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Failure of CMS Nurses and Doctor to Properly Treat Broken Leg Overcomes Summary Judgment
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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to a doctor and two
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$3.125 Million in Settlements in Oregon Prisoner’s Beating Death by On July 2, 2009, the estate and family of a mentally ill Oregon man who died in police custody settled claims against Multnomah County, a former deputy sheriff and jail nurses for $925,000. The case remained pending against the City …
, after entering default judgment against FirstCorrectionalMedical, Inc. (FCM). In other Delaware news, the state’s prison system did not renew its contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS
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of a controlled sub-stance.
Routine medical intake by the jail’s private healthcare provider, CermakHealthServices (Cermak), revealed only that Smith had elevated blood pressure, for which he received a week’s
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CMS Nurse Denied Summary Judgment for Failure to Treat Prisoner for Heat Illness;$400,000 Settlement Following Sixth Circuit Ruling
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
In February 2009
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Virginia Sheriff’s Office, PHS Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $1.6 Million
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PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a private for-profit company that provides medical care to prisoners, has agreed
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had breached a contract with MedicalDevelopmentInternational (MDI), a Florida-based company that provided medical services at two CDCR prisons but did not get paid for much of its work.
Responding
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on to CorrectionalHealthServices, and six months later the contract was assigned to Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Vermont dumped CMS on January 31, 2005 after a series of problems, including seven in-prison
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Florida Jail Prisoner Paralyzed by MRSA Sues PrisonHealthServices
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When Brett A. Fields entered Florida’s Lee County Jail to be booked on charges of criminal mischief, violating
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GEO Group Buys Just Care For $40 Million
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Geo Group, Inc., one of the country’s largest privateprison and detention operators, has agreed to acquire Just Care. Just Care operates a 354
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asked the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to create CorrectionalHealthServices (CHS) to assume responsibility over the medical care needs of prisoners in the jail system. By the time Betty Adams
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PrivatizedPrison Medical Care in Mississippi Still Problematic
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
Anyone looking for evidence that privatizedprison health care is a complete failure need
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Medical Care Mismanaged at Orange County, California Jail by Michael Brodheim A $36 million program designed to provide medical care to jail prisoners in Orange County, California is severely mismanaged, according to an internal performance audit. The audit found that the county Health Care Agency (HCA), which administers the jail’s …
Jail Guards Allowed to Assert Qualified Immunity Defense; Nurses Not by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Michigan federal district court’s decision that denied a group of jail guards qualified immunity in a case in which a prisoner died after complaining of chest pain and breathing problems. …
was taken to the D.C. Jail. While incarcerated at that facility his medical care was provided by a privatecontractor, Center for Correctional Health and Policy Studies, Inc. (CCHP).
When Magbie experienced
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Court Allows Deliberate Indifference Claim for Denial of Medication to Proceed by U.S. Magistrate Judge B. Janice Ellington has allowed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action to move beyond screening. The action, brought by a former Nueces County Jail prisoner, alleges that jail officials were deliberately indifferent in providing the …
Corizon Employee Orientation Manual 2009
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Terminal Incarceration by The short, sad lives of some detainees facing relatively minor charges end in jail. Here are three such cases. By Rob Jordan As she laid her head on her big sister's chest and listened to the heartbeats slow, Harolyn Frazier thought of opportunities lost. In the wake …
Court Halts Missouri Physician-Overseen Lethal Injection Execution; Blows Doctor’s Cover by A “secret” Missouri surgeon who has supervised 54 prisoner executions had his cover pulled and suffered immediate peer criticism, court restriction, and a media barrage. In tension were the Hippocratic Oath of doctors to sustain the life of their …
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PrisonHealthServices (PHS) is a contract medical provider for certain VDOC facilities. PHS’s contract requires that it “provide cost effective, quality inmate health care services for up
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