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CCA Pays $400,000 in Suicide Death of Tennessee Juvenile by CCA Pays $400,000 in Suicide Death of Tennessee Juvenile Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $400,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a juvenile who committed suicide at the Shelby Training Center in Tennessee. The …
CCA Pays $120,000 in Stabbing Death of Tennessee Prison Counselor by CCA Pays $120,000 in Stabbing Death of Tennessee Prison Counselor Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $120,000 to settle a lawsuit in the stabbing death of one of its employees, Delbert Steed, at Hardeman County Correctional Facility in Tennessee. …
CCA Pays $4,500 for Failure to Treat Tennessee Juvenile Detainee’s Eye Injury by CCA Pays $4,500 for Failure to Treat Tennessee Juvenile Detainee’s Eye Injury Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $4,500 to settle an Eighth Amendment claim brought by a juvenile held at its Silverdale Detention Facilities in Tennessee. …
CCA Pays $1,000 for Failure to Protect Stabbing of Tennessee Prisoner by CCA Pays $1,000 for Failure to Protect Stabbing of Tennessee Prisoner Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $1,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging the negligence of guards resulting in a prisoner being stabbed. Prisoner David Gardner alleged that …
CCA Paid $3,000 Settlement to Prisoner Assaulted with Issued Lock by CCA Paid $3,000 Settlement to Prisoner Assaulted with Issued Lock Correction Corporation of America (CCA) paid $3,000 to settle the lawsuit of Silverdale Correctional Facility prisoner Jeffrey L. Pines who alleged CCA was negligent in issuing a lock that …
CCA and Aramark Pay $2,000 Settlement in Prisoner’s Slip and Fall Suit
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CCA and Aramark Pay $2,000 Settlement in Prisoner’s Slip and Fall Suit
The Corrections Corporation of America
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Significant Breakdowns by Corizon Health, NYC DOI, 2015
The City of New York
Department of Investigation
MARK G. PETERS
COMMISSIONER
80 MAIDEN LANE
NEW YORK, NY 10038
212-825-5900
Release 16-2015
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Countess Clemons, there are at least five known cases of pregnant prisoners being denied adequate medical care at CCA facilities, resulting in the death of one prisoner and four of their babies.
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and through thousands of lawsuits against prisons and the privatecontractors that sometimes run them.
Prisonhealthservices were so bad in the 1960s and 1970s that in 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
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outside the GEO Group’s annual shareholder meeting at the Boca Resort and Club in Boca Raton, Florida. GEO, a privateprison firm that trades on the New York Stock Exchange, bills itself as the &ldquo
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at the prison from February through October 2010. The lawsuit names Corizon LLC in addition to the company’s director of nursing, Brian Castonguay, and administrator Tammy Hatch and fellow nurse Larry
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and placed in foster care, and days before she committed suicide she was informed by a county social worker that she would lose custody of them permanently.
The for-profit CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup
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with RCJ’s private medical contractor, HealthProfessionalsLtd. The doctor ordered Lisinopril and nitroglycerine, but not aspirin. He also ordered that Leonard undergo an alcohol withdrawal protocol
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$17,500 Settlement for Brutal Assault of Juvenile Prisoner by CCA Guard by $17,500 Settlement for Brutal Assault of Juvenile Prisoner by CCA Guard Corrections Corporation of America paid $17,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging an employee “brutally and savagely with extreme force” assaulted a juvenile at the Tall Trees Facility. …
$12,630.50 Settlement for CCA Prisoner Who Suffered Leg Amputation by $12,630.50 Settlement for CCA Prisoner Who Suffered Leg Amputation Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $12,630.50 to settle a lawsuit by former prisoner Samuel L. Key for the failure to provide medical treatment that resulted in amputation of his left …
$12,500 Settlement for CCA’s Failure to Treat Tennessee Prisoner by $12,500 Settlement for CCA’s Failure to Treat Tennessee Prisoner Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $12,500 to settle the lawsuit of prisoner Katie J. Farr for its failure to treat her serious medical condition while held at the Silverdale Correctional …
$12,500 Settlement for CCA Guard’s Failure to Protect Tennessee Prisoner Stabbed 13 Times by $12,500 Settlement for CCA Guard’s Failure to Protect Tennessee Prisoner Stabbed 13 Times Correction Corporation of America (CCA) paid $12,500 to settle a lawsuit brought by Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility prisoner Roberto J. Gatewood. Gatewood alleged …
$8,000 Payment for CCA Prisoner for Failure to Treat Asthma by $8,000 Payment for CCA Prisoner for Failure to Treat Asthma Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) paid $8,000 to settle the lawsuit of Silverdale Correctional Facility prisoner Robert Jackson, who alleged CCA failed proper medical treatment for him. Jackson had …
$7,900 Settlement for Juvenile Assaulted in CCA Prison by $7,900 Settlement for Juvenile Assaulted in CCA Prison Corrections Corporation of America paid $7,900 to settle a negligent hiring lawsuit that involved assault and battery of a juvenile at the Silverdale Detention Facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The complaint stemmed from a …
Malinowski v. Wexford, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2015 CONFIDENTIAL UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EASTERN DIVISION JOHN MALINOWSKI, No. 2012 CV 08654 Plaintiff, Hon. Sara. :L- Ellis, District Judge v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., et al., Hon. Sidney I. Schenkier, Magistrate Judge Defendants. SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT …
