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This site contains over 2,000 news articles, legal briefs and publications related to for-profit companies that provide correctional services. Most of the content under the "Articles" tab below is from our Prison Legal News site. PLN, a monthly print publication, has been reporting on criminal justice-related issues, including prison privatization, since 1990. If you are seeking pleadings or court rulings in lawsuits and other legal proceedings involving private prison companies, search under the "Legal Briefs" tab. For reports, audits and other publications related to the private prison industry, search using the "Publications" tab.

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in Vermont state court against Prison Health Services (PHS, now operating as Corizon Health, Inc.). As part of the settlement PHS agreed to produce records related to its resolution of legal claims against ...
that WCI’s practices may be exposing prisoners to hepatitis C, Massey asked for records related to the facility’s contract with Prison Health Services. He also requested information concerning testing ...
, a Pennsylvania state jury slapped Prison Health Services (PHS) with a $400,000 verdict for inadequate medical care of a prisoner at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Albion. The award was reduced to $312,000 ...
in Balkwill’s possession months after he retired. PHS’s lawsuit, filed in circuit court, claimed that Balkwill awarded a $9 million jail medical contract to Armor Correctional Health Services in August 2006 ...
City of Philadelphia v. Corizon, PA, Settlement, PHS Affirmative Action Fraud for City Contracts, 2012 ...
Corizon Healthcare, the result of combining PHS Correc-tions and Correctional Medical Services; MHM Services Inc.; Armor Correctional Health Services Inc.; Correct Care Solu-tions; the Birmingham, Alabama ...
Filing • February 21, 2012
. by and between Prison Legal News (""PLN'") and Corizon Health, Inc .. formerly known as Prison Health Services. Inc. (.. PHS .. ). PLN and PHS may be referred to herein together as the ·•parties ...
Vermont Court Passes on Resolving Whether Prison Health Services is Subject to Vermont’s Public Records Act by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample A Vermont Superior Court passed on resolving ...
of Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), while ASG owns Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) and Correctional Health Services, LLC (CHS). Those three subsidiaries provide medical, dental, mental health, pharmacy ...
indifference to his serious medical needs while he was incarcerated at the Lee County Jail. The jury found that the jail’s for-profit medical provider, Prison Health Services (PHS), was solely liable. Before ...
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
of New York (Corporate Counsel) representing individual employees of Prison Health Services (PHS), because they had conflicting defenses. The court’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the family ...
Article • April 15, 2011
upon arrest must be taken to the nearest hospital first. Additionally, the city’s contract medical provider, Prison Health Services (PHS), is required by the agreement to provide medical triage ...
Prison Health Services Doctors Caught in Scandals by In a two-week period in July 2010, two doctors employed by Prison Health Services (PHS) were involved in scandals that led one to resign ...
was not provided care for the torn bicep by the medical provider, Prison Health Services, until four months later. His complaint alleged civil rights violations for the failure to protect and deliberate ...
” and slurred his speech, signs of intoxication. The LPN was an employee of Prison Health Services (PHS), a private prison medical care contractor. PHS policy required that a physician be contacted ...
U.S. Supreme Court: No Bivens Remedy Available Against PHS Staff by Brandon Sample On May 3, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court held that employees of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) may not be sued for constitutional violations under Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). …
Virginia Sheriff’s Office, PHS Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $1.6 Million by Prison Health Services (PHS), a private for-profit company that provides medical care to prisoners, has agreed ...
on to Correctional Health Services, and six months later the contract was assigned to Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Vermont dumped CMS on January 31, 2005 after a series of problems, including seven in-prison ...
Ninth Circuit: 42 U.S.C. § 233(a) Does Not Immunize Public Health Service Employees from Bivens Constitutional Tort Claims by John Dannenberg Ninth Circuit: 42 U.S.C. § 233(a) Does Not Immunize Public Health Service Employees from Bivens Constitutional Tort Claims by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals …
Florida Jail Prisoner Paralyzed by MRSA Sues Prison Health Services by When Brett A. Fields entered Florida’s Lee County Jail to be booked on charges of criminal mischief, violating ...
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