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contracts with several private for-profit prison operators
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including GEO, CoreCivic, Inc. (“CoreCivic”), and Management and TrainingCorporation
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(MTC). (Id. ¶ 37.) CoreCivic, GEO and MTC
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for-profit prison operators
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including GEO, CoreCivic, Inc. (“CoreCivic”), and Management and TrainingCorporation
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(MTC). (Id. ¶ 37.) CoreCivic, GEO and MTC are for-profit corporations with their
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$70,000 Settlement in Private Firm’s Failure to Treat Arizona Prisoner’s Broken Wrist
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
Corizon Health, Inc. agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a civil rights
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a privateprison run by CoreCivic in Florence, Arizona, claiming that staff has failed to protect its prisoners and the community from the coronavirus, according to a story in The Appeal and court records
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given day, in privateprisons that are operated in Arizona by privateprison
corporations, including The Geo Group, CoreCivic and Management & TrainingCorporation (“MTC”).
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sure correctionalhealthservices are being
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medical provider Corizon, had been wrong – leaving Collingwood with a heavy price to pay. He was also misdiagnosed by Corizon staff with Valley Fever and tuberculosis before going to the hospital
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Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) Director
More than half of the 21 Arizona Department of CorrectionsHealthServices Monitoring
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Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) Director
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Arizona Federal Court Levies Sanctions Against Corizon Health
by Edward Lyon
by Ed Lyon
Corizon Health, headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, is the nation’s largest privateprison
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to cut corners. They’re just playing with lives at a certain point.”
Since Centurion presumably follows the same profit-driven business model as Corizon and other private medical service
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scanned into the Corizon computer system. This was never produced.
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The results of the 6/13/2018 EKG taken at ASPC Tucson, Rincon Unit.
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;The Court must place a clear and focused light on what is happening here: the State turned to a privatecontractor which has been unable to meet the prisoner’s health care needs.”
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The Actions of PrivateContractors Performing
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health care company Corizon Health to oversee all medical, mental and dental care at 10 state prisons. However, that care has come under scrutiny in federal court.
In 2015, prisoners settled a lawsuit
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EEOC v. Corizon Health, AZ, Complaint, ADA Violations, 2018
Case 2:18-cv-02942-DLR Document 1 Filed 09/18/18 Page 1 of 36
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Mary Jo O’Neill, AZ Bar #005924
James P. Driscoll
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, Washington was one of the first jurisdictions to ban privately-operated facilities; the county passed legislation in August 2017 that prohibits contracts between the county and privateprison firms to house
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. This patient told the court that “ADOC
and Corizon delayed treating my cancer. Now because of there [sic] delay, I
may be luckey [sic] to be alive for 30 days. The delayed treatment they gave
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the health care needs of
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its inmates. If a privatecontractor is pushed to the door because it cannot meet the
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State’s obligations, then so be it. Such a result would flow directly from the state’s
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Parsons, et al. v. Ryan, et al., AZ, order, Corizon health care compliance, 2018
Case 2:12-cv-00601-DKD Document 2900 Filed 06/22/18 Page 1 of 14
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