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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 • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Family Awarded $229,000 Against CMS in Illinois Hepatitis C Jail Death by A jury has awarded the family of a prisoner who died while in the Kane County Illinois Jail $229,500. On May 16 ...
prison system and its contract medical care provider, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), to properly diagnose and treat HCV infected prisoners. The Inquirer reported that its investigation revealed ...
Services (CMS) and several administrators of the East Jersey State Prison under 42 U.S.C. §1983, alleging violations of his Eighth Amendment rights by deliberate indifference to a serious medical need ...
surpasses negligence and constitutes deliberate indifference (citation omitted)); Weeks v. Chaboudy, supra 984 F.2d at 187; Ancata v. Prison Health Services, Inc., 769 F.2d 700, 704 (11th Cir. 1985) (when ...
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
of St. Louis, Wexford Health Services of Pittsburgh, and Prison Health Services of Brentwood, Tennessee. The South Carolina Experience From 1986 to 2000, the SCDC contracted a portion of its ...
. But the director of Correctional Medical Services (CMS) denied the request on October 18, 1999. The request was later approved and scheduled for November 12, 1999. On October 21, 1999, Young was transferred ...
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
the Eighth Amendment. Baylor Women's Correctional Facility prisoner Shalnessa Goode sued, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Correctional Medical Services (CMS) nurses Jacqueline A. Nixon and Barbara LeWallen ...
. When he objected, he was not provided with an alternative wheelchair. Navedo brought suit against various MDOC officials including Maloney, Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS) and various CMS ...
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
attempt in April 1997, was awarded a $1 million default judgment against CMS in Franklin County (OH) Common Pleas Court on March 6, 2002. This verdict comes after CMS and Franklin County have paid $2 ...
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
CMS Overdoses Five Boston Jail Prisoners by Five prisoners at Boston's Suffolk County jail in Massachusetts were rushed to a nearby hospital after receiving the wrong medication. Jail ...
News in Brief by Roger Hummel Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor …
Ex-Ohio Sheriff's Deputy Wins $650,000 Verdict Against CMS for Prisoner Escape by Franklin County (Ohio) prisoner Alva Campbell was escorted to court in April 1997 while in his wheelchair ...
, Colorado. The lawsuit was brought against Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS) who had a contractual obligation to provide medical services for prisoners and detainees at the facility. The mother ...
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Virginia DOC Cuts Ties with CMS by Robert Durkee Virginia DOC Cuts Ties With CMS by Robert Durkee After numerous allegations of inadequate medical care, pending prisoner lawsuits ...
Medical Services, (CMS), a private contractor providing medical services to CCCF prisoners, and numerous other defendants, alleging deliberate indifference to his need for treatment of a life threatening ...
by the county for being understaffed. CMS is the nation's largest private "correctional health services" corporation [See: "Dying for Profits," PLN, Dec. 2000]. EMSA is a subsidiary of Nashville ...
) to provide health care to prisoners. CMS, in turn, subcontracted mental health care to Correctional Behavioral Solutions of New Jersey, Inc. (CBS) while maintaining control over medical evaluations, lab ...
CMS Fined Nearly $1 Million in Virginia by Dan Pens Correctional Medical Services (CMS) contracts with the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) to provide medical care to some of its ...
Medical Claims Against CMS to be Refiled in State Court by By Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in Illinois has dismissed the breach of medical care duty suit of a suicide ...
DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care at Missouri Prison by Michael Rigby DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care At Missouri Prison by Michael Rigby Allegations of improper medical treat-ment, lack ...
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