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Advanced Correctional Healthcare Ends Two Suits Over Deaths at Ohio Jail by Private jail medical providers usually win contracts with promises to save a county money. But after two federal lawsuits filed in federal court for the Northern District of Ohio in 2023 against Ohio’s Richland County and its privately …
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The parties notified the district court that they had reached a settlement on August 9, 2024, but as with many settlements involving privatecontractors, details remain secret. Buchanan is represented by Tulsa
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No Dismissal for San Diego Jail Medical Contractor from Suit Filed Over Detainee’s Withdrawal Death by On February 8, 2024, the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California declined to dismiss all the claims brought by the family of a San Diego Jail detainee who died in custody …
Psychiatrist Settles Virginia Jail Suicide Suit for $1.75 Million by The leading cause of death among people held in local jails is suicide. The family of Christopher Lapp, 62, learned that the hard way when he killed himself at Virginia’s Alexandria Adult Detention Center in 2021, while being held on …
$7 Million Settlement for Mentally Ill Detainee’s Death in California’s Santa Rita Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In a settlement agreement effective October 23, 2023, California’sAlameda County agreed to pay $7 million to the estate and progeny of a detainee who died while incarcerated at the county’s …
and current Sheriff Eric Watson, the privatecontractors that provided medical treatment at the jail— Quality Correctional Health Care, Inc. and Fast Access Correctional Healthcare, PLLC—were named
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Unable to Post Bail, Detainee Starves to Death in Arkansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A lawsuit filed in federal court for the Western District of Arkansas on January 13, 2023, makes a stunning claim: That a man was left to starve to death in jail because …
, Wellpath Holdings, PrimeCareMedical and ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices, as well as Corizon Health, which has now been split between new prison healthcare contractor YesCare and Tehum Care Services
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in as many years before cutting ties with former healthcare provider Corizon Health in November 2021, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Mar. 2022, p.52.] The jail hired a new healthcare contractor, MEDIKO
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$470,000 Settlement After Texas Jail Nurses Fabricate Vital Signs for Detainee Who Died by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 14, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dealt a death blow to claims filed by the estate of a Texas jail detainee against the county …
Eighth Circuit Affirms $800,000 Award After Arkansas Jail Detainee’s Fatal Appendix Rupture by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed an $800,000 jury award against a contract doctor at an Arkansas jail, in a suit brought on behalf …
is far from unique in this regard. As hundreds of stories in PLN and many other media outlets over the last 20 years attest, Corizon Health, Wexford, PrimeCare and other privateprison healthcare
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VitalCore Health Strategies to provide healthcare in state prisons. Wellpath corporate predecessor CorrectCareSolutions (CCS) held the contract from 2010 to 2015. Then Centurion took over until 2018, after
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., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108370 (E.D. Wash.).
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In another case against another Wellpath corporate predecessor, CorrectCareSolutions (CCS), for the death
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Coe eventually filed suit in the Court on November 28, 2017. Proceeding under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, he accused Pearson and her employer, DOC healthcare contractor WexfordHealthServices
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Wellpath Subsidiary Out of Australian Women’s Prison After Indigenous Prisoner’s Death by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 19, 2023, Corrections Minister Enver Erdogan announced that the Australian state of Victoria is booting the private healthcare contractor from the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC). Effective July 1, 2023, Wellpath …
Federal Courts Throw Out Smart Communications’ Mail-Scanning Patent by Robert Schaeffer by K. Robert Schaeffer On October 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted judgment on the pleadings to Rutherford County and VendEngine, Inc., the contractor that digitizes prisoner mail in its jail, in …
$3 Million From Forsyth County, No Stay in Civil Case Against Wellpath Nurse Indicted for Involuntary Manslaughter of N.C. Jail Detainee by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD After a federal court in North Carolina declined to stay a civil case against Wellpath and a nurse it employed accused …
After Sixth Circuit Stops Attempted End-Run Around Rules, Former Kentucky Jail Detainee Settles Suit Against Southern Health Partners by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On June 7, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed the case of a former jail detainee after she reached a …
ACH Settles After Federal Jury Awards $8.5 Million in Suit Over Missouri Detainee’s Death by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart In August 2022, private jail medical provider Advanced Correctional Healthcare (ACH) settled with the estate of a Missouri pretrial detainee who died of lung cancer after being refused medical attention …
