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EMSA Not Liable for Ohio Prisoner's Restraint-Related Injury
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In this case involving an Ohio prisoner whose fingers required amputation
due to allegedly improperly applied restraints
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Sixth Circuit Reverses Judgment for EMSA Physician, Remands for Trial
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The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a grant of summary judgment to a physician employed by EMSA
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Prisons Nationwide Fail to Treat HCV Epidemic by John E Dannenberg Prisons Nationwide Fail To Treat HCV Epidemic by John E. Dannenberg The JeopardyTM answer is: "The national average treatment rate for HCV-infected prisoners." The winning question is: "What is approximately 1%?" With HCV [Hepatitis-C] infection rates in state prisons …
as a recession proof industry and rural welfare program for poor whites. But prisons can be a double edged sword, sometimes causing more problems than they solve. Privateprisons can be especially duplicitous
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PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues
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by John E. Dannenberg
PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group, Inc
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for college classes that prisoners did not, or were not eligible to, attend.
Dining for Dollars
In 1998, NCI executed a two year contract with Aramark , a private, for profit food service company based
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attempt in April 1997, was awarded a $1 million default judgment against CMS in Franklin County (OH) Common Pleas Court on March 6, 2002. This verdict comes after CMS and Franklin County have paid $2
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Ex-Ohio Sheriff's Deputy Wins $650,000 Verdict Against CMS for Prisoner Escape
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Franklin County (Ohio) prisoner Alva Campbell was escorted to court in April 1997 while in his wheelchair
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Corrections Corporation of America Announces Closing of Youngstown Prison by Ronald Young Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) announced it would close its Youngstown, Ohio prison on August 18, 2001. The shutdown means the loss of more than 500 jobs. So much for the recession-proof industry. The 2,016-bed Northeast Ohio Correctional …
PrivatePrison Woes in Ohio
by Gary Hunter
Less than two years after it opened, the second privately operated prison in the state of Ohio is already in trouble. CiviGenics, a privateprison
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by the county for being understaffed.
CMS is the nation's largest private "correctionalhealthservices" corporation [See: "Dying for Profits," PLN, Dec. 2000]. EMSA is a subsidiary of Nashville
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at the Nobel Correctional Institution (NCI).
In October, 1998, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) awarded a two-year contract to ARAMARK Correctional Services, a private company
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status in September, 1996. The schools being financed by property taxes, abatements such as CCA's were a particular burden. Existing state law gave schools a say in property tax abatements of greater
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would be the next great leap forward for Ohio penology. So they bid out a contract for private firms to provide food service at the Noble Correctional Institution. Of the two bids submitted, from ARAMARK
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Denial of Medication Precludes Summary Judgment by The U.S. district court for the southern district of Ohio held that a genuine issue of material fact precluded summary judgement against an arrestee who was denied needed AIDS medication during his eight-day jail incarceration. Devin Karl Murphy brought a 42 U.S.C. § …
Youngstown Case Reveals New Legal Issues for Prisoner Advocates, State Correctional Agencies and PrivatePrison Companies
by Al Gerhardstein
As the number of prisoners in private lock-ups
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CCA Settles Youngstown Suit for $2.48 Million by by Alex Friedmann On March 1, 1999 the Corrections Corp. of America agreed to pay $1.65 million plus $803,000 in attorney fees and expenses to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by Washington, D.C. prisoners at the company's Northeast Ohio Corr. Center in …
2305.25.
Further, CCA shall also permit the monitor to have complete and open access to
information from ACA audits and reviews, NCCHC audits and reviews, EMSA or
medical contractor audits and reviews
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Equitable Securities, a finance firm that encourages investment in privateprison companies, termed the Ohio situation a "public relations problem." CCA spokeswoman Peggy Lawrence called criticism directed
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investigating crimes committed at the prison.
In the wake of the chaos at NOCC, the Ohio legislature has passed a bill that subjects privateprisons to state regulation and makes privateprison owners liable
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