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the Management & TrainingCorporation. (A third MTC prison was recently shut down after prisoners ransacked it in a protest.) Except for a prison largely used to house prisoners from Washington, DC, these 11
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Southern Health Partners to Face Liability in Kentucky Pre-trial Detainee’s MRSA Death by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP) in a civil rights action alleging the company failed to train and supervise its nurses at Kentucky’s Hopkins County …
Tennessee Jail Seizure Death Claims Survive Dismissal; Physician Claims Dismissed for No Deliberate Indifference Allegations by Mark Wilson A Tennessee federal court dismissed deliberate indifference claims against a jail doctor for a prisoner's seizure death, absent allegations of his personal involvement or awareness. The court refused to dismiss claims brought …
Apples-to-Fish: Public and PrivatePrison Cost Comparisons
by Alex Friedmann
by Alex Friedmann*
It sounds like such a simple question: do privateprisons save money? The answer, however
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Private Medical Contractors in Kentucky Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity by The Kentucky Court of Appeals held that a trial court improperly granted summary judgment to the defendants in a civil action alleging a prisoner received negligent medical care at the Hardin County Detention Center (HCDC). HCDC contracts with Southern …
Advanced Correctional Healthcare’s Business Model Blamed for Prisoner Deaths, Injuries by The business model of Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc. (ACH) includes “severe cost control measures” and reliance on the company’s insurance provider to cover liability verdicts that result from inadequate medical care, according to lawsuits filed by the estates of …
Shutting Down the Profiteers - Why and How the Department of Homeland Security Should Stop Using PrivatePrisons, ACLU, 2016
Tribute: The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and WRP Staff
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Deaths at Louisville Jail Prompt Investigations, Corizon Changes
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Five of eight prisoner deaths since 2011 at the Metro Corrections jail in Louisville, Ky., are currently under
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that it want out of its contract for prisonerhealthservices due to escalating costs and mounting losses. In response, the Texas Legislature authorized the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to explore
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Corporation of America; GEO Group, Inc.; and Management and TrainingCorporation. 1 The BOP’s annual expenditures on contract prisons increased from
approximately $562 million in fiscal year (FY
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, a privateprison company, to operate the Kerrville State Hospital. GEO Care, a GEO Group subsidiary, was the only company to submit a bid after bid proposals for privatizing state hospitals were requested
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to be fingerprinted and to take his mugshot.
A member of the jail's medical staff—then employed by private healthcare provider CorrectCareSolutions, which has since been replaced by another privatecontractor
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a financial windfall from other people's misfortune. Several corporations have fattened their balance sheets as privateprison operators and numerous health care providers have received billions
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Illinois DOC Settles Lawsuit Over Mental Health Treatment by Derek Gilna It took eight years but civil rights attorneys finally prevailed in a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), entering into a settlement that requires prison officials to provide 11,000 mentally ill state prisoners with adequate mental …
and other staff against safety and health hazards, including assaults.”
CommunityEducationCenters (CEC) operates a halfway house in Long Beach, California, where state authorities found the company
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Hawaii Prisoner Awarded $7.2 Million after Losing His Fingers and Feet by Christopher Zoukis In October 2011, 30-year-old Aaron David Persin was accosted by police officers for having an open container of alcohol. When they determined that he had warrants for missing traffic court they arrested Persin, who was homeless. …
Jail’s Private Medical Employees Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity
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An Arizona federal district court concluded that employees of Corizon Health, a private company providing care
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Sanders et al v. Bottom et al, KY, Complaint, CorrectCare death medical negligence, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CENTRAL DIVISION at LEXINGTON [Filed Electronically] RANDY DEWAYNE SANDERS, JR., Administrator of the Estate of RANDY DEWAYNE SANDERS, SR., deceased, -andKORTNEY SANDERS, Guardian of B.R.S. and H.M.J.S., minor …
