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This site contains over 2,000 news articles, legal briefs and publications related to for-profit companies that provide correctional services. Most of the content under the "Articles" tab below is from our Prison Legal News site. PLN, a monthly print publication, has been reporting on criminal justice-related issues, including prison privatization, since 1990. If you are seeking pleadings or court rulings in lawsuits and other legal proceedings involving private prison companies, search under the "Legal Briefs" tab. For reports, audits and other publications related to the private prison industry, search using the "Publications" tab.

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Sixth Circuit Upholds $6.4 Million Jury Award Against Corizon Nurses For Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Alcohol Withdrawal

Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025

Filed under: Corizon, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

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 ...

Corizon Bankruptcy Threatens $6.4 Million Award to Family of Michigan Prisoner Whose Five-Day Jail Term Turned Into Death Sentence

Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023

Filed under: Corizon, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

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 ...

$2.45 Million Paid by Wellpath and Macomb County, Michigan, After Detainee’s Withdrawal Death in Jail

Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022

Filed under: Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Private Contractors, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

contracted healthcare provider, Correct Care Solutions (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 ...

$1.1 Million Settlement Paid by Michigan County to Estate of Detainee Who Committed Suicide at Jail

Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, Settlements, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

, Correct Care Solutions (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 ...

Jones v. Kent County, et al., MI, complaint, wrongful death, 2019

Brief • January 14, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Failure to Train/Supervise, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights

1 Ex. 1, Correctional Health Services Agreement, 2/27/14 and Ex. 2, Third Amendment to the Correctional Health Services Renewal Agreement for Kent, County, Michigan, 12/8/16 (“Contract” hereinafter ...

Martin v. Michigan DOC, MI, Order Approving Settlement, Wrongful Death - Dehydration, 2019

Brief • October 3, 2019

Filed under: Corizon, Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect (General), Food, Eighth Amendment, Americans with Disabilities Act, Wrongful Death, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Fourth Amendment, rights

McQUEEN, OFFICER KRISTIN POTTER, CORIZON HEALTH, INC., MHM CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, INC., MHM SERVICES, INC., JUAN GARBINSKI, MSW, MARGARET A. GETTY, MA, INEZ B. PORTER, LMSW, VINCENT PERNELL, MD, KATHERINE ...

Scabies Outbreak at Michigan Women’s Prison Under Corizon Health

Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019

Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Contagious Disease -- Misc.

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 ...

Trinity Services Group Faces Complaints Due to Inadequate Prison and Jail Food

Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018

Filed under: Private Prisons, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Food

;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 ...

Martin v. Michigan DOC, MI, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Dehydration, 2018

Brief • May 1, 2018

Filed under: Corizon, Pain, Brain Injury, Failure to Protect (General), Eighth Amendment, Water, Americans with Disabilities Act, Wrongful Death, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Guards/Staff, Fourth Amendment, rights

POTTER, SGT. ROE, CO RONDA SAWAYA, CO STRICKLAND, CO R’KIA TAYLOR, LT. THOMAS, CO TAMMY YOUNG, CORIZON HEALTH, INC., MHM CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, INC., MHM SERVICES, INC., JUAN GARBINSKI, MSW MARGARET ...

Michigan DOC Creates Contract Compliance Unit

Article • January 3, 2018

Filed under: Aramark, Contractor Misconduct, Private Contractors, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Contractor Liability, Sex Offender Treatment

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 ...

Michigan DOC Audit Reveals $3.4 Million in Overcharges by Aramark; Problems Persist Under New Contractor

Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017

Filed under: Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Corrections Audits, Food

– an indication that providing adequate meals to prisoners can not be done on the cheap. Further, it appears that additional costs related to privatized prison food services will be passed ...

Michigan: Corizon Audit Finds Deficiencies, State Extends and Expands Contract Anyway

Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017

Filed under: Corizon, Corrections Audits, Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, Dental Care, Failure to Treat, Cost of Prison Systems, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

Michigan: Corizon Audit Finds Deficiencies, State Extends and Expands Contract Anyway by A performance audit of the Michigan Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) contract with Corizon ...

Michigan Jail Subject of Wrongful Death Lawsuit and PLN Censorship Suit

Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, Medical Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Medication, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Jail Specific, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Drug Treatment/Rehab

a lawsuit against the facility and its private medical contractor, Correct Care Solutions, in March 2015. On June 11, 2014, David Stojcevski, 32, was ordered by a court to serve 30 days for failing to pay ...

Emery amd Burgdorf v. Burtch, MI, Order adopting R&R, Corizon doctor sexual abuse PREA, 2016

Brief • June 22, 2016

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corizon, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Medical Misconduct, Prison Rape Elimination Act

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 ...

Food Service Privatization in Michigan’s Prisons, IRLEE, 2016

Publication • 2016

Filed under: Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Food, Sanitation, Prisoners' Rights

. This report describes points of tension between the private contractor employees and others in the system, especially corrections officers (CO) and inmates. Unlike problems traceable to Aramark, structural ...

Food Service Privatization in Michigan’s Prisons - Observations of Corrections Officers, Zullo, 2016

Publication • May 26, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Statistics/Trends, Food

security rounds and inspections. Officers even performed tasks that were the responsibility of the private contractor. For instance, to remedy unsanitary kitchen conditions, officers at some facilities ...

JPay Vendor Contract 2009 - 2011 Prisoner Services, MI DOC, 2008

Publication • May 26, 2016

Filed under: JPay, Inc.

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 ...

JPay Vendor Contract 2009 - 2013 Extension, MI DOC, 2014

Publication • May 26, 2016

Filed under: JPay, Inc.

JPay Vendor Contract 2009 - 2013 Extension, MI DOC, 2014

Warden’s Decision to Quarantine Handicapped Person in Unaccommodated Cell Actionable; $200,000 Settlement

Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016

Filed under: Corizon, Disabled Prisoners, Infections, Strip Searches, Eighth Amendment, Americans with Disabilities Act, Qualified Immunity, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

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 ...

Order fining JPay in MI, DLRA, 2012

Publication • February 16, 2016

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Misconduct/Corruption

of the Office of Financial and Insnrance Regut�fJ In the matter of: JPay Inc. 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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