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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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Braddy accused privateprison profiteer CoreCivic of negligence that resulted in his stabbing at Leavenworth Detention Center (LDC), a now-shuttered lockup formerly operated for the federal government
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denied any systemic issues with the prison or its medical care provider, Centurion Health.
DOC tapped Centurion Health to replace Corizon Health, saying it hoped to improve a poor quality of care
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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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Tenth Circuit Rejects Government’s Appeal Over Recorded Attorney Calls and Visits at PrivatePrison in Leavenworth
by Dale Chappell
by Dale Chappell
Over five years ago, federal prosecutors
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/a CorrectionsCorporation of America
(“CoreCivic”) and Securus Technologies, Inc. (“Securus”), (together referred to herein as
“Defendants”), as defined below.
WHEREAS, Plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit
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Kansas Slaps Corizon Health with Millions in Fines for Contract Violations
by Chad Marks
by Chad Marks
“They don’t care who dies, how they die or what they do to you.&rdquo
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that, in June 2018, JP Morgan Chase Bank (JPMC) underwrote a $159.5 million bond to financeprivateprison operator CoreCivic’s construction of a 2,432-bed facility in Kansas. JPMC was already the largest
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Marques Davis filed suit in federal district court in October 2017, alleging that officials at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility and the prison’s for-profit medical care provider, Corizon Health
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privateprison companies,
CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA) and GEO Group, are
actively pushing governments to consider the use of private financing to build new facilities
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) strongly criticized privateprison company CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America), which operates the Leavenworth Detention Center (LDC) in Kansas. The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS
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Huff et al. v. CoreCivic, Inc. and Securus, KS, Complaint, Attorney Client Calls Taped, 2017 Case 2:17-cv-02320-JAR-JPO Document 1 Filed 06/01/17 Page 1 of 11 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS Ashley Huff and Gregory Rapp, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, …
, seeking to enlarge his investigation into whether the Leavenworth Detention Center (LDC) and the privatecontractor that operates the facility, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA, which recently
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Judge Orders End to Recording of Attorney-Client Meetings at CCA’s Leavenworth Detention Center by Derek Gilna The Kansas Federal Public Defenders’ Office has challenged a scheme whereby officials at a detention center in Leavenworth, Kansas operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) secretly video-recorded confidential attorney-client meetings. As a result, …
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by Robert Warlick
The Kansas Court of Appeals held that employees of CorrectCareSolutions at the Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) committed continuing Eighth Amendment violations by withholding
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Rippee, deceased, and Charlotte Rippee, as an Heir
at Law ofJohn Bradley Rippee, deceased, v. PrisonHealthServices, Inc., now known as Corizon
Health, Inc., a Delaware Corporation and Patty Rice
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largest privateprison firm, had settled a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Kansas that raised claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on behalf of current and former CCA employees
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in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest privateprison firm. On July 27, 2009, Prison Legal News had filed a motion to intervene in the suit
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and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a privateprison operated by GRWCorp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit
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