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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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-conscious and pale. The nurse who found her was Elisa Pacheco, an employee of the California Forensic Medical Group, a private company that provides correctional medical services to rural counties like ...
County, the county prison board and warden Eugene Berdanier, as well as the prison’s private healthcare provider, PrimeCare Medical, nine medical assistants and nurses, three unidentified prison ...
the sheriff and the jail’s privately-contracted medical provider, Correctional Healthcare Companies (CHC) – now Correct Care Solutions – after he was denied medical treatment for at least 16 ...
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
2015 Annual Anti-Private Prison Awards Announced by On March 1, 2016, the Private Corrections Institute (PCI), a non-profit citizen watchdog organization, announced its 2015 awardees ...
Article • March 30, 2016
$565,500 Jury Verdict in Montana Jail Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Suit by Matthew Clarke On October 24, 2014, a Montana state jury found Missoula County liable in the wrongful death of a jail prisoner and assessed an award of $565,500 against the county. The county agreed not to appeal and to …
support to Probation's bureaus and managers. Probation's services are admínistered and financed through five separate operating budget units, which include Juvenile lnstitutions Services (JlS), Support ...
Article • March 7, 2016
non-psychotropic medications. He then went into the care of KCJ’s medical contractor, Conmed. It had a “bridge” policy that allowed continuation of psychotropic medications for 14 days ...
Texas State Jails: Private Drug Counselors Ordered to Downplay Mental Illness by Matthew Clarke Former employees of Houston-based Turning Point, Inc., a private, for-profit company which contracted with Texas to provide substance abuse treatment in its state jail system, are revealing how supervisors pressured them to falsify Addiction Severity Index …
commissary list for prisoners to purchase. Whipple could not afford to buy the Prilosec he needed from the commissary, and accused TDOC officials and Corizon, a private prison medical contractor, of deliberate ...
Publication • February 11, 2016
Tenth Street PO Box 1340 Colombus, GA 31901 Dear Ms. Sheftall: Today, Correctional Healthcare Companies (CHC) has formally merged with Correct Care Solutions, LLC (CCS). Since its inception, CCS has ...
Publication • February 11, 2016
hires, critical management positions such as the Correctional Health Services Administrator II, Health Program Manager II, and Supervising Registered Nurse II positions remain vacant. • CHCF In-Service ...
Publication • February 11, 2016
Filed under: Private Contractors
. A single-page demographic form is the only requirement for CAQH participating providers. Credentialing materials can be found in the Provider section of the Centurion website ...
Publication • February 10, 2016
support for the $9.2 million in service enhancements negotiated after the contractor’s proposal was accepted. AUDIT RESULTS - SUMMARY Under its contract with the Department, Prison Health Services, Inc ...
Plaintiff’s complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a), and dismissed as defendants ADC Director Charles Ryan and Wexford Health Services, Inc. ER 108-110. Wexford was contracted with ADC to provide prisoner health ...
Brief • January 19, 2016
DWN and CCR v. ICE, NY, MOL in support of Plf Mot for PSJ, private contractor staffing and pricing, 2016 Case 1:14-cv-00583-LGS Document 96 Filed 01/19/16 Page 1 of 27 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...
the state's 2,000 prisoners, it also hired an independent third-party to keep tabs on the private contractor. And yet, Correct Care Solutions (CCS) has still committed gross negligence, medical malpractice ...
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
Georgia: $453,000 Jury Verdict against Private Jail Medical Contractor by David Reutter Georgia: $453,000 Jury Verdict against Private Jail Medical Contractor by David Reutter A Georgia federal jury awarded $452,917.50 to a former detainee for injuries that resulted from inadequate medical care at the Hart County Jail. Monica Robinson was …
Brief • December 22, 2015
DWN and CCR v. ICE, NY, MOL in support of Def Cross-Mot for SJ, private contractor staffing and pricing, 2015 Case 1:14-cv-00583-LGS Document 87 Filed 12/22/15 Page 1 of 35 UNITED STATES DISTRICT ...
in a rubber room without any food and only three drinks of water. In May 2013, Murphy joined four other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Monterey County, Sheriff Scott Miller and California Forensic Medical ...
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
provisions are a good idea considering that NaphCare, a for-profit company, has the same business model as Corizon and thus the same financial incentives to skimp on staffing and medical care for prisoners ...
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