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The parties then proceeded to reach their settlement, under which the county agreed to pay $1.6 million, while its private jail medical contractor, CorrectCareSolutions—now known
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After Takeover from CoreCivic, Oklahoma Prison Even More Short-Staffed by Five days after the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) took over a state prison from private operator CoreCivic on October 1, 2023, a ceremony was held to rename the former Davis Correctional Facility. On the same day, October 6, 2023, …
Vermont Court Orders Centurion to Cough Up Records in HRDC Suit
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
On November 7, 2023, a Vermont court ruled in favor of the Human Rights Defense Center
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$7 Million Settlement for Mentally Ill Detainee’s Death in California’s Santa Rita Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In a settlement agreement effective October 23, 2023, California’sAlameda County agreed to pay $7 million to the estate and progeny of a detainee who died while incarcerated at the county’s …
-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 …
Lujan v. Eyzaguirre, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2024
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RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement
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. 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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