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This site contains over 2,000 news articles, legal briefs and publications related to for-profit companies that provide correctional services. Most of the content under the "Articles" tab below is from our Prison Legal News site. PLN, a monthly print publication, has been reporting on criminal justice-related issues, including prison privatization, since 1990. If you are seeking pleadings or court rulings in lawsuits and other legal proceedings involving private prison companies, search under the "Legal Briefs" tab. For reports, audits and other publications related to the private prison industry, search using the "Publications" tab.

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and requiring fees for others. Dean had brought an action to compel the production of documents from various Tennessee Department of Corrections personnel, Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS), and their employees ...
after an x-ray. After he was returned to his cell, his condition worsened and he died in the hospital from his injuries. The matter was settled by the parties paying as follows: Prison Health Services ...
PHS Fails Benchmarks In NYC Jail Medical Contract; Fined $250,000 by Prison Health Services (PHS), nearing the end of its three-year $359.6 million contract to provide medical, dental ...
medical provider, Prison Health Services, has been the subject of numerous previous reports in PLN. [See, e.g.: PLN, Nov. 2006, p.1]. On September 4, 2006, three days after reporting to jail to serve a 26 ...
$1.6 Million Settlements by PHS and Hillsborough County in Death of Baby Born in Florida Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Inadequate medical care by Prison Health Services (PHS) has ...
was also raped somewhere in the course of being beaten to death. Seidel's daughters, Devra Seidel and Sharon Clark, sued the County, Prison Health Services (the jail's medical provider), and Steininger ...
]. Armor's Chief Executive Officer, Doyle H. Moore, had founded Prison Health Services (PHS) in 1978. According to a 2005 New York Times article, "Prison Health proved adept at integrating itself with local ...
units of the antibiotic Rifampin to give to all 146 potentially exposed prisoners and 27 staff at the jail. Healthcare at the Gwinnett facility is contracted through Prison Health Services. Another ...
, Ohio arrestee who was severely beaten by police and negligently treated by Prison Health Services? (PHS) contract jail medical staff resulted in a settlement totaling $450,000. African-American Booker ...
Article • May 15, 2007
to the dental unit, run by Prison Health Services (PHS), on several occasions and filed grievances with the result of inadequate delayed treatment causing the loss of two teeth. In late 1996, Williamson ...
Article • May 15, 2007
for Interlocutory Review Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) was awarded a contract to provide health care to prisoners in the Georgia prison system. Later, the state changed its mind and gave the contract to another ...
Article • May 15, 2007
PHS Avoids Liability in Maine Prison Suicide by The decedent committed suicide in prison. The court refuses to draw an adverse inference against the medical defendants from missing records because almost all of them were from a period later than when they had any dealings with the decedent, and the …
for this work is cut from $500 an hour (the expert's rate for being deposed) to $200. See: Boos v. Prison Health Services, 212 F.R.D. 578 (D.Kan. 2002). ...
Article • May 15, 2007
U.S.C § 1983." See: Sirois v. Prison Health Services, 233 F.Supp.2d 52 (D.Me. 2002). ...
Article • May 15, 2007
of epilepsy and brought his medication with him to the jail. A doctor employed by defendant Prison Health Services ordered the prisoner to have his medication. The prisoner was denied the medication ...
involving a Title VII discrimination suit against Correctional Physician Services (CPS), the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the company's buyer, Prison Health Services (PHS), was subject ...
for approximately 2 years as an employee of Prison Health Services, which contracted with the state to provide medical care at the prison. According to the plaintiff, she was a consistent critic of PHS procedures ...
Private Medical Services Skirmish Over INS Contract by A Delaware Chancery Court denied a motion to dismiss filed by Prison Health Services, Inc. The motion sought to dismiss the complaint ...
FL Jail Pays $500,000 in Medical Neglect Suit by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit upheld a jury verdict against the Escambia county Road Prison in Florida for $500,000 in favor of a prisoner denied medical care. The plaintiff fractured his hip ball socket and was repeatedly denied …
Juvenile Correctional Facility (NMJCF), in Charleston, filed a law suit against Prison Health Services (PHS), a company that provides medical services for several prisons across the country including NMJCF ...
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