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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
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prisoner phone use at the lockup, which is operated for the state DOC under contract by privateprison giant CoreCivic. Lawson urged the state to assume control of the troubled prison.
Texas: On June 6
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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
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uring a hearing on April 9, 2025, Florida lawmakers pieced together an elaborate money trail from
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that privateprison 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
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CorrectionalHealthServices. 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
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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 …
and poorly-stocked—especially those run by privatecontractors, who are many layers of bureaucracy removed from any need to respond to complaints from their “customers.”
The profiteers
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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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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
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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 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 …
of County Commissioners of Florida’s Citrus County voted to deduct $116,250 off its December 2022 bill from privateprison operator CoreCivic to run the county jail. The fine represents a daily fee
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of County Commissioners of Florida’s Citrus County voted to deduct $116,250 off its December 2022 bill from privateprison operator CoreCivic to run the county jail. The fine represents a daily fee
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lawsuit alleging that privateprison 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
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by RMCH/Institution to inmates housed
at privateprisons managed by the DMS. The Contractor shall be entitled
to reimbursement for services provided to inmates housed at privateprisons, operated by DMS
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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
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as November 7, 2018 through August 5, 2020, JPMorgan Chase Co. (“JPMorgan”) was
the largest lender to privateprison operators, including GEO. Wells Fargo & Company (“Wells
Fargo”) and Bank of America
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