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Maine DOC, Medical Provider, Pay $250,000 Settlement Due to Excessive Force on 11-Year-Old by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The state of Maine and medical provider CorrectCare Solutions (now Wellpath) paid a 14-year-old $250,000 after two guards at a juvenile detention center “bashed” his face into a metal bed frame, …
Orleans Parish Sheriff, Wellpath, Sued Over Louisiana Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Overdose by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The mothers of three children of a prisoner who died of an overdose of fentanyl while incarcerated at the Orleans Justice Center, the Parish’s jail, have filed a lawsuit against employees of the …
NaphCare, Oregon Jail’s Private Healthcare Provider, Required to Disclose Records in Detox Death Suit
by Mark Wilson
by Mark Wilson
An Oregon federal court in January 2020 compelled NaphCare
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Unsealed Documents Expose Treatment Failures at San Diego Jail by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso In response to a motion filed by the ACLU, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California unsealed documents in June 2019 related to the failures of San Diego …
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One infamous private, for-profit company, CommunityEducationCenters (“CEC”), runs 30% of all halfway houses nationwide.134 The recidivism
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Hampton County Detention Center, SC, SHP Medical Intake Forms, 2020 Screening Questionnaire for coronavirus Disease {COVID-19) Frequently asked questions 1. Have you or any-:,ne in your household t:-av:led t::i China or a Community that is known to be infected in the United States? Yes or No 2. Ha·,~ yo1.J been …
Marion County Sheriff, SC, Request for Foodservice Proposals, 2020 Marion County South Carolina Date of Issue: June 15, 2020 Pre-Proposal Meeting: June 30, 2020 10:00 AM Proposals Due: July 17, 2020 4:00 PM Request for Proposal For The Marion County Sheriff’s Office Detention Center For Inmate Food Services If you …
Sumer County Sheriff, SC, FOIA Response Re SHP Contracts and Amendments, 2020 SUMTER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ANTHONY DENNIS, SHERIFF July 23, 2020 Patrick J. McLaughlin, Esquire Wukela Law Firm 403 Second Loop Road Post Office Box 13057 Florence, SC 29504-3057 RE: FOIA Requests to Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center and Sumter …
Undisclosed Settlement in Kentucky Case a Textbook Case of Negligent PrivatizedPrison Medical Care
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
The provision of medical care is an expensive
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from 35 to 40 a year to over 400 a year. Negative publicity led Corizon to terminate its contract in May 2016. It was replaced by Centurion of Florida. Wexford’s contract was terminated in 2017
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care to prisoners, Corizon Health, Inc. and Wellpath, are owned by private equity firms. Together they provide medical services to hundreds of thousands of prisoners in 36 states. Wellpath had annual
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flexibility in its program components to help solidify its goal of building a quality program for all involved.
SHP has prided itself in being a true partner to SCDC, and we understand changes may be warranted
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Colleton County, SC, SHP Contract Renewal, 2019 - 2020 Southern Health Partners Your Parmer h) Aff(),d~ble Inmate Healthcare April 23, 2019 Sheriff Andy Strickland Colleton County Sheriffs Office 394 Mable T. WIiiis Boulevard Walterboro, SC 29488 Re: Health Services Agreement Dear Sheriff Strickland: SHP values the relationship we have with …
Securus Files Suit Alleging FDOC Improperly Entered into Prison Phone Contract by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In a lawsuit filed on January 29, 2019, Securus Technologies, Inc., one of the nation’s two largest prison telecom companies, accused the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) of ignoring provisions of the Florida …
New Mexico Medical Technician Wins $150,000 Jury Award for Abuse by Jailers by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Estrella Tenorio was a nurse’s aide/medical technician employed by for-profit contractor HealthCare Partners, Inc. (HCP). HCP specializes in providing medical services to prisoners. Tenorio’s first assignment was at a jail located near …
Pennsylvania DOC, Mental Health Contractor Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $27,500 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) have agreed to pay $15,000 to the estate of a mentally ill prisoner who was killed after being attacked by another prisoner …
to the private
sector, exemplified by the growth of the privateprison industry; and (2) the imposition
of fines and fees on mostly low-income defendants to fund the criminal legal system.
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that the county’s private correctional healthcare provider at the time, Corizon Health, had secured three no-bid renewals of its county contract while also donating $110,000 to Ahern’s campaign
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;The Court must place a clear and focused light on what is happening here: the State turned to a privatecontractor which has been unable to meet the prisoner’s health care needs.”
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