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and Hawaiian officials to remove about 600 female prisoners from a privately-operated prison.
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private-prison company, runs the Otter Creek
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Rasho v. Walker, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 1:11-cv-01308-MMM # 5 Page 1 of 13 E-FILED Wednesday, 17 August, 2011 05:56:40 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PEORIA DIVISION ASHOOR RASHO, ) ) ) ) ) Case No. …
of Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), while ASG owns PrisonHealthServices, Inc. (PHS) and CorrectionalHealthServices, LLC (CHS). Those three subsidiaries provide medical, dental, mental health, pharmacy
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has a medical care contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and a pharmaceutical company for delivery of prescription medicines, who receives a “fixed per prisoner per month rate plus the cost
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and Wackenhut are major players in today’s big-business world of privatizedprisons.
A carpenter by training, Sandoval had come to this country to work in construction. Although a resident of Baja, California
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indifference to his serious medical needs while he was incarcerated at the Lee County Jail. The jury found that the jail’s for-profit medical provider, PrisonHealthServices (PHS), was solely liable.
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Ellis et al v. CCA, IN, Complaint, nurses sued based on poor conditions and inadequate treatment, 2011 STATE OF INDIANA COUNTY OF MARION ) ) SS: ) MARION COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CAUSE NO. HARRIETT ELLIS, TIA MARTIN, ) DELORES McNEIL, ANONI ELMORE, ) PATRICIA FORREST, and SHAVON JONES, ) ) …
privateprison contractor CornellCorrections, Inc. because Cornell’s grievance recordkeeping process was so inadequate that the question of administrative exhaustion could not be determined. In reversing
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Medical Services (CMS) were short-listed as finalists. Conmed, a publicly-traded company with operations in seven states, had won an $18 million contract for health care services at the jail in Chesapeake
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Tenny v. Ghosh, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 Case: 1:11-cv-01548 Document #: 15 Filed: 07/15/11 Page 1 of 43 PageID #:52 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ROBERT TENNEY (N10482), Plaintiff, vs. DR. PARTHA GHOSH, DR. CATALINO BARTISTA, S.A. GODINEZ, MARCUS HARDY, DAVID MANSFIELD, MARGARET THOMPSON, …
Orr v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2011 Case 3:11-cv-00608-JPG-SCW Document 2 Filed 07/14/11 Page 1 of 17 Page ID #3 KJG: car UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS SHAUNDRA ORR, Independent Administrator Of The Estate of JACE RAPP, deceased, Plaintiff, v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., …
Wilder v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 Case: 1:11-cv-04109 Document #: 1 Filed: 06/16/11 Page 1 of 51 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ROOSEVELT WILDER, JR., l) Plaintiff, v. ) iq__RECEIVED i Wexford Health Sources, Inc., in its official capacity …
Parisi v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 Case: 1:11-cv-00013 Document #: 12 Filed: 06/16/11 Page 1 of 13 PageID #:99 PBP 56426-57 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION PAUL MATHEW PARISI, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., ) DR. …
Wexford Enters Into Confidential Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Death
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by David M. Reutter
Pennsylvania-based WexfordHealthServices, which bills itself
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Willis v. Feinerman, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2011 FULL AND FINAL RELEASE WHEREAS the Plaintiff, WAYNE WILLIS, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, entitled Wayne Willis v. Adrian Feinerman, et al., Case Number 09-CV-00273, claiming to have sustained personal injuries and …
Keller v. Feinerman, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2011 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS HILTON LLOYD KELLER, B33552, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) V. No. 06-661-RHM ) ) ) DR. F. AHMED, DR. FEINERMAN, and DR. ELYEA, ) ) ) Defendants. FULL AND FINAL RELEASE WHEREAS …
Alfano v. CCA, TX, Complaint, inmate death diabetes, 2011 Case 3:11-cv-01006-P Document 1 Filed 05/16/11 Page 1 of 21 PageID 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION LEON ALFANO, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF PAMELA DARLENE WEATHERBY, NELDA ALFANO, DAREN C. …
