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Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arizona Challenge to PrivatePrisons
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In 2020, the Arizona chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and two
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: Eat standard meals or nothing. At Huachuca Unit in Kingman, which is run for DCRR by privateprison contractor The GEO Group, cooking allegedly ceased, and prisoners were fed uncooked food. Prisoners
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, Wellpath Holdings, PrimeCareMedical and ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices, as well as Corizon Health, which has now been split between new prison healthcare contractor YesCare and Tehum Care Services
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: 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
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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 privateprison healthcare
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, 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
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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
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. 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
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-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
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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. Privatecontractor Wexford Health
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Section 1.23.22 NaphCare will confirm in their BAFO that privateprisons will have
full access to EMR.
NaphCare confirms and understands that privateprisons will have full access to
TechCare
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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 …
sense? Apparently a $420 million, five-year contract with privateprison giant CoreCivic to house up to 2,706 state prisoners dislocated by the closing at a facility the firm operates in Eloy.
Before
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prisoners.
Shinn’s comment came in answer to questions about a proposed contract for a privateprison company to operate the Florence West state prison.
“There are services that this department
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Arizona Federal Court Dismisses NAACP’s Challenge to PrivatePrisons as Violating Thirteenth Amendment by Commodifying Prisoners for Profit
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An Arizona federal court dismissed a civil
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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
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And that Defendants changed the monitoring reports without a valid explanation.
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A January 26, 2017, telephonic hearing was held regarding Corizon’s inaccurate
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audit/review process. And again the most recent
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Arizona
Department
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1.2.1.17 Department Contract Beds Bureau. The Bureau within Prison
Operations established to closely monitor, evaluate and support privateprisons under contract with the Department
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Arizona DOC - Request for Proposals for PrivatePrison Facility 2021
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
State of Arliona
Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry
1645 W. Jefferson St.
Phoenix, AZ
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