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funding, citing potential losses of up to $3 million a month and stating, “it is our intent to cease the delivery of correctionalhealthservices.” [See: PLN, April 2012, p.24]. The Texas
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, a Pennsylvania state jury slapped PrisonHealthServices (PHS) with a $400,000 verdict for inadequate medical care of a prisoner at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Albion. The award was reduced to $312,000
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Unfortunately, like other privateprison medical care companies, Wexford has a poor track record in terms of placing profits over adequate treatment for prisoners. [See: PLN, June 2011, p.12; Dec. 2010, p.27; Nov
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Ethics Complaint Against Former Oregon Prison Official Dismissed by As previously reported in PLN, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,020-per-year position with the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) in March 2011. He had been employed as an assistant administrator with the ODOC’s Health Services Division, and served on a …
medical contractor, PrimeCareMedical, as defendants. Shortly after Johnson’s arrest on February 22, 2007 for violating a restraining order against trying to contact his wife, he began complaining
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Corizon Healthcare, the result of combining PHS Correc-tions and Correctional Medical Services; MHM Services Inc.; ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices Inc.; Correct Care Solu-tions; the Birmingham, Alabama
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the taxpayers more.”
That is particularly true considering the Florida Department of Corrections has contracted with two for-profit companies to provide prisoner medical care: Corizon and WexfordHealthServices
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; the latter company was formed following the merger of PrisonHealthServices and Correctional Medical Services in June 2011.
In April 2012, Wexford was awarded a three-year, $349 million contract. This works
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$1 Million Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In May 2011, Oklahoma County approved a $1 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit involving a prisoner who was first denied his anti-seizure medication and then fatally beaten by guards after he had …
Richardson v. Crawford County Correctional Facility, PA, Amended Complaint, Failure to Treat, Medical, 2012 Case 1:10-cv-00275-DSC-SPB Document 60 Filed 02/23/12 Page 1 of 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA – ERIE Gary L. Richardson, Plaintiff ) ) v. ) No. 1: 10 cv …
Former Oregon Prison Official Faces Ethics Probe by In March 2011, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,000-a-year job as an assistant administrator for the Health Services Division of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). Three days earlier he had been hired by Correctional Health Partners (CHP), a private medical …
million a year.
GEO’s rising profitability is a result of the company’s capacity to change with the times. While the War on Drugs and facility construction were the cash cows of the privateprison industry
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and unresponsive in his cell at the Bent County Correctional Facility, a privateprison in southeastern Colorado. The official cause of death was listed as cardiac hypertrophy, or an enlarged heart. But Lagalia
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CMS Nurses Disciplined in Kentucky Prisoner’s Death
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The Kentucky Board of Nursing has disciplined two nurses who were on duty when a prisoner died one day after he was booked
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that an physician who was an independent contractor providing medical services in Puerto Rico prisons was not an employee of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOCR) or CorrectionalHealthServices
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Vermont Court Passes on Resolving Whether PrisonHealthServices is Subject to Vermont’s Public Records Act
by Brandon Sample
By Brandon Sample
A Vermont Superior Court passed on resolving
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Summary Judgment Reversed in Vermont DOC’s Suit Against Matrix Health Systems by On March 14, 2008, the Supreme Court of Vermont reversed the trial court's granting of summary judgment to Matrix Health Systems in a suit filed by the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) alleging breach of a two-year contract …
ICE, CCA Settle ACLU Lawsuit Regarding Health Care for Immigration Detainees by Derek Gilna A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union that alleged deficiencies in health care at the San Diego Correctional Facility (SDCF) in Otay Mesa, California has been settled, according to a December 16, 2010 press …
Oklahoma County Jails Responsible For Initial Cost of Treating Prisoner’s Pre-Existing Condition by David Reutter Oklahoma County Jail Responsible for Initial Cost of Treating Prisoners’ Pre-Existing Conditions by David Reutter The Oklahoma Supreme Court has held that a county’s liability for prisoners’ medical care includes pre-arrest health conditions. The Court …
of Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), while ASG owns PrisonHealthServices, Inc. (PHS) and CorrectionalHealthServices, LLC (CHS). Those three subsidiaries provide medical, dental, mental health, pharmacy
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