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"CMS"). Defendant Wexford and its insurers reserve the right to
disclose such infonnation as they deem necessary in the course of any subsequent lawsuit or
legal proceeding arising out of the facts
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the Management & TrainingCorporation. (A third MTC prison was recently shut down after prisoners ransacked it in a protest.) Except for a prison largely used to house prisoners from Washington, DC, these 11
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a privateprison contractor in the death of a pretrial detainee at a Texas jail.
Mario Garcia was confined at the Brooks County Detention Center, operated by LCS Corrections Services, Inc. (LCS). He
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Corizon Faces Suit for Failing to Administer Tube Feedings to Pennsylvania Prisoner
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Christopher Wallace, 30, was arrested on February 12, 2015 on charges of robbing two banks. According
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Corizon, CCA Settle Lawsuit Over Solitary Confinement of Elderly Woman
by Matthew Clarke
Corizon Health and for-profit prison firm Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) have settled
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\VALDEN,
,JOHN DOE/JANE DOE MEDICAL STAFF,
JOHN DOE/JANE DOE CORRECTIONS OFFICERS,
SERGEANT STEVEN CAMPOS,
THE GEO GROUP, INC, AND
CORIZON, INC.,
Defendants.
COMPLAINT FOR MEDICALMALPRACTICE, ASSAULT
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, or as otherwise may be required
by law. The parties may disclose the tenns of this A.f,rreement as required by the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (heteinafter "CMS"). The patties and their insurers
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Luellen v. Schwarz, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case: 1:14-cv-08148 Document #: 118 Filed: 11/17/16 Page 1 of 39 PageID #:820 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION STEVEN TERRANCE LUELLEN, JR., Plaintiff, v. MARY DIANE SCHWARZ, WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES INC., DR. SALEH …
Southern Health Partners to Face Liability in Kentucky Pre-trial Detainee’s MRSA Death by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP) in a civil rights action alleging the company failed to train and supervise its nurses at Kentucky’s Hopkins County …
]. The facility is operated by privateprison firm Management & Training Corp.; it was previously operated by GEO Group before the company discontinued its contracts in Mississippi in 2012. [See: PLN, Nov. 2013
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Marshall v. WexfordHealthServices, IL, Order, Medical Malpractice, 2016
Case 3:14-cv-00722-SCW Document 126 Filed 11/07/16 Page 1 of 6 Page ID #1019
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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Gill v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-05160 Document #: 13 Filed: 11/07/16 Page 1 of 17 PageID #:55 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION TYRONE GILL (N-10443), Plaintiff, v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., RANDY PFISTER, SALEH OBAISI, LATANYA WILLIAMS, and ALMA MARTIJA, ) …
Abdullah v. Wexford, IL, Merit Review, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00920-NJR-DGW Document 12 Filed 11/04/16 Page 1 of 14 Page ID #37 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS SALIK ABDULLAH, Plaintiff, vs. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, DR. LOUIS SCHICKER, VIPEN SHAH, MARK SCOTT, CHRISTINE BROWN, …
Tennessee Jail Seizure Death Claims Survive Dismissal; Physician Claims Dismissed for No Deliberate Indifference Allegations by Mark Wilson A Tennessee federal court dismissed deliberate indifference claims against a jail doctor for a prisoner's seizure death, absent allegations of his personal involvement or awareness. The court refused to dismiss claims brought …
certify that on October 26, 2016, I electronically filed a
copy of the foregoing Third Amended Complaint with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF
system.
By: /s/Paul Patten
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Armbruster v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00544-MAB Document 33 Filed 10/18/16 Page 1 of 17 Page ID #82 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EAST ST. LOUIS DIVISION GERRY ARMBRUSTER, Plaintiff, v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC.; BHARAT SHAH; RON VITALE; LORETTA …
, 2016, I electronically filed Plaintiff’s File Amended
Complaint with the Clerk of Court using the CM/ECF system, which will send notifications of
such filings to all counsel of record.
/s/ Mark M
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Apples-to-Fish: Public and PrivatePrison Cost Comparisons
by Alex Friedmann
by Alex Friedmann*
It sounds like such a simple question: do privateprisons save money? The answer, however
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CCA Prison Not Reporting Valley Fever Cases among Hawaii Prisoners by Coccidioidomycosis is the medical term for valley fever, an airborne fungal disease that led to more than 5,600 reported infections in Arizona in 2014; the disease is also prevalent in some areas of California. PLN has previously reported on …
Private Medical Contractors in Kentucky Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity by The Kentucky Court of Appeals held that a trial court improperly granted summary judgment to the defendants in a civil action alleging a prisoner received negligent medical care at the Hardin County Detention Center (HCDC). HCDC contracts with Southern …
