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GEO Group Gets $1 Billion ICE Contract at New Jersey Lockup by On February 26, 2025, then-acting federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Caleb Vitello announced a 15-year contract with The GEO Group, Inc. to reopen and expand its Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, which will …
by their privately contracted provider, NaphCare, Inc.
One detainee at the Pierce County Jail in Tacoma lost his leg in 2018 after NaphCare staffers allegedly missed a blod clot that led to an infection, ultimately
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Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm by Historically, prisons and jails have been loathe to give prisoners access to technology. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) didn’t even allow prisoners regular access to telephone calls until 2009. Access to internet-based services, which the non-incarcerated take for granted, is …
Sixth Circuit Upholds $6.4 Million Jury Award Against Corizon Nurses For Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Alcohol Withdrawal
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
On August 16, 2024, the United
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investigation into Tennessee’s troubled Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC), which is operated for the state Department of Corrections (DOC) under contract by privateprison profiteer CoreCivic, Inc
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: Eat standard meals or nothing. At Huachuca Unit in Kingman, which is run for DCRR by privateprison contractor The GEO Group, cooking allegedly ceased, and prisoners were fed uncooked food. Prisoners
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Jeffrey Scott Wells, 54, a former Vice President of privateprison medical contractor Centurion Health caught colluding with a former Tennessee Department of Correction (DOC) official to rig bidding
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More Unsealed PrimeCare Settlements Total $1.2 Million for Pennsylvania Jail Deaths
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Privately owned prison and jail healthcare provider PrimeCareMedical has managed to keep details
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Sixth West Virginia Jailer Found Guilty After Detainee Death, Estate Dismisses Claims Against PrimeCareMedical Employees
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A former West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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Trump Tosses Toothless Biden PrivatePrison “Ban”
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Hours after taking office on January 20, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) issued an executive order reversing one from his predecessor
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El Salvador Offers Prison Space to PrivatePrison Shill Marco Rubio
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In a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on February 3, 2025, Salvadoran Pres. Nayib Bukele offered
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Ninth Circuit Remands Transgender Idaho Prisoner’s $2.63 Million Attorney Fee Award for Recalculation— Against Bankrupt Corizon Health Successor
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Transgender Idaho state prisoner Adree
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cost of this arrangement to prisoners’ health—not to mention $8 million in lawsuit settlement payments to them or their estates—was laid bare in agreements obtained from Centurion
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ForensicMedicalGroup (CFMG) was first contracted to provide healthcare at MCJ in 1984. As far back as 2007, a consulting firm warned that detainee healthcare was “inadequate and result[ed
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operation in American history,” the stocks of privateprison companies, including The GEO Group and CoreCivic, spiked after his election victory on November 5, 2024. Within 24 hours, GEO Group’s
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“Locked In, Priced Out”: Markups and Kickbacks in Prison Commissaries by Drawing from a research database of commissary pricing and markups culled from 26 state prison systems, a report published by The Appeal on April 17, 2024, found commissary prices “up to five times higher than in the community,” with …
Securus/JPay Video Calling Service Potentially Threatened by New Rate Caps by On November 19, 2024, prison telecom Securus Technologies, Inc., along with subsidiary JPay, notified users of services provided by the firms at prisons and jails of steps being taken to comply with a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order. …
Wellpath Declares Bankruptcy by On November 11, 2024, Wellpath Holdings, Inc., and its affiliated corporate entities filed for bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Wellpath is a private, for-profit medical and mental health care provider at approximately 420 detention facilities in 39 states; …
cobbled together from profitable pieces of what used to be Corizon Health, whose money-losing parts were shunted into another entity called Tehum Care Services, which has filed for bankruptcy. [See: PLN
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Turn Key Health Walks Away From Oklahoma County Jail by On October 9, 2024, Turn Key Health Clinics ended its contract to provide healthcare at the Oklahoma County Jail in Oklahoma City. The firm gave notice 30 days earlier, after winning just a one-year $7.4 million extension to the contract …
