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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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Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
passed. Reed-Bly filed a grievance. Prison officials responded, stating that the delay was caused by DOC officials awaiting approval for the surgery from Correctional Medical Services (CMS). The grievance ...
Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), various CMS personnel and Quality Plan Administrators, Inc. (QPA), a CMS subcontractor responsible for providing dental care to state prisoners. Sullivan alleged ...
Article • May 15, 2011
$943,000 Settlement for Family of Man Who Died in Courtroom by The family of a man who died in 2001 from an asthma attack has settled a 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit for $943,000. Robert L. Waters, Jr. collapsed in the well of D.C. Superior Court Judge Tim Murphy’s courtroom on …
Article • May 15, 2011
Judge Denies Attorney’s Fees to Prevailing Defendant by U.S. Magistrate Judge John A. Gorman has denied a request for attorney’s fees and sanctions against a plaintiff who brought an unsuccessful civil rights action. Defendant Advanced Correctional Healthcare Inc. had argued that it was entitled to attorney’s fees because the plaintiff’s …
Gooch v. Buford et al, TN, Complaint, CCA inadequate medical care indifference, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0343 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0344 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0345 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0346 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0347 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0348 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0349
Article • April 15, 2011
Wackenhut Settles Wrongful Death Suit for $300,000 by Wackenhut Corrections Corporation paid $300,000 to settle a wrongful death suit filed by the minor children of prisoner Lisa Ann Lowdermilk. The complaint alleged that while at Broward County work release, Lowdermilk died due to the negligence of Wackenhut employees Kenneth Day, …
Article • April 15, 2011
upon arrest must be taken to the nearest hospital first. Additionally, the city’s contract medical provider, Prison Health Services (PHS), is required by the agreement to provide medical triage ...
Madrid v. CoreCivic, NM, Complaint, Medical Neglect Leading to Permanent Brain Damage, 2011 Case 1: 11-cv-00,267 Document 1-1 Filed 03/28/11 1 Page 6 of 15 fi:NOQF-l~!iiD FILEDIN MYOFFICETHIS ,,.l;,tt F!F:lJil~ 2011~ STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF BERNALILLO SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT '!.l?.4.i i:(: ~~fiftl' ~~~i'.lli"tffiQ,t • . . C.lttwJtlf/v …
Summary Judgment for Illinois Jail Nurse Reversed in Wrongful Death Suit by Brandon Sample The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment in favor of a nurse at Illinois’ Peoria County Jail (PCJ) who was accused of providing deliberately indifferent medical care to …
Prison Health Services Doctors Caught in Scandals by In a two-week period in July 2010, two doctors employed by Prison Health Services (PHS) were involved in scandals that led one to resign ...
was not provided care for the torn bicep by the medical provider, Prison Health Services, until four months later. His complaint alleged civil rights violations for the failure to protect and deliberate ...
Drill Bit Left in Jaw Nets D.C. Prisoner $15,000 Settlement by On March 22, 2005, a prisoner of the District of Columbia and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) settled for $15,000 his suit alleging medical negligence for a botched dental procedure. James Moore was admitted to a D.C. hospital on …
OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION STAR MRDAK, as next friend of JOSEPH SCHAEFER, Plaintiff, No. ________________ vs. KUL BIR SOOD, MD, CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS, LLC, DEAN RIEGER, MD, IMHOTEP K. CARTER, MD, and WEXFORD ...
California: State May Be Liable for Delaying Medical Care to Prisoner’s Infant Child by The California Court of Appeal has held that the State may be vicariously liable for the acts or omissions of its employees in failing to provide needed medical care for an infant living with its mother …
” and slurred his speech, signs of intoxication. The LPN was an employee of Prison Health Services (PHS), a private prison medical care contractor. PHS policy required that a physician be contacted ...
Ninth Circuit Holds Private Prison Companies Can Be Sued Under Bivens for Violating Federal Prisoner’s Rights by Derek Gilna On June 7, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...
Medical Services (CMS) mental health employee responded. Guards told them Randle had torn her suicide gown, made a noose, tied it around her neck and threatened to hang herself. Love ordered Randle placed ...
Revised Statute §537.080 (2009). 8. Defendant CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES (hereinafter “CMS”) is a private Missouri corporation with its principal place of business in St. Louis County, Missouri. 9 ...
Wexford Pays $300,000 in Illinois Prisoner’s Death by Wexford Health Services paid $300,000 last year to settle a lawsuit regarding the wrongful death of an Illinois prisoner who died ...
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
Failure of CMS Nurses and Doctor to Properly Treat Broken Leg Overcomes Summary Judgment by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to a doctor and two ...
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