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Pennsylvania Town Rejects Private Prison Firm

Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut

Pennsylvania Town Rejects Private Prison Firm by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regular readers of Prison Legal News are well aware of the abysmal reputations that private, for-profit prisons have ...

Pennsylvania DOC, Mental Health Contractor Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $27,500

Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019

Filed under: Private Contractors, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

Pennsylvania DOC, Mental Health Contractor Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $27,500 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) have agreed to pay $15,000 to the estate of a mentally ill prisoner who was killed after being attacked by another prisoner …

$7 Million Settlement for Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide at Private Prison

Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Settlements, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Suicides

Correctional Facility (GWHCF) in Thornton, Pennsylvania, operated at the time by private prison company Community Education Centers. When she was in her late twenties, Janene Wallace was diagnosed with mental ...

Aramark Gets Pennsylvania DOC Food Procurement Contract

Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018

Filed under: Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Aramark, Food

Aramark Gets Pennsylvania DOC Food Procurement Contract by In early 2017, Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections (PDOC) entered into an “innovative” agreement ...

BOP Agrees to Pay Attorney's Fees in Failed Attempt to Stop Construction of Private Prison in Pennsylvania

Article • December 27, 2017

Filed under: Private Prisons, Attorney Fee Awards

BOP Agrees to Pay Attorney's Fees in Failed Attempt to Stop Construction of Private Prison in Pennsylvania by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The federal Bureau of Prisons agreed via ...

Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Ethics Board Fines Former Prisons Commissioner

Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017

Filed under: Corizon, Government Misconduct

agreement between Giorla and the Ethics Board, once he left his position with the city he became a consultant for Corizon Health – a company he had contracted with to provide prisoner medical care while ...

Despite Lack of State License, ICE Family Detention Center Continues Operating

Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017

Filed under: PA Child Care, Prison Labor, Hunger Strikes, Systemic Medical Neglect, Immigration

Despite Lack of State License, ICE Family Detention Center Continues Operating by In 2015, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (PDHS) issued a statement saying it “believes that the current use of the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC) as a family residential center is inconsistent with its current license as …

Third Circuit Holds Prisons Not Required to Treat Impotence or Infertility

Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017

Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Medical, Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Male Reproductive, Surgery, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Qualified Immunity

Third Circuit Holds Prisons Not Required to Treat Impotence or Infertility by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prison officials do not have to treat medical conditions that could result in a prisoner’s impotence or infertility. When Shemtov Michtavi was incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in …

Whitlow v. Corizon, PA, Complaint and Jury Trial Demand, Prison Health Services - Failure to Treat, 2016

Brief • December 16, 2016

Filed under: Corizon, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Whitlow v. Corizon, PA, Complaint and Jury Trial Demand, Prison Health Services - Failure to Treat, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-01874-CB Document 1 Filed 12/16/16 Page 1 of 51 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT ...

Whitlow v. Corizon Inc, PA, Complaint and Jury Trial Demand, Failure to Treat Mental and Physical Health, 2016

Brief • December 16, 2016

Filed under: Corizon, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

and Allegheny Correctional Health Services, Inc., sent him to Mercy ER for treatment; f.) When Plaintiff returned to the Allegheny County Jail after his August 15, 2013 visit to Mercy ER, he refused to eat ...

Corizon Faces Suit for Failing to Administer Tube Feedings to Pennsylvania Prisoner

Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016

Filed under: Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Corizon, Medical Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Malpractice, Food, Jail Specific

Corizon Faces Suit for Failing to Administer Tube Feedings to Pennsylvania Prisoner by Christopher Wallace, 30, was arrested on February 12, 2015 on charges of robbing two banks. According ...

Former Pennsylvania Prison Doctor Sentenced for Fraud; Accomplices Convicted

Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016

Filed under: Primecare Medical, Medical Misconduct

for private contractor PrimeCare Medical, Inc. at the time of his termination. On January 12, 2015, Von Kiel pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, five counts of failure to file ...

US District Court Upholds Prisoner's Medical Suit against County and Healthcare Providers

Article • September 9, 2016

Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Systemic Medical Neglect, Injury -- Misc., Misdiagnosis, Malpractice

indifference by individual defendants, vicarious liability of Correctional Medical Care, Inc. ("CMC"), and professional malpractice. Peter D'Agostino, a prisoner in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility ...

$400,000 Award against PHS in Pennsylvania Prisoner's Medical Negligence Suit

Article • August 23, 2016

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Medical Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect

have done prior to his receiving the additional injuries. Jones 'as subsequently incarcerated at SCI-Gatersford and various Philadelphia-area jails. Prison Health Services was the contracted health care ...

Jail Called to Scrutinize Detox Procedure in Wake of Increased Deaths

Article • August 10, 2016

Filed under: Primecare Medical, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Jail Specific

Jail Called to Scrutinize Detox Procedure in Wake of Increased Deaths by David Reutter The second death in six months of a pre-trial detainee at Pennsylvania’s Buck County prison has raised questions about its detox procedures. The scrutiny of such procedures should be a focal point for jail administrators throughout …

Pennsylvania: Woman Dies in Jail While Serving Sentence for Truancy Fines and Court Costs

Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016

Filed under: Primecare Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Indigent Defense, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mothers in Prison, Children of Prisoners

to natural causes. DiNino’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and its private health care provider, PrimeCare Medical, in April 2015. The suit alleged that jail and medical staff ...

Federal Lawsuit Claims Negligence Caused Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Heroin Overdose Death

Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016

Filed under: Primecare Medical, Contractor Misconduct, Private Contractors, Drug Overdose, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

County, the county prison board and warden Eugene Berdanier, as well as the prison’s private healthcare provider, PrimeCare Medical, nine medical assistants and nurses, three unidentified prison ...

Prison Privatization Testimony (AFSCME - Fillman), PA Legislature, 2007

Publication • February 25, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons

Prison Privatization Testimony (AFSCME - Fillman), PA Legislature, 2007 TESTIMONY OF DAVID R. FILLMAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AFSCME COUNCIL 13 JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE HOUSE LABOR AND JUDICIARY COMMITTEES STATE AND COUNTY PRISON PRIVATIZATION IN PENNSYLVANIA OCTOBER 25, 2007 HARRISBURG, PA 2 Prison Privatization Testimony Thank you. My name is David …

Prison Privatization Testimony (PLN - Friedmann), PA Legislature, 2007

Publication • February 25, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons

brought copies of our publication 7 for the committee members. 8 story was on the Management & Training Corporation, 9 which is in the top-five private prison companies in 10 the country. 11 ...

Two Suicides at Privately-operated Pennsylvania Facility

Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016

Filed under: Community Education Centers, Suicides

are adequate and the training of their personnel is adequate,” he said. The George W. Hill Correctional Facility is operated by Community Education Centers (CEC), a private company that took over operation ...

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