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Wexford Pays $300,000 in Illinois Prisoner’s Death
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WexfordHealthServices paid $300,000 last year to settle a lawsuit regarding the wrongful death of an Illinois prisoner who died
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Failure of CMS Nurses and Doctor to Properly Treat Broken Leg Overcomes Summary Judgment
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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to a doctor and two
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Louisiana Correctional Center (SLCC) in Basil, a privateprison operated by LCS Corrections Services, Inc. (LCS). One of those train cars, owned by Union Tank Car Company (UTC) and leased to Dow Chemical
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. This prison, though owned by the county, is operated by Management and TrainingCorporation (MTC), a privateprison firm based in Utah.
Willacy County’s “tent city” facility, consisting of several massive dome
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for Management & TrainingCorporation, a privateprison firm, and Corplan Corrections, a prison design and development company. Now his son, state Rep. Eddie Lucio III, (D) has signed on to be a Corplan consultant
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privateprison company, which has contracts with the U.S. Marshals to house federal detainees, and which obtained multi-million dollar contracts during Hylton's tenure as the Federal Detention Trustee
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Limitations Period in Suit Over Delay in Providing Surgery Begins When Prisoner is Recommended for Surgery by Brandon Sample The statute of limitations in a lawsuit claiming medical negligence by prison officials in delaying a prisoner’s surgery begins to accrue when the prisoner is first recommended for surgery by a …
Are Doctors Complicit in Prison Torture? The Maine Medical Community Looks at Solitary Confinement by Lance Tapley In the past few years an outcry has arisen over the involvement of military and CIA medical professionals and psychologists in torture, including psychologically destructive solitary confinement of “war on terror” detainees at …
$3.125 Million in Settlements in Oregon Prisoner’s Beating Death by On July 2, 2009, the estate and family of a mentally ill Oregon man who died in police custody settled claims against Multnomah County, a former deputy sheriff and jail nurses for $925,000. The case remained pending against the City …
For Lease: Never-Used 525-Bed Oregon Jail, $45 Million or Best Offer by Mark Wilson A seemingly good idea before the housing market collapsed, the 525-bed, $58 million Wapato Jail has sat empty in Portland, Oregon since construction was completed in 2004. County taxpayers are paying approximately $5 million annually on …
U.S. Supreme Court: No Bivens Remedy Available Against PHS Staff by Brandon Sample On May 3, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court held that employees of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) may not be sued for constitutional violations under Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). …
Third Circuit Reverses $642,398.57 Attorney Fee Award for RFRA Claim by Immigration Prisoner by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an immigration detainee’s $642,398.57 attorney fee award, finding that “the District Court’s degree of success inquiry under § 1988 was based on an impermissible reconstruction of the jury verdict.” …
Fraudsters Sentenced in Cornell Prison Construction Scheme
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A man who bilked almost $13 million from CornellCorrections Corp. has been convicted of federal fraud
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Thou Shalt Not: Sexual Misconduct by Prison and Jail Chaplains by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Traditionally, the role of a chaplain in the correctional setting is to serve as a spiritual advisor to prisoners and help them meet the requirements of their religious faiths. Equally traditionally, chaplains have …
searches conducted as part of initial arrest and booking.
GWHCF is currently operated by CommunityEducationCenters of West Caldwell, N.J. To qualify for a possible settlement award, GWHCF prisoners must
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already resulted in a jury verdict of $47.5 million – one of the largest prisoner wrongful death awards in the nation.
Gregorio de la Rosa, Jr., 33, was incarcerated at a privateprison in Willacy County
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a third potential bidder, Utah-based Management & TrainingCorporation (MTC).
Aside from the $100 million upfront payment being a nonstarter, some lawmakers and state prison officials questioned
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, that could be of concern.”
Likewise, a privateprison company that pays a firm run by current and former Congressional staffers, with the not-so-subtle goal of influencing a member of Congress, also should
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Detention Center, a 1,500-bed privateprison in Laredo owned and operated by the GEO Group, a Florida-based company formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections. The Rio Grande facility opened in October 2008
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, after entering default judgment against FirstCorrectionalMedical, Inc. (FCM). In other Delaware news, the state’s prison system did not renew its contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS
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