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-old Jeanna North of Fargo, N.D., from a privateprisonertransportcompany. The law is primarily aimed at preventing prisoner escapes, but it also provides for background checks of guards, including
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Texas Bankruptcy Court Rejects Proposed Settlement of Prisoner Claims Against Corizon Health
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On April 11, 2024, a Texas bankruptcy court rejected a proposed $54 million settlement
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Harris County Shipping Detainees from Overcrowded Jail to Mississippi CoreCivic Prison by On December 1, 2023, Harris County, Texas, began sending up to 360 detainees from the county’s jails to a prison in Mississippi, under a contract with its private operator, CoreCivic. The County Commissioners Court approved the $11.3 million …
Florida Prisons Playing “Whack-a-Mole” With Jailbroken Tablets by In an essay published in Slate on December 14, 2023, former Florida prisoner Ryan Moser said that officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) were “essentially playing whack-a-mole” in their efforts to combat an epidemic of “jailbreaking” prison-issued electronic tablets. The …
. 2020). However, as case law has established for governmental employees, supervisory liability for a privatecontractor can be shown by a failure to properly hire or train its staff. See: Sanchez v
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Migrants at New Mexico CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Forced to Clean Up Sewage with Bare Hands by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When raw sewage flooded two cell blocks at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) on November 14, 2023, guards working for its private operator, CoreCivic, ordered some …
’ family has filed suit in the Court accusing jail healthcare contractor PrimeCareMedical of negligently causing his death with inadequate treatment after his assault. The family is represented
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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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denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a guard for privateprison giant CoreCivic, alleging she was unconstitutionally strip-searched at Wheeler Correctional Facility (WCF).
“Though
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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 …
migrants on May 18, 2023, versus 223,510 on May 26, 2023 – a miniscule variation of less than 2.5%.
What’s less hard to believe is that ICE simply regurgitated data fed to it by its private
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, 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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Third Circuit Unhappy with Federal Detainee’s Denied Marriage Request at Pennsylvania GEO Group Lockup by On September 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit revived a claim by Brian Davis, a Jamaican national held for four years at Pennsylvania’s Moshannon Valley Correctional Center (MVCC). The prison …
Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends by After banning state prisoners from receiving physical mail the year before, the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) extended the ban on September 25, 2023, to include books sent to prisoners from family or friends. The rule change …
: Windhurst v. Ariz. Dep’t of Corr., 536 P.3d 764 (Ariz. 2023).
Centurion Health took over DRCC healthcare in July 2019. As PLN reported, Corizon Health is attempting to dodge settlements in dozens
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denied any systemic issues with the prison or its medical care provider, Centurion Health.
DOC tapped Centurion Health to replace Corizon Health, saying it hoped to improve a poor quality of care
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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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Four Dead in One Month in San Bernardino County Jails, $3,232,500 in Settlements Paid So Far by Douglas Ankney, Casey Bastian by Douglas Ankney and Casey J. Bastian A spate of jail deaths in California’s San Bernardino County dating back to 2017 has led to at least four legal settlements …
$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 …
New Jersey PrivatePrison Ban Voided
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The issue of illegal immigration is a contentious one. Though entering the country illegally is a violation of civil immigration law, migrant families
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