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agency within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), issued an audit of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ contract with privateprisoner company CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation
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/130051DC - Privatization of All CorrectionalHealthServices
The Contract is hereby amended as follows:
1. Contract Sanctions: The existing contract sanctions cap of $90,000 per month shall remain in
place
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FDOC and Centurion of Florida Contract Agreement-Amendment #1
AGREEMENT #A3881
AMENDMENT #1
AGREEMENT AMENDMENT BETWEEN
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
AND
CENTURION OF FLORIDA, LLC
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Continued Failure in Privatized Medical Care at Kentucky Jails by David Reutter by David Reutter Private medical contractors have become popular among corrections officials eager to reduce the cost of providing health care to prisoners. As PLN continues to chronicle this phenomenon, we continue to find substantial evidence that for-profit …
in the health care unit – run by privatecontractor Wexford Health Sources – there was no on-call doctor. Although the unit was supposed to be overseen by a permanent medical director, that post had
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announced its purchase of CommunityEducationCenters (CEC), which operates reentry and treatment facilities. GEO also owns BI, Inc., one of the largest providers of GPS monitoring.
In March 2016, Politico
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Colleton County, SC, SHP Contract Renewal, 2017 - 2018 outhem Health P r ners YCI r Pa ,, n Affelt& e lnrru1?P eal:llc.!re 'tanlfSry 26 2017 s s By Kaye B. Syfrett at 2:53 pm, Dec 06, 2017 eriff Andy IC !and Colleton County S eri s Offioe 11:2 South …
signed three mortgages to finance the purchase.
Two years after the company based in the Worshams’ home purchased the property, Shadow Mountain opened a wilderness program for adolescent boys
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County
Sheriff's Department, Armor
Correctional Hea~th Services, Inc.,
and ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices of New York, Inc.,
Defendants.
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SEYBERT, District Judge
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New York Counties, Corizon Reach $1.85 Million Settlement in Detainee’s Death
by
Two New York counties agreed to pay $1.85 million to settle a lawsuit over the July 2011 death of detainee
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to provide medical care to prisoners, Centurion, LLC.
To date, Dr. Walden, GEO Group and Corizon have repeatedly denied the allegations of sexual abuse. Notwithstanding those denials, seven of the 15 lawsuits
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Third Circuit Holds Prisons Not Required to Treat Impotence or Infertility by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prison officials do not have to treat medical conditions that could result in a prisoner’s impotence or infertility. When Shemtov Michtavi was incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in …
its ties with Corizon Health, Inc., and awarded a contract for county jail medical services to CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup (CFMG).
The contract, worth $135 million over a three-year period
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is provided by another privateprisoner health care firm, Southern Health Partners).
Strayer was then transferred to Dearborn County Detention Center in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The jail was severely
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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 …
a lawsuit against the facility and its private medical contractor, CorrectCareSolutions, in March 2015.
On June 11, 2014, David Stojcevski, 32, was ordered by a court to serve 30 days for failing to pay
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on November 5, 2016.
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He was, with deliberate indifference, classified such that he was sent to Bent
County Correctional Facility (BCCF), a privateprison operated by Defendant Corrections
Corporation
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Tennessee Prisoner Escapes Privatized Medical Jail Care to Obtain Surgery by To obtain needed surgery, a prisoner escaped from Tennessee’s Trousdale County Jail (TCJ). Prior to being booked into TCJ to serve a probation violation sentence, Don R. White, Jr. 31, was scheduled for hernia surgery. “When I walked in, …
Rice v. Montgomery County, KY, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death Seizure, 2016 SETTI.FTVIENT. RELEASE qF ALL CLAIMS AND INDEMNITYAGREEMENT This Settlement, Release of All Claims and Indemnity Agreement (hereinafter, "Agreement") is entered into by Diana Rice, Adminisffatrix of the Estate of Ronald Calvin Gaunce, deceased, and Della Ford, as natural mother …
