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Mitchell v. Boyer, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case: 1:15-cv-05914 Document #: 39 Filed: 01/30/17 Page 1 of 9 PageID #:98 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ISIAH MITCHELL (#R-15082) Plaintiff, v. SEARGENT KEVIN BOYER, C/O ALPHONSO JOHNSON, DR. KUL B. SOOD, DR. STEPHEN J. RITZ …
Publication • January 27, 2017
cannot answer the basic question of whether private prisons are operating at less cost than public prisons, as required by law. Consequently, the Department is limited in its ability to negotiate new ...
Article • January 12, 2017
, Inc., one of the largest electronic monitoring companies now owned by the private prison behemoth GEO Group, boasts in marketing materials that in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, offender-funded ...
are incarcerated in the Tennessee Department of Corrections (“TDOC”) and housed at Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility (“Trousdale Turner”) in Hartsville, TN, a private prison owned and operated 1 Case 3:17-cv ...
Brief • January 12, 2017
Filed under: MHM Inc., Corizon, Staffing, Suicides
treatment hub on the weekends and holidays. 2. Any employee of ADOC, MHM, or Corizon (or any other contractor retained to provide medical or mental health care in ADOC facilities) may present a person ...
Michigan: Corizon Audit Finds Deficiencies, State Extends and Expands Contract Anyway by A performance audit of the Michigan Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) contract with Corizon ...
Two Fulton County Jail Employees Subject to Liability in Detainee’s Suicide by A Georgia Court of Appeals held in March 2016 that two employees of the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office could be held liable in the suicide of a pre-trial detainee. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the …
by a federal district court in a lawsuit brought by Richard L. Anderson against Sentinel Offender Services, LLC, a company that provides for-profit probation services. Anderson filed suit “seeking relief ...
Shackled South African Prisoner Beaten by GEO Guards Wins Lawsuit by Derek Gilna In May 2016, private prison firm The GEO Group, which operates the maximum-security Louis Kutama Sinthumule ...
Recurring Injury Subsequent to Lawsuit Settlement No Bar to New Claim by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held a prisoner’s previous lawsuit settlements did not preclude a complaint for the same type of injury occurring at a later time. It also held the district court had improperly concluded a …
a lawsuit against the facility and its private medical contractor, Correct Care Solutions, in March 2015. On June 11, 2014, David Stojcevski, 32, was ordered by a court to serve 30 days for failing to pay ...
ICE Deportations Peaked in FY 2012, Declined from 2013 to 2015 by Derek Gilna Despite the fact that the Obama administration has deported more people than any other president in U.S. history, in 2015 the number of deportations conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reached a low not seen …
. Attorney Kirsch added, “There is an irony to the fact that a corporation in the business of running private prisons chooses to re-brand itself with the trademark of one of its most active critics ...
PLN Goes Undercover to Bust CCA Employees’ Misuse of Prisoner Labor by When PLN managing editor Alex Friedmann received a letter from a prisoner at the Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility in Nashville, Tennessee, a jail operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA, which recently changed its name to CoreCivic), he …
; THE GEO GROUP, INC.; CORIZON HEALTH, INC.; CORIZON, LLC; DR. MARKE. WALDEN; DR. LISA STABER; DR. M. TRUJILLO; MICHELLE PAQUIN; and JOHN/JANE DOE. Defendants. Case assigned to Ortiz, Raymond Z. Jury Trial ...
Publication • January 9, 2017
Amended and Restated Facility Operation and Management Agreement (hereinafter "Addendum") is entered into by anµ between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereinafter "County") arid COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERS, INC ...
on November 5, 2016. 3. He was, with deliberate indifference, classified such that he was sent to Bent County Correctional Facility (BCCF), a private prison operated by Defendant Corrections Corporation ...
that there was an open wound 1.5 cm in diameter with a draining central opening. 123. On May 13, 2015, Dr. Bautista conducted a collegial review with a doctor from Wexford, Dr. Ritz, to discuss the approval for Jones ...
from end stage renal failure; has not received Social Security Disability Insurance benefits for 24 months or longer, etc.). Nonetheless, if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (this term ...
. The parties may disclose the terms of this Agreement as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (hereinafter "CMS"). Defendant and its insurers reserve the right to disclose such information ...
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