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PLN Publisher Wins Settlement Records from Centurion  in Florida Prisoner’s Wrongful Death

Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025

Filed under: Centurion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Medical Records, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Public Records Act, HRDC Litigation

PLN Publisher Wins Settlement Records from Centurion  in Florida Prisoner’s Wrongful Death by Chuck Sharman On June 24, 2025, Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit Court for Putnam County ...

News in Brief

Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Male Reproductive, Malpractice, Escapes, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Juvenile Prisons, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Bribery/Extortion/Theft

prisoner phone use at the lockup, which is operated for the state DOC under contract by private prison giant CoreCivic. Lawson urged the state to assume control of the troubled prison. Texas: On June 6 ...

Shady Firm Awarded $78 Million Contract for Services  at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz”

Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025

Filed under: Private Prisons, Environmental Law, Immigration

Shady Firm Awarded $78 Million Contract for Services at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” by An obscure consulting firm in Jacksonville, Florida was awarded a $78 million contract in early July 2025 to provide a range of critical services at a hastily built immigrant detention center in the Everglades, dubbed by state …

Former Centurion Owner Accused of Helping Florida Governor Kill Legalized Weed

Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025

Filed under: Centurion, State Legislation, Marijuana Laws/Issues

Former Centurion Owner Accused of Helping Florida Governor Kill Legalized Weed by D uring a hearing on April 9, 2025, Florida lawmakers pieced together an elaborate money trail from ...

Florida Prisoner Released to Die Settles With Centurion Over Ignored Prostate Cancer

Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025

Filed under: Centurion, Cancer, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Deliberate Indifference

that private prison healthcare giant Centurion allegedly ignored, officials with the company agreed to an undisclosed settlement and claims were dismissed on March 27, 2025. That left claims by Elmer Williams ...

Armor Health Liquidates Assets—to Firm’s Founder

Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Settlements

; Additional sources: Jacksonville Tributary, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ...

Florida Court Strikes $10 Million of $16 Million Judgment Against Armor Correctional Health in Jail Death

Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Correctional Health Services. The jury that made the award had added $10 million in punitive damages for the estate of Misty Michelle Williamson, but Judge Clifton A. Drake of the First Judicial Circuit Court ...

In Re Armor Health Management LLC Liquidation, Aug. 02, 2024

Brief • August 2, 2024

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services

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Florida Prisons Playing “Whack-a-Mole” With Jailbroken Tablets

Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Electronic Tablets

Florida Prisons Playing “Whack-a-Mole” With Jailbroken Tablets by In an essay published in Slate on December 14, 2023, former Florida prisoner Ryan Moser said that officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) were “essentially playing whack-a-mole” in their efforts to combat an epidemic of “jailbreaking” prison-issued electronic tablets. The …

Commissary and Food Service Privatization Strands Florida Prisoners in ‘Food Desert’

Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024

Filed under: Private Prisons, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), PRIDE, Aramark, Food, State Law Claims, Trust Accounts, Commissary

and poorly-stocked—especially those run by private contractors, who are many layers of bureaucracy removed from any need to respond to complaints from their “customers.” The profiteers ...

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 ...

FDOC and Centurion Contract Agreement 2023

Publication • June 29, 2023

Filed under: Centurion

FDOC and Centurion Contract Agreement 2023 CONTRACT #C3076 CONTRACT BETWEEN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND CENTURION OF FLORIDA, LLC This Contract is between the Florida Department ...

Detainee Dies After Two Days in Florida Jail Where Armor Correctional Allegedly Denied Heart Transplant Rejection Meds

Article • June 22, 2023

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Medication, Transplants, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Detainee Dies After Two Days in Florida Jail Where Armor Correctional Allegedly Denied Heart Transplant Rejection Meds by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Dexter Barry, 54, waited 12 years to receive a new heart. He even moved to Jacksonville to receive the life-saving transplant in 2020. In just …

Armor Correctional Healthcare Denies Liability in Detainee’s Death From Missed Medication at Duval County Jail

Article • June 7, 2023

Filed under: Armor Correctional Health Services, Immunity/Liability, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Armor Correctional Healthcare Denies Liability in Detainee’s Death From Missed Medication at Duval County Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a statement to a local Jacksonville news station on June 6, 2023, the healthcare provider for at the Duval County Jail denied wrongdoing in the death of a …

CoreCivic Still Accruing Fines fort Short-staffing Florida Jail Where Developmentally Disabled Teen Was Raped

Article • March 9, 2023

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Disabled Prisoners, Staffing, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders

of County Commissioners of Florida’s Citrus County voted to deduct $116,250 off its December 2022 bill from private prison operator CoreCivic to run the county jail. The fine represents a daily fee ...

CoreCivic Still Accruing Fines for Short-Staffing Florida Jail Where Developmentally Disabled Teen Was Raped

Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023

Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Disabled Prisoners, Staffing, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders

Investor Lawsuit Against GEO Group Trimmed

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

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Class Actions

lawsuit alleging that private prison operator The GEO Group misled investors in its stock, causing them to suffer losses. For the last three decades, GEO Group has contracted with the Federal Bureau ...

FDCO and Centurion of Florida Contract-July 2022

Publication • July 1, 2022

Filed under: Centurion

by RMCH/Institution to inmates housed at private prisons managed by the DMS. The Contractor shall be entitled to reimbursement for services provided to inmates housed at private prisons, operated by DMS ...

FOC and Centurion of Florida Contract-July 2022-June 2023

Publication • July 1, 2022

Filed under: Centurion

FOC and Centurion of Florida Contract-July 2022-June 2023 CONTRACT #C2995 CONTRACT BETWEEN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND CENTURION OF FLORIDA, LLC This Contract is between the Florida ...

Hartel v. The GEO Group, FL, Order Granting Dft's Motion to Dismiss, Prison Conditions, 2022

Brief • June 21, 2022

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Prison Conditions

as November 7, 2018 through August 5, 2020, JPMorgan Chase Co. (“JPMorgan”) was the largest lender to private prison operators, including GEO. Wells Fargo & Company (“Wells Fargo”) and Bank of America ...

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