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Publication • June 1, 2022
Filed under: Centurion
Centurion of Florida, LLC- Providers Manual- June 2022 ~ ~ centurionCenturion of Florida, LLC Provider Manual Version 3.1 June 2022 ~ ~ Provider Manual centurion. Table of Contents ...
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
at the jail, which is run for the county by Tennessee-based private prison operator CoreCivic. In 2021 alone, CCDF recorded six deaths, including two previously reported by PLN: the suicide of Lisa Ann Trombley ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
2030. With it, the private prison contractor agreed to fill at least twelve day posts, eight night posts and thirteen 40-hour-a-week posts. After the firm flew in reinforcements, it said that CCDF ...
HRDC Wins Appeal in Florida Public Records Request Case Against Armor Correctional Health Services by In an opinion reached on December 1, 2021, Florida’s Third District Court ...
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 • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Corizon
Investment Firm Buys Corizon by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 30, 2020, Flacks Group, a Miami-based global investment firm, announced that it had purchased Brentwood, Tennessee-based ...
Article • October 29, 2020
, Florida, Police Department went to her home to question Woycenko, as well as her son, and her boyfriend. They made a decision to involuntarily commit her via Baker Act to New Horizons of the Treasure Coast ...
Article • October 4, 2020
$37,500 Settlement in Discrimination Suit Against Corizon Health by Corizon Health agreed to pay $37,500 to a former employee who alleged she was discriminated against based on race ...
$350,000 Settlement in Florida Detainee’s Suicide by Corizon Health agreed to pay $350,000 in a lawsuit that alleged it failed to provide mental health care to a pretrial detainee who ...
Article • October 4, 2020
$47,000 Settlement in Detainee’s Overdose Death Claim by Corizon Health agreed to pay $47,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it negligently failed to assure street drugs did not enter its Jail ...
$50,000 Settlement with Corizon in Failure to Treat Suit in Florida by Corizon Health agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it failed to provide a Florida prisoner ...
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Doctor at Florida Detention Center Spread COVID-19 to Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An unnamed Armor Correctional Health Services doctor was blamed for spreading COVID-19 ...
Brief • May 27, 2020
, and reentry facilities. The GEO Group, Inc. has built a reputation and goodwill on its commitment to respecting the human rights of Pursuant to this Court’s CM/ECF Administrative Procedures and the Office ...
from 35 to 40 a year to over 400 a year. Negative publicity led Corizon to terminate its contract in May 2016. It was replaced by Centurion of Florida. Wexford’s contract was terminated in 2017 ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
GEO Group, Largest Private Prison Contractor, Cranks Up Political Contributions During Trump Years by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. In August 2016, just after an Obama ...
and medical staff as agents of the Centurion LLC, 1 and allege the following: 1. This is an action for monetary damages (both survival and resulting from the wrongful death) and for the deprivation ...
Filing • December 6, 2019
Filed under: Centurion, Public Records
. As part of this role, it administers the contracts held by corporations running private prison facilities on behalf of FDOC. 5 20. On or about October 16, 2019, HRDC sent Notices of Centurion and MHM’s ...
received only one proposal from Centurion. RMC Hospital ITN - resulted in one bidder, Centurion. Mental Health ITN - resulted in two bidders, Centurion and Correct Care Solutions. Dental Services ITN ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Former Florida Senator Now Employed by Private Prison Company He Helped While in the State Senate by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss After Florida Senate President Joe Negron stepped down ...
Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Motions to Dismiss by Corizon and Wexford Denied in Lawsuit Over Florida Prisoner’s Double Leg Amputation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On December 14, 2018, a federal district court ...
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