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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 • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
is Wexford Health Services, Inc. Their home office address is 4500 PGA Blvd. Suite 302, Palm Beach, FL 33418. It is rumored that they provided services in Alabama ten years ago and were kicked out. Besides ...
days later as a result of his injuries. Loretta Cherry, Cherry's wife, filed suit against jail officials and Prison Health Services (PHS), a Delaware corporation which was contracted to provide medical ...
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
Medical Claims Standards Discussed by Ronald Brewer is an Iowa state prisoner. He suffers from coronary artery disease. Employees of Correctional Medical Services (CMS), a contractor ...
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Detainees Have Right to be Vermin Free by Two federal pretrial detainees housed under contract in the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in Pennsylvania sued jail officials for a wide variety of ailments affecting jail prisoners. Among the issues they filed suit on were: inadequate ventilation, extreme temperatures, excessive noise, use …
of $10,000 against the jail warden, $1,000 against the jail nurse and $60,000 against the jail's medical services contractor, CMS. The district court granted judgement notwithstanding the verdict ...
." It is from within this context that we examine the privatization question. It should be clear from the foregoing that privatizing prisons would in no way diminish the fundamental nature of these institutions ...
place immediately. The private company providing medical services to the prison, Health Management Associates (HMA), repeatedly put off the surgery until August, creating serious health problems ...
. Insufficient Quality Assurance; and, C. Questionable Procedures for Contract Bidding, Amendment & Assignments. CMS assumed the contract in the fall of 2000 after acquiring then-contractor Correctional Healthcare ...
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Filed under: Private Prisons, Medical
Mark Sanford and his Corrections Department Director, Jon Ozmint, have advocated privatizing prison health services in South Carolina. Prescription for Disaster documented the dangerous and expensive ...
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Allen Autopsy Report-cca
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NY Jail PHS Report
Murillo v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 3:17-cv-03181-MMM-JEH # 49 Page 1 of 40 E-FILED Tuesday, 21 November, 2017 02:39:59 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD Iv IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS JASMINE MURILLO, individually and as Plenary Guardian of the Estate …
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Filed under: Private Prisons, Medical
Affidavits From Former Cca Nurse Manning Case 2006
or prison has more than doubled, from roughly 900 in 1994 to nearly 1,900 in 2004. To achieve its mission and meet the demands of this rising population, the DOC has increased reliance on private contractors ...
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Filed under: Private Prisons, Medical
contracting arrangements—associated with privatized prison health services in South Carolina and the nation at large. From 1986 to 2000, South Carolina contracted with Corrections Medical Services [hereafter ...
Griego v. GEO Group, NM, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2018 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE ("Agreement") is entered into by Howard E. Griego ("Plaintiff' or "Releasor") and The GEO Group, Inc. ("GEO"). GEO explicitly includes Vincent Horton, Aaron Maestas, Albert Gutierrez, James Campos, and …
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FL DOC Medication Audit 2005-037 SEPTEMBER 2004 REPORT NO. 2005-037 AUDITOR GENERAL WILLIAM O. MONROE, CPA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS PHARMACEUTICAL CONTRACTS Operational Audit distributed, and order-limit maximums were not recognized. SUMMARY As part of our operational audit of the Department of Corrections for the period July 2002 through February 2004 …
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Filed under: Private Contractors
Southern Health Partners, Drug Formulary •v" I Southern Health Partners You r Partner In Affordab le Inmate Healthcare Southern Health Partners DRUG FORMULARY Effective: April, 2013 This is a confidential work product of Southern Health Partners, Inc. Southern Health Partners, Inc. DRUG FORMULARY **Generic substitution will be automatic, if available …
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Filed under: Private Contractors
Southern Health Partners, Infection Control Treatment and Prevention • • ~~ V I Southern Health Partners Your Partner In Affordable Inmat e Healthca re Infection Control Treatment & Prevention Guidelines Health & Safety Guidelines Corporate Office Address/Contact Information: Southern Health Partners, Inc. 2030 Hamilton Place Boulevard, Ste. 140 Chattanooga, TN …
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Southern Health Partners, Resource Guide for Correctional Officers Southern Health Partners You r Partner In Afforda b le Inmate Healt hcare INMATE MEDICAL SERVICES INFORMATION AND RESOURCE GUIDE FOR CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS © Copyright 2007, Southern Health Partners, Inc.; All rights reserved under International and Pan American Conventions. This publication may …
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