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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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private corporations under § 1983. Private prison employees and prison medical providers have frequent opportunities, through their positions, to violate inmates’ constitutional rights. 81. It is also less ...
Brief • November 10, 2017
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Thomason v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2017 Centurion 003220 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE ...
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) and Corizon, the department’s former private medical provider, denied hernia operations to prisoners to save money.  Groin hernias are very common ...
Derks v. Corizon Medical, et al., FL, settlement, failure to treat back injury, 2017 ...
Brief • October 19, 2017
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Brenton Rael, Plaintiff, vs. New Mexico Corrections Department; Corizon Health, Inc.; Centurion Correctional Healthcare of NM; DenTrust New Mexico, P.C.; Dr. Roger Ames, Defendants, Cause No.: l:17-cv-OO613 ...
Services (hereinafter "CMS"). Released Parties and their insurers reserve the right to disclose such information as they deem necessary in the course of any subsequent lawsuit or legal proceeding arising out ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
) awarded a contract to privatize medical care for prisoners. The winning bidder, Prison Health Services, merged in 2011 with Correctional Medical Services to form Corizon Health, which later won renewal ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
County Jail in New York in April 2017, alleging that the facility and its medical contractor, Correctional Medical Care, wrongfully withheld medication that could have prevented his death. The complaint ...
agency within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), issued an audit of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ contract with private prisoner company CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation ...
Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
;s for-profit medical contractor, Correct Care Solutions, LLC, is named as a defendant. See: Kincanon v. Randall County, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Tex.), Case No. 2:17-cv-00055-C.    Source ...
Brief • October 8, 2017
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Casaus v. Centurion, LLC, et al., NM, Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2017 Centurion 000061 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 10/8/2017 8:15:36 PM Toinette Garcia Marlene Villasana THIRTEENTH ...
Springs v. Schwartz, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case: 1:15-cv-05437 Document #: 93 Filed: 10/06/17 Page 1 of 15 PageID #:258 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION RYAN SPRINGS, Plaintiff, vs MARY DIANE SCHWARZ, WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES INC., and TARRY WILLIAMS Defendants. …
Donaldson v Lashbrook IL Order 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00942-MJR-SCW Document 11 Filed 10/03/17 Page 1 of 5 Page ID #61 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ANTHONY DONALDSON, Plaintiff, vs. JACQUELINE LASHBROOK, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 17-cv-942-MJR-SCW …
Brief • September 28, 2017
”) functions in compliance with Eighth Amendment standards. Defendants are Idaho Department of Correction (“IDOC”) officials who allege that they and their contract medical provider, Corizon, Inc., have brought ...
) ) ) ) ) Plai11tiff(s) V. Wexford Health Services, Inc.; Saleh Obaisi, M.D.; Major James Burzinski; Lieutenant Anthony Robinson; and Sergeant Rogelio Nelson De.fendant(s) ) ) ) Civil Action No. 1:17-CV-01861 ...
("Plaintiff' or "Releasor"), The GEO Group, Inc. (hereinafter "GEO"), Warden Jeff Wrigley and Corizon, LLC (hereinafter known as "Corizon"). Corizon & GEO explicitly includes all employees and independent ...
Article • September 13, 2017
Dismissal of Ill. Prisoner's Dental Care Lawsuit Affirmed By Seventh Circuit by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On February 15, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decided that a lower court's dismissal of Illinois state prisoner's lawsuit against a private medical contractor and a prison dentist …
Brief • September 8, 2017
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Wright v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2017 ..,JV C) Centurion 000045 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 9/8/201 t 3:27:26 ...
Publication • September 6, 2017
/130051DC - Privatization of All Correctional Health Services The Contract is hereby amended as follows: 1. Contract Sanctions: The existing contract sanctions cap of $90,000 per month shall remain in place ...
Article • August 31, 2017
Illinois Court Allows Medical Indifference Case to Proceed to Trial, Denies Summary Judgment to Prison Officials for Prisoner's Tooth Pain by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In a Memorandum and Order dated November 7, 2016, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Williams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District …
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