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Emery amd Burgdorf v. Burtch, MI, Amended Complaint, Corizon doctor sexual abuse PREA, 2016
2:15-cv-11113-SFC-DRG Doc # 24 Filed 02/12/16 Pg 1 of 8
Pg ID 303
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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A Failed Privatization Experiment - Aramark & MI DOC, Progress Michigan, 2015
A Failed Privatization Experiment:
Aramark and the Michigan Deparbnent of Corrections
Report Prepared by:
Progress
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Michigan: PrivatePrison More Costly than State-Run Prison, Attracts Out-of-State Contracts
by David Reutter
Michigan: PrivatePrison More Costly than State-Run Prison, Attracts Out-of-State
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Aramark’s Correctional Food Services: Meals, Maggots and Misconduct
by Christopher Zoukis
Aramark’s Correctional Food Services: Meals, Maggots and Misconduct
by Christopher Zoukis
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that Dr. Cullinan and HealthProfessionals, Ltd., a company co-founded by Cullinan and hired by Sangamon County to provide medical care at the jail, failed to adequately treat Burris’ condition beyond
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Carithers et al v. CCA, MI, Order dismissing case, 8th Am riot hit list failure to protect staff and inmates, 2014 Case 5:13-cv-00066-DCB-MTP Document 28 IN THE FOR THE UNITED STATES SOUTHERN HUGH CARITHERS, AND JOEY DEATH DISTRICT DISTRICT WESTERN Filed 12/08/14 Page 1 of 21 COURT OF MISSISSIPPI DIVISION …
agreed to “present and recommend ... approval” of the company’s application for a license. See: In the Matter of JPay, Inc., Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
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incentives in our criminal justice system has grown. Privateprison corporations such as Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group have come under increasing scrutiny and pressure for cutting corners
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MI DOC v. Aramark, MI, Demand Letter, Breech of Contract, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
RICK SNYDER
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
GOVERNOR
LANSING
DANIEL H. HEYNS
DIRECTOR
February 27,2014
John Hanner
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of Corrections (MDOC) facility to the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center in February 2008, he came under the medical supervision and care of Correctional Medical Services, the MDOC’s privatecontractor
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Audit Report Recommends Michigan PrivatizePrisoner Food Services
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An audit report of the prisoner food service operations of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) found
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of his complaint on that basis was improper. See: Davis v. PrisonHealthServices, 679 F.3d 433 (6th Cir. 2012).
Following remand, Davis voluntarily dismissed his suit so it could be re-filed after he
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has a medical care contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and a pharmaceutical company for delivery of prescription medicines, who receives a “fixed per prisoner per month rate plus the cost
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passed.
Reed-Bly filed a grievance. Prison officials responded, stating that the delay was caused by DOC officials awaiting approval for the surgery from Correctional Medical Services (CMS). The grievance
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Prisoner’s Administrative Remedies Do Not Require Naming of Official by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated its own affirmation of the dismissal of a prisoner’s civil rights complaint after the Supreme Court found that the circuit’s imposition of the prerequisite to properly exhaust administrative remedies before filing a complaint …
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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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. …
and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a privateprison operated by GRWCorp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit
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articles that followed that article, PLN reported on the horrid care provided to Michigan prisoners by the private medical vendor, Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Those articles detailed
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$3.6 Million Settlement in Michigan Prisoner’s Segregation Cell Death by The family of Timothy Souders has agreed to accept $3.25 to settle a wrongful death claim relating to Timothy’s death. Timothy, 21, was the subject of a May 2007 PLN cover article, and a February 11, 2007, report on 60 …
