts Money, Lobbyist into Defeating Bill to Prohibit Private Prisons in Virginia by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As Virginia was poised to consider a bill to end private ...

$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract

Article • December 1, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Private Contractors, Failure to Treat

$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract by Corizon Health paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it beached a contract with Nursefinders. The February 26, 2016, settlement ...

Major Prison Health Care Companies Funnel Campaign Contributions to Sheriffs, Get Rewards

Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

County. Wellpath was known as Correct Care Solutions until October of 2018. Correct Care obtained the contract to provide medical and mental health care to detainees at the Loudoun County Adult Detention ...

ACLU Virginia -- Women in the Criminal Justice System - Pathways to Incarceration in Virginia, 2018

Publication • August 1, 2018

Filed under: Private Prisons, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Racial Discrimination, Gay/Lesbian, War on Drugs, Jail Specific, Mental Health

ACLU Virginia -- Women in the Criminal Justice System - Pathways to Incarceration in Virginia, 2018 PHOTO: NARAL PRO-CHOICE OF AMERICA/FLICKR WOMEN IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: PATHWAYS TO INCARCERATION IN VIRGINIA Acknowledgement First and foremost, we would like to thank the residents of Friends of Guest House in Fairfax, …

Kovari v. U.S. Prisoner Transport and John Does, injuries during transport, complaint, 2018

Brief • April 24, 2018

Filed under: Transport Companies, Medical, Food, Overcrowding, Sanitation, Transportation, Federal Extradition Act, Staff Training, False Arrest, Fourth Amendment, rights, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights

, 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 ...

Austin v. Correct Care Solutions, VA, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2017

Brief • December 4, 2017

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, Pain, Injury -- Misc., Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Wrongful Death, Mental Health, Fourteenth Amendment, rights

Austin v. Correct Care Solutions, VA, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2017 Case 2:17-cv-00291-RJK Document 79-1 Filed 12/04/17 Page 1 of 101 PageID# 1128 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...

VA DOC PPEA Proposal, CCA, 2007

Publication • February 25, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

facility management services for adult males. Colorado Department of Corrections Alison Morgan, Private Prisons Monitoring Unit 2862 S. Circle Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80906 (719) 226-4929 Alison.Morgan ...

Virginia Must Improve Prison Medical Care Under Proposed Class-action Settlement

Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Corizon, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Consent Decrees

and bleeding. Armor Correctional Health Services resumed providing medical care at Virginia state prisons on October 1, 2014 – after Corizon ended its $76.5 million two-year contract with the VDOC ...

Scott v. Clarke, VA, Opinion Certifying Class - Women's Prison Medical and Dental Treatment (2014)

Brief • November 20, 2014

Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment

those prisons, such as the FCCW, where health care services are rendered by private contractors. Private contractors – for example, Corizon Health, Inc. (“Corizon”) and Armor Correctional Health Services ...

Class-Action Suit Claiming Inadequate Medical Care at Virginia Prison Set for Trial

Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

. The suit was filed in July 2012 on behalf of five women incarcerated at Fluvanna, and names as defendants the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC), Armor Correctional Health Services and both VDOC ...

Virginia Considers Privatizing State’s Civil Commitment Center

Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Liberty Behavioral Health Corp., Discrimination, Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Civil Commitment

– the latter being a subsidiary of private prison firm GEO Group. One potential incentive to privatize is to reduce the center’s operating costs, which are expected to rise. A 2011 study by the Department ...

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