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Mentally Incompetent Maine Defendants Sent to South Carolina Wellpath Lockup Called “Essentially Prison”

Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025

Filed under: Private Contractors, Bankruptcy, Mental Health, Involuntary Treatment/Drugging

Mentally Incompetent Maine Defendants Sent to South Carolina Wellpath Lockup Called “Essentially Prison” by Pre-trial detainees found not criminally responsible in Maine are being quietly transferred from the state’s Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta to Columbia Regional Care Center, a South Carolina psychiatric lockup owned by Wellpath, Inc. Wellpath has …

Maine DOC, Medical Provider, Pay $250,000 Settlement Due to Excessive Force on 11-Year-Old

Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020

Filed under: Dental Care, Private Contractors, Excessive Force, Juveniles

Maine DOC, Medical Provider, Pay $250,000 Settlement Due to Excessive Force on 11-Year-Old by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The state of Maine and medical provider CorrectCare Solutions (now Wellpath) paid a 14-year-old $250,000 after two guards at a juvenile detention center “bashed” his face into a metal bed frame, …

Quinn v. U.S. Prisoner Transport, et al., ME, complaint, inhumane transport, 2018

Brief • April 4, 2018

Filed under: Transport Companies, Guard Misconduct, Transportation, Restraints

transport company in the United States, the Transport Defendants treat countless prisoners like they did Meghan. The Transport Defendants routinely create inhumane conditions for their prison transportees ...

First Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment for Retaliation Claim

Article • October 27, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Retaliation against Staff, Summary Judgment, Appeals, Americans with Disabilities Act, Employee Litigation, Disabled Employees

reversed summary judgment granted to Correctional Medical Services, Inc. ("CMS") for an alleged retaliation claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act. In spring 2007, Katherine Kelley, a licensed ...

Whether Private Actors Entitled to Qualified Immunity Bypassed Due to Factual Dispute

Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Qualified Immunity, Contractor Liability, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

only to the extent the appeal rested on legal rather than factual grounds. The defendants were employees of Corizon, a private contractor that provided medical services to prisoners at the Cumberland ...

Former Nurse at Maine State Prison Files Suit Over Racial Slurs

Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015

Filed under: Corizon, Racial Discrimination, Employee Litigation

at the prison from February through October 2010. The lawsuit names Corizon LLC in addition to the company’s director of nursing, Brian Castonguay, and administrator Tammy Hatch and fellow nurse Larry ...

Prison Reforms Under Maine’s New DOC Commissioner

Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013

Filed under: Private Contractors, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Probation, Mental Health, Juvenile Prisons

provider, Corizon, with Correct Care Solutions, another national company. “The change has been positive,” he said, adding that he receives far fewer complaint letters from prisoners. He’s gotten control ...

First Circuit Holds that Delay in Treating HIV May Constitute Deliberate Indifference

Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012

Filed under: CMS, Medical, HIV/AIDS

at the Maine State Prison (MSP), where medical care was provided by Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Leavitt, who had been taking HIV medications before he was incarcerated, claimed that the delay ...

Maine Governor Rakes in Private Prison Money, Shows Appreciation

Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Government Misconduct

by LePage, Ponte was employed as warden of CCA’s Nevada Southern Detention Center; he also previously worked for private prison firm Cornell Corrections as well as in state prison systems. Ponte said he would ...

Are Doctors Complicit in Prison Torture? The Maine Medical Community Looks at Solitary Confinement

Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010

Filed under: Private Prisons, CMS, Medical Misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

Are Doctors Complicit in Prison Torture? The Maine Medical Community Looks at Solitary Confinement by Lance Tapley In the past few years an outcry has arisen over the involvement of military and CIA medical professionals and psychologists in torture, including psychologically destructive solitary confinement of “war on terror” detainees at …

Sexual Abuse by Prison and Jail Staff Proves Persistent, Pandemic

Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cornell Corrections, GRW Corp., Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution

and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a private prison operated by GRW Corp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit ...

Little State, Big Problems: Maine’s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated

Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Retaliation for Media Contact, Retaliatory Transfers, Hunger Strikes, Criminal Prosecution, Crime, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides, Access to Media, State Legislation

the Legislature to imprison human beings for profit. The lobbyist for the private prison company was James Mitchell, a close Baldacci advisor, campaign contributor, and fundraiser. Department of Corrections ...

PHS Avoids Liability in Maine Prison Suicide

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Contractor Liability, Mental Health, Suicides

PHS Avoids Liability in Maine Prison Suicide by The decedent committed suicide in prison. The court refuses to draw an adverse inference against the medical defendants from missing records because almost all of them were from a period later than when they had any dealings with the decedent, and the …

Prisoner Loses Dental Suit Against PHS

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Medical, Dental Care

U.S.C § 1983." See: Sirois v. Prison Health Services, 233 F.Supp.2d 52 (D.Me. 2002). ...

Spoliation of Evidence May Imply Liability

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: CMS, Immunity/Liability, Qualified Immunity, Municipal Liability, Contractor Liability, Suicides

."' The former were employees of Correctional Medical Services (CMS). The complaint alleged that the defendants were deliberately indifferent to the prisoner's safety, in violation of the Eighth Amendment ...

Former PHS Employee Awarded $200,000 for Retaliation, Age Discrimination

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Medical Misconduct, Retaliation against Staff, Whistleblowing, Employee Litigation, Age Discrimination

for approximately 2 years as an employee of Prison Health Services, which contracted with the state to provide medical care at the prison. According to the plaintiff, she was a consistent critic of PHS procedures ...

$200,000 Awarded to Prison Nurse for Wrongful Termination

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Retaliation, Retaliation against Staff, Whistleblowing, Systemic Medical Neglect, Juvenile Prisons, Employee Litigation

Juvenile Correctional Facility (NMJCF), in Charleston, filed a law suit against Prison Health Services (PHS), a company that provides medical services for several prisons across the country including NMJCF ...

Plaintiff States Claim Against Private Medical Providers In § 1983 Action

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Private Prisons, CMS, Primecare Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Dental Care, Private Contractors, Hepatitis

Services (CMS) and Prime Care Medical (PCM) alleging that the denial of proper medical treatment by defendants violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Wall sought, among other things, $250,000 ...

Miscarriage is Serious Medical Condition

Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000

Filed under: Private Prisons, Allied Resources for Correctional Health, OB/GYN, State Law Claims, Venue, Qualified Immunity, Contractor Liability

Ferris complained to jail nurse Sprowl that she was having a miscarriage. Sprowl, who was employed by Allied Resources for Correctional Health (ARCH), failed to provide meaningful treatment, and within ...

Trial Required in ADA Suit over HIV Medication

Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Medical, HIV/AIDS, Medication, Americans with Disabilities Act

Trial Required in ADA Suit over HIV Medication by In the July, 1999, issue of PLN we reported McNally v. Prison Health Services, 28 F. Supp.2d 671 (D ME 1999) in which the court denied ...

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