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Sixth Circuit Upholds $6.4 Million Jury Award Against Corizon Nurses For Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Alcohol Withdrawal
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
On August 16, 2024, the United
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Corizon Bankruptcy Threatens $6.4 Million Award to Family of Michigan Prisoner Whose Five-Day Jail Term Turned Into Death Sentence
by Jacob Barrett
by Jacob Barrett
On December 5, 2022
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contracted healthcare provider, CorrectCareSolutions (CCS) — now Wellpath — reportedly agreed to pay another $1.3 million to settle its share of the claims raised by the dead man’s mother
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, CorrectCareSolutions (CCS), now known as Wellpath, had previously settled its liability in the case for $100,000.
Before he was arrested and booked into the Macomb County Jail (MCJ) on July 10, 2017
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1
Ex. 1, CorrectionalHealthServices Agreement, 2/27/14 and Ex. 2, Third Amendment to the CorrectionalHealthServices Renewal Agreement for Kent, County, Michigan, 12/8/16 (“Contract” hereinafter
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Scabies Outbreak at Michigan Women’s Prison Under Corizon Health
by Edward Lyon
by Ed Lyon
Scabies is the name for an infestation of tiny mites that burrow under a person’s skin
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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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contract compliance.
As PLN reported, MDOC tossed Aramark Correctional Services as its food service vendor following a highly publicized failure to perform. Aramark, who had a three year, $145
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– an indication that providing adequate meals to prisoners can not be done on the cheap.
Further, it appears that additional costs related to privatizedprison food services will be passed
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Michigan: Corizon Audit Finds Deficiencies, State Extends and Expands Contract Anyway
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A performance audit of the Michigan Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) contract with Corizon
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a lawsuit against the facility and its private medical contractor, CorrectCareSolutions, in March 2015.
On June 11, 2014, David Stojcevski, 32, was ordered by a court to serve 30 days for failing to pay
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Emery amd Burgdorf v. Burtch, MI, Order adopting R&R, Corizon doctor sexual abuse PREA, 2016
2:15-cv-11113-SFC-DRG Doc # 27 Filed 06/22/16 Pg 1 of 8
Pg ID 332
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN
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. This report describes points of tension
between the privatecontractor employees and others in the system, especially corrections officers
(CO) and inmates. Unlike problems traceable to Aramark, structural
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security rounds and inspections.
Officers even performed tasks that were the responsibility of the privatecontractor. For instance,
to remedy unsanitary kitchen conditions, officers at some facilities
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between
THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
and
NAME & ADDRESS OF VENDOR
TELEPHONE
JPay, Inc.
10800 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 770
Miami, FL 33161
(305) 358-8689
Errol Feldman
efeldman@jpay.com
AGENCY CONTACT
517
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in segregation when she had MRSA and for the strip search. Corizon, the prison’s private medical contractor, also agreed to settle the claims against it.
“I now really understand how admirable those
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of the Office of Financial and Insnrance Regut�fJ
In the matter of:
JPayInc.
MT-0017843
Enforcement Case No. 12-11449
Respondent.
Issued and entered
on /1i.i_ day of t/011eV1t6e1A, 20-1!::
by Stephen R. Hilker
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