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Rodesky v. Wexford, IL, Jury Verdict, Medical Neglect, 2021 1:15-cv-01002-JEH # 161 Page 1 of 2 E-FILED Saturday, 04 December, 2021 09:09:43 AM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD JURY VERDICT FORM 1. We, the jury, find as follows on Plaintiffs Eighth Amen dment claim against Randy Pfister: (Place an 11X …
ABA’s Private Prisons Prophecy Comes to Pass by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Prison populations exploded in every state across the country during the 1980s and ‘90s. It was during ...
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Fourth Circuit Holds CoreCivic Immigration Detainees in New Mexico Not “Employees” Under FLSA by A panel of judges in the Fourth Circuit agreed with the dismissal of an appeal brought by former ICE detainees held by CoreCivic at their Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, New Mexico. The ruling was …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
this year, the state passed a bill banning private prisons, and other bills like it have been passed in California and elsewhere. The work program at the Northwest ICE Processing Center has since been halted ...
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
San Luis Obispo County Jail Conditions Violate Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On August 31, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division released a report detailing its investigation concerning the conditions inside San Luis Obispo County Jail. The findings of the report, conducted …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
, a private-prison company. Charles Overby is a celebrated instructor of journalism at UM. Among these other accolades, Overby served as the executive editor of the Jackson, MS newspaper, The Clarion-Ledger ...
Brief • November 4, 2021
State of WA v GEO Group, WA, Amended Civil Judgment, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05806-RJB Document 633 Filed 11/04/21 Page 1 of 1 1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 5 6 STATE OF WASHINGTON, 7 Plaintiff, 8 THE GEO …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$8.6 Million Award Against Wexford for Deliberate Indifference to Prisoner’s Kidney Cancer by An Illinois prisoner was awarded $11 million by a federal jury in a lawsuit alleging doctors with Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (Wexford), were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by failing to treat his kidney cancer. …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$23,000 Settlement Against Pennsylvania Dental Healthcare Company for Inadequate Dental Care by Charles Talbert settled with Correctional Dental Associates (CDA) and Dental Practitioner Dr. Schneider for $23,000 in a lawsuit brought by him for inadequate dental treatment while housed in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons (PDP). While being held in …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
in September 2021 by a former California prisoner, Adam Cain [See: Adam Cain v. JPay Inc. USDC, C. Dist. CA, 2:21-cv-07401-FLA-AGR]. When he left Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Cain was given the cash in his ...
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
to 2015, Correct Care Solutions, now known as Wellpath LLC, held a contract with the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) to provide medical care to every person in DOC’s custody. The contract paid ...
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Arizona Federal Court Dismisses NAACP’s Challenge to Private Prisons as Violating Thirteenth Amendment by Commodifying Prisoners for Profit by An Arizona federal court dismissed a civil ...
-run private prison, the Coffee County Correctional Facility. At 41 years of age, charges stated that Burnett smuggled drugs, cell phones, and other items into the prison for gang members. She and 47 ...
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$750,000 Settlement in South Carolina Pretrial Detainee’s Suicide by Southern Health Partners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 17, 2021, Southern Health Partners paid $750,000 to resolve a lawsuit alleging it failed to take proper steps in caring for a pretrial detainee who entered South Carolina’s Marlboro …
Brief • October 29, 2021
State of WA v. GEO Group, WA, Jury Verdict 2, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05769-RJB Document 519 Filed 10/29/21 Page 1 of 1
Brief • October 27, 2021
State of WA v. GEO Group, WA, Jury Verdict 1, Minimum Wage in Detention Centers, 2021 Case 3:17-cv-05769-RJB Document 508 Filed 10/27/21 Page 1 of 1
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
, disclosed that it allowed Boca Raton private prison contractor The GEO Group to get away with making hundreds of thousands of dollars of otherwise illegal contributions to Super PACs. The Federal Election ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Commission of Correctional Health Care standards, which were also used in DOC contracts, first with Corizon and later with Centurion. “Over the past six years, Defendants have consistently failed to meet ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
HRDC Case Sues JPay Over Fee-Heavy “Release Card” Debit Cards by A lawsuit filed in a California federal court on September 15, 2021, accuses private prison financier JPay, Inc. of violating ...
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Tennessee Department of Corrections Rebids $123 Million Health Care Contract After Corizon Accuses It and Centurion of Bid Rigging by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 10, 2021 ...
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