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, Centurion Managed Care, have been under investigation by the Vermont Defender General’s Prisoners’ Rights Office (PRO) and the law firm of Downs Rachlin Martin after the death of Kenneth Johnson
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. This has translated to overcrowded and inhumane living conditions. Statistics show that privateprisons see an increased rate of assaults (both on other prisoners and staff), use of force incidents, and lock
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Reuters Investigation: Lamentable Medical Care in Jails and Prisons Exposed During Pandemic by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian Very few criminal offenses in America allow for a sentence of death. Nevertheless, too many people are dying in jails and prisons while serving a sentence or simply waiting for the process …
Centurion Opts Out of Mississippi Prison Medical Contract
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
Citing Mississippi’s refusal to invest in prison facilities and staff, private medical
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, the infirmary was run by CorrectCareSolutions (CCS), the corporate predecessor of Wellpath, both Tennessee-based firms. One of the country’s largest private healthcare providers to prisons and jails
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Nearly Killed by Dehumanizing Culture of Indifference, Oregon Prisoner Sues for $975,000 by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Oregon prisoner Carl Spieler, 56, suffered for three months after he was admitted to the state penitentiary in Salem in May 2018, while prison medical staff, convinced he was malingering, dismissed his …
Audits Reveals Problems With Privatized Food Service at Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Two audits released July 20, 2020 revealed a series of shortcomings by a food service contractor tasked with providing meals to juvenile detainees and in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County. Florida-based contractor Trinity Services …
CoreCivic Faces Liability for Wiretap Act Violations in Nevada Case by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that each interception of an attorney’s privileged telephone is a violation of the federal and Nevada Wiretap Acts. As such, the statute of limitations is triggered …
, CoreCivic alleged that Morgan Simon, a member of the activist group Families Belong Together, had smeared the company when she called on big banks to stop financingprivateprison companies. Among
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, Presente.org, Real Money Moves, Make the Road New York, CREDO, Little Sis, and ICCR organized over 500 in-person actions and 600,000 petitions nationwide calling for an end to privateprisonfinancing. After
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) and their privateprison contractor, the GEO Group, for their lies to the court and “abominable performance” in protecting immigrant detainees from COVID-19 at the Mesa Verde Detention Center near
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as the sole defendant.
According to the complaint, as early as 2009 McDermott began alerting NMCD officials to problems with its contracted health-care provider — Corizon (then known as CMS) &mdash
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;s second-largest privateprison operator with 2019 revenues of $1.981 billion.
According to a report by The Jackson Sun, CoreCivic’s four Tennessee prisons have a suicide rate nearly double
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leading health-care contractors — Corizon, Wellpath Holdings Inc., NaphCare, PrimeCareMedical Inc. and ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices Inc. — death rates ran anywhere from 18% to 58% higher
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CoreCivic and Securus Technologies Agree to Pay $3.7 Million to Settle Suit for Illegally Recording Attorney-Client Conversations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 31, 2020, a motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri revealing that CoreCivic and Securus Technologies (Defendants) had …
$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract
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Corizon Health paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it beached a contract with Nursefinders.
The February 26, 2016, settlement
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NBA Owner Capitalizes on Mass Incarceration; Players Silent by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Members of National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) maintained their place at the forefront of the movement for racial justice even while encapsulated in the National Basketball Association (NBA) bubble during the 2020 championship playoffs. The basketball …
by sheriff’s deputies and a jail nurse, Michelle Heughins, an employee of the jail’s for-profit health-care provider, Wellpath, formerly known as CorrectCareSolutions.
Over the next 45 minutes
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Federal Judge Approves $25 Million Class Action Settlement Against Global Tel*Link by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On October 22, 2020, New Jersey federal district court Judge William J. Martini ended a seven-year class action brought by New Jersey Department of Correction (DOC) prisoners complaining of excessive phone fees levied …
, news broke in March 2020 that Louisiana-based privateprison firm LaSalleManagementCompany had settled for $177,500 a lawsuit over a 2016 incident in which five prisoners were pepper-sprayed while
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