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Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arizona Challenge  to Private Prisons

Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025

Filed under: Private Prisons, Eighth Amendment, Thirteenth Amendment, rights, Fourteenth Amendment, rights

Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arizona Challenge  to Private Prisons by In 2020, the Arizona chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and two ...

Failures Brought to Light in Arizona Prison System’s COVID-19 Response

Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025

Filed under: Centurion, Systemic Medical Neglect, COVID-19

: Eat standard meals or nothing. At Huachuca Unit in Kingman, which is run for DCRR by private prison contractor The GEO Group, cooking allegedly ceased, and prisoners were fed uncooked food. Prisoners ...

NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits

Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024

Filed under: Naphcare, Primecare Medical, Corizon, Contractor Misconduct, Seizures, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Private Contractors, Staffing, Vermin, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

, Wellpath Holdings, PrimeCare Medical and Armor Correctional Health Services, as well as Corizon Health, which has now been split between new prison healthcare contractor YesCare and Tehum Care Services ...

Arizona Supreme Court Reverses Summary Judgment for Corizon Health in State Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Diabetes

Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024

Filed under: Corizon, Diabetes, Failure to Treat

: Windhurst v. Ariz. Dep’t of Corr., 536 P.3d 764 (Ariz. 2023). Centurion Health took over DRCC healthcare in July 2019. As PLN reported, Corizon Health is attempting to dodge settlements in dozens ...

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare

Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024

Filed under: MHM Inc., Corizon, Centurion, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Retaliation, Systemic Medical Neglect, Cancer, Private Contractors, Frivolous Litigation, Disclosure of Records, Declaratory Judgment, Public Records, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, PLN Litigation, Censorship, Articles About PLN, Public Records Act, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), HRDC Litigation

is far from unique in this regard. As hundreds of stories in PLN and many other media outlets over the last 20 years attest, Corizon Health, Wexford, PrimeCare and other private prison healthcare ...

$100,000 Settlement Reached With Corizon Health for Failure to Provide Arizona Prisoner Eye Care

Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023

Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Eyeglasses, Settlements

, as was Centurion Healthcare—which had replaced Corizon Health in June 2019 as DOC’s private medical provider—since there was no evidence Centurion Healthcare had delayed or denied Campbell’s ...

Arizona Prison Forcibly Induced Labor for Pregnant Prisoners

Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023

Filed under: Naphcare, Forcible Treatment

of drugs that cause uterine contractions. These contractions can be more painful than those of spontaneous labor and carry a higher risk of soft tissue tears. NaphCare, the Alabama-based private firm ...

$20,000 Paid by Centurion and MHM Health Professionals to Arizona Prisoner for Alleged Deliberate Indifference and Medical Negligence

Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023

Filed under: Centurion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Settlements, Deliberate Indifference

. Knowlton, Powers filed suit in federal court for the District of Arizona against DOC Director David Shinn and other officials, as well as Corizon Health, Centurion of Arizona, MHM Health Professionals ...

Arizona Prisoners Win Preliminary Injunctions Requiring Centurion To Treat Them

Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023

Filed under: Centurion, Failure to Treat

-fungal medication to stave off a relapse of Valley Fever. He returned to the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson, just as DOC changed over to Centurion from its previous healthcare provider, Corizon ...

‘Plainly Grossly Inadequate’: Federal Court Finds Arizona Prison Healthcare Deliberately Indifferent to Prisoners’ Risk of Serious Harm

Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022

Filed under: Naphcare, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Deliberate Indifference

to provide healthcare to state prisoners. But just four months later, a new law took effect. Arizona 2011 HB 2154 mandated privatization of all prison healthcare services. Private contractor Wexford Health ...

Arizona Naphcare Proposal, Oct. 2022

Publication • October 1, 2022

Filed under: Naphcare

| Page • Section 1.23.22 NaphCare will confirm in their BAFO that private prisons will have full access to EMR. NaphCare confirms and understands that private prisons will have full access to TechCare ...

CoreCivic Workers Unionize and Go On Strike at Arizona Prison

Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Guard Unions

CoreCivic Workers Unionize and Go On Strike at Arizona Prison by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart Some 20 newly unionized workers and their supporters manned a picket line at CoreCivic’s Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex (CAFCC) on August 12, 2022, after pay negotiations broke down over a company offer the …

Arizona Closing Prison, Moving Prisoners to CoreCivic Lockup

Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

sense? Apparently a $420 million, five-year contract with private prison giant CoreCivic to house up to 2,706 state prisoners dislocated by the closing at a facility the firm operates in Eloy. Before ...

Arizona DOC Director Admits State Economy Would “Collapse” Without Cheap Prisoner Labor

Article • August 30, 2022

Filed under: Private Prisons, Prison Labor, Rural Prisons

prisoners. Shinn’s comment came in answer to questions about a proposed contract for a private prison company to operate the Florence West state prison. “There are services that this department ...

The Journal of Civic Information-Behind Bars Secrecy in Arizona's Private Prisons, Sept 2022

Publication • 2022

Filed under: Private Prisons

The Journal of Civic Information-Behind Bars Secrecy in Arizona's Private Prisons, Sept 2022 Petroff, Prison Labor Records, JCI, Vol. 4, No. 2: 1-16 (September 2022) the journal of c1v1c ...

Arizona Federal Court Dismisses NAACP’s Challenge to Private Prisons as Violating Thirteenth Amendment by Commodifying Prisoners for Profit

Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021

Filed under: Private Prisons, Thirteenth Amendment, rights

Arizona Federal Court Dismisses NAACP’s Challenge to Private Prisons as Violating Thirteenth Amendment by Commodifying Prisoners for Profit by An Arizona federal court dismissed a civil ...

Arizona Federal Court Rescinds Approval of Jensen Settlement; Sets Class Action Medical and Control Unit Case Against Arizona DOC for Trial

Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021

Filed under: Corizon, Inadequate Health Care Facilities

Commission of Correctional Health Care standards, which were also used in DOC contracts, first with Corizon and later with Centurion. “Over the past six years, Defendants have consistently failed to meet ...

Jensen v. Pratt, AZ, Order Vacating Settlement, Inadequate Health Care, 2021

Brief • July 16, 2021

Filed under: Corizon, Systemic Medical Neglect, Inadequate Health Care Facilities

And that Defendants changed the monitoring reports without a valid explanation. 8 A January 26, 2017, telephonic hearing was held regarding Corizon’s inaccurate 9 audit/review process. And again the most recent ...

Arizona Dept of Corrections, Request for Proposals for a Privately-Owned Prison, 2021

Publication • 2021

Filed under: Private Prisons

. Arizona Department of 1.2.1.17 Department Contract Beds Bureau. The Bureau within Prison Operations established to closely monitor, evaluate and support private prisons under contract with the Department ...

Arizona DOC - Request for Proposals for Private Prison Facility 2021

Publication • 2021

Filed under: Private Prisons

Arizona DOC - Request for Proposals for Private Prison Facility 2021 - REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS State of Arliona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry 1645 W. Jefferson St. Phoenix, AZ ...

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