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Colorado Prisoner Forces Correctional Health Partners to Treat His Colon Disease by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After winning a temporary restraining order (TRO) directing the medical contractor for the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) to treat his colon disease, state prisoner Arthur Burnham’s location was unknown on September 10, …
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The parties notified the district court that they had reached a settlement on August 9, 2024, but as with many settlements involving privatecontractors, details remain secret. Buchanan is represented by Tulsa
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The parties then proceeded to reach their settlement, under which the county agreed to pay $1.6 million, while its private jail medical contractor, CorrectCareSolutions—now known
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Colorado Bailing Out PrivatePrison Company on Taxpayers’ Dime
by Jo Ellen Nott
by Jo Ellen Nott
On January 21, 2022, Colorado lawmakers advanced plans to funnel $5.41 million
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Colorado Explores Ending PrivatePrisons
by Jayson Hawkins
by Jayson Hawkins
As public opinion continues to turn against profiting on punishment, a law signed March 6, 2020, by Governor Jared
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Former CoreCivic Nurse in Colorado Claims Sex Discrimination, Retaliation After Filing Complaint About Poor Medical Care by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A former CoreCivic nurse who worked at the private, for-profit company’s Bent County Jail in Colorado filed a federal lawsuit March 18, 2020, claiming sex discrimination by her …
Correctional Facility, a privateprison owned and operated by
CoreCivic. Ms. Karapetian’s principal job duties consisted of providing medical care to
inmates who were incarcerated at the facility.
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& NEWMAN, LLP, hereby files his Amended Complaint and Jury Demand and respectfully
alleges as follows:
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INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff J.H. is the victim of a privateprison system that looks the other way
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CorrectCareSolutions, LLC.
CERTIFICATE OF REVIEW
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Pursuant to C.R.S. § 13-20-602(3)(a), counsel certifies as follows:
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Counsel has consulted with medical professionals with expertise in the areas
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with CommunityEducationCenters, Inc. docketed on the city council’s consent agenda. When she learned that company was a subsidiary of the GEO Group, she recognized it was the same firm operating
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Estate of Jesse Binam v. CorrectCareSolutions, et al., CO, complaint, wrongful death, suicide, 2019
Case 1:19-cv-02561 Document 1 Filed 09/09/19 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 20
IN THE UNITED STATES
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Lillis v. CorrectCareSolutions, Inc., CO, Settlement, Medical Negligence-Wrongful Death, 2019
FULL AND FINAL RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
This Full and Final Release and Settlement Agreement
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Corizon Settles Lawsuit Over Colorado Jail Prisoner’s Death for $3.7 Million; County Pays Another $200,000
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
A lawsuit over the 2015 death of Adams County
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Lillis v. CorrectCareSolutions, Inc., CO, Complaint, Medical Negligence - Wrongful Death, 2018
Case 1:16-cv-03038-KLM Document 118 Filed 10/22/18 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 42
IN THE UNITED STATES
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On Sale Now: Prison Labor
by Sytonia Reid
by Sytonia Reid, Green American Magazine
Every day, incarcerated and detained people in both US government and privateprisons perform labor during
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;in three separate incidents at the Cotton facility, where prisoners also complained about “crunchy dirt” in potatoes. [See: PLN, Feb. 2017, p.48].
After switching in 2015 from Aramark, another
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Colorado: Defendants Settle After Death of Prisoner Denied Medical Treatment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The estate of a man who died in a Colorado jail of a treatable foot malady has settled a lawsuit alleging Corrections Corporation of America (now CoreCivic) and other defendants caused his death by …
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evidence in CGC Holding included: (1) the plaintiff received a loan commitment
agreement promising funds and requiring payment of an upfront fee in exchange for
financing
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Estate of Dennis Choquette v. Corrections Corporation of America, CO, Settlement, Wrongful Death Diabetes Neglect, 2017 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT and RELEASE ~ This Settlement Agreement and Release (this "Agreement'1 is entered into this2Z day of ~u~s± 2017, between the Colorado Department of Corrections ("CDOC") and the Estate {;Deis Choquette ("Estate"). The …
, noting that the last-minute timing of the 2016 bailout payment to CCA in exchange for not closing Kit Carson amounted to “blackmail.”
Kentucky legislators also put forward a privateprison
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