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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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Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends

Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024

Filed under: JPay, Inc., Publications/Books, Banned Book Lists, Prison Mail, Securus

Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends by After banning state prisoners from receiving physical mail the year before, the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) extended the ban on September 25, 2023, to include books sent to prisoners from family or friends. The rule change …

ACH Settles After Federal Jury Awards $8.5 Million in Suit Over Missouri Detainee’s Death

Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022

Filed under: Private Contractors, Wrongful Death

ACH Settles After Federal Jury Awards $8.5 Million in Suit Over Missouri Detainee’s Death by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart In August 2022, private jail medical provider Advanced Correctional Healthcare (ACH) settled with the estate of a Missouri pretrial detainee who died of lung cancer after being refused medical attention …

Centurion Health Supplants Corizon in Missouri After Court Ruling

Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022

Filed under: Corizon, Centurion

Centurion Health Supplants Corizon in Missouri After Court Ruling by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders After a trial on November 3, 2021, a Missouri court ruled in favor of the state Department ...

Eighth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Private Companies Providing Missouri Prisoner’s Health Care

Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022

Filed under: Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Qualified Immunity

in private practice. If private prisoner medical care providers are not entitled to raise a QI defense, the Court was without jurisdiction to hear their interlocutory appeal or that of their employees. Thus ...

Ltr Sent to Corizon Re Denial of Bid Appeal 7-30-21

Publication • July 30, 2021

Filed under: Corizon, Private Contractors

June 14, 2021 protest letter, submitted to me on behalf of Corizon, LLC ("Corizon") challenging the above-referenced award to Centurion of Missouri, LLC ("Centurion"). I have reviewed Corizon's protest ...

Corizon v. Office of Admin, MO, Judgment, Private Prison Contracts, 2021

Brief • 2021

Filed under: Corizon

Corizon v. Office of Admin, MO, Judgment, Private Prison Contracts, 2021 ...

Missouri Office of Administration, Evaluation and Award for Prisoner Health Care Services to Centurion of Missouri, 2021

Publication • May 27, 2021

Filed under: Centurion, Medical, Private Contractors

DIVISION OF PURCHASIN G JK REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFPS30034 902100318 Julie Kleffner, Buyer Name of Vendor Proposed Methodolog y, Approach, and Work Plan Centurion of Missouri, LLC 1 {Vienna, VA) Corizon ...

Letter Re Evaluation and Award -Response to Request for Proposal for Comp Health Care Services for DOC -05-21-21

Brief • May 21, 2021

Filed under: Wexford Health Services, Corizon, Centurion

for Proposal RFPS30034902100318 for Comprehensive Health Care Services for the Department of Corrections. Proposals were submitted by: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Centurion of Missouri, LLC (Vienna, Virginia) Corizon, LLC ...

CoreCivic and Securus Technologies Agree to Pay $3.7 Million to Settle Suit for Illegally Recording Attorney-Client Conversations

Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Settlements, Telephones, Contractor Liability, Breach of Contract

CoreCivic and Securus Technologies Agree to Pay $3.7 Million to Settle Suit for Illegally Recording Attorney-Client Conversations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 31, 2020, a motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri revealing that CoreCivic and Securus Technologies (Defendants) had …

Williams v. Corizon Health, et al., MO, first amended complaint, prisoner injuries and pain, 2019

Brief • July 31, 2019

Filed under: Corizon, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Medication, Pain, Medical Records, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Mental Health, Fourteenth Amendment, rights

of Plaintiff’s medical need and have and continue to fail to properly provide the necessary and correct medical care and are therefore deliberately indifferent to Plaintiff’s serious medical need. 59. Defendants ...

Postawko v. Missouri DOC, MO, Order Certifying Class Certfification, 2017

Brief • July 26, 2017

Filed under: Corizon, Hepatitis, Failure to Treat

treating physicians and nurses; prison officials who reviewed their grievances and treatment requests; the MDOC; and Corizon, LLC, the healthcare provider for all MDOC facilities. [Id.]. A. Hepatitis C HCV ...

Postawko v. Missouri DOC, MO, Complaint, 2016

Brief • December 14, 2016

Filed under: Corizon, Hepatitis, Failure to Treat

of themselves and a class of similarly situated individuals, Plaintiffs, v. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, CORIZON, LLC, GEORGE LOMBARDI, in his official capacity as Director of the Missouri Department ...

Judge Orders End to Recording of Attorney-Client Meetings at CCA’s Leavenworth Detention Center

Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Jail Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Attorney Client, Telephone Monitoring

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, …

Corizon Sued Over Death of Prisoner in St. Louis Jail

Article • September 9, 2016

Filed under: Corizon, Jail Misconduct, HIV/AIDS, Systemic Medical Neglect, Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Diabetes, Misdiagnosis, Failure to Treat, Malpractice, Jail Specific, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

Lucas's mental state change was never called. Medical services at the jail are contracted to Corizon, the nation's largest private prisoner health care provider. Headquartered in St. Louis, Corizon--which ...

Settlements in St. Louis Jail Detainee’s Heroin Withdrawal Death

Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016

Filed under: CMS, Corizon, Jail Misconduct, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Jail Specific, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)

Settlements in St. Louis Jail Detainee’s Heroin Withdrawal Death by David Reutter The City of St. Louis, Missouri and Correctional Medical Services (CMS, now Corizon Health) both agreed ...

Doctor of Death: Former Jail Physician Leaves Trail of Prisoner Deaths, Injuries

Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015

Filed under: Health Professionals, Ltd., Medication, Malpractice, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

that Dr. Cullinan and Health Professionals, Ltd., a company co-founded by Cullinan and hired by Sangamon County to provide medical care at the jail, failed to adequately treat Burris’ condition beyond ...

Youell v. Correctional Medical Services, MO, Settlement, Wrongful Death Heroin, 2014

Brief • February 27, 2014

Filed under: Correctional Medical Care, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Youell v. Correctional Medical Services, MO, Settlement, Wrongful Death Heroin, 2014 RELEASE ~TINE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT WE, YOUELL AS NEXT OF FRIEND OF ELI BOYD. A MINOR AND ISAAC BENNETT, SR. FOR THE SOLE CONSIDERATION OF TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($10,000.00) PAID TO US, …

Missouri Private Jail Assessed Back Sales and Use Taxes

Article • April 15, 2013

Filed under: Private Prisons

Missouri Private Jail Assessed Back Sales and Use Taxes by The En Banc Missouri Supreme Court held that a private jail must pay $14,056.25 in sales tax and $5,459.79 in use tax, plus interest, on its purchase of prisoner meals, clothing, soap, shampoo, medical supplies and other consumables between 2000 …

St. Louis Lockups Violate Constitutional Rights, ACLU Asserts

Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, CMS, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Retaliation against Staff, Whistleblowing, HIV/AIDS, Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, Respiratory, Contagious Disease -- Misc., Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Overcrowding, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Failure to Train/Supervise, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides

Medical Services (CMS) mental health employee responded. Guards told them Randle had torn her suicide gown, made a noose, tied it around her neck and threatened to hang herself. Love ordered Randle placed ...

Youell v. Correctional Medical Services, Inc., MO, 2nd Amended Complaint, Jail Heroin Withdrawal Death, 2010

Brief • December 22, 2010

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

Revised Statute §537.080 (2009). 8. Defendant CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES (hereinafter “CMS”) is a private Missouri corporation with its principal place of business in St. Louis County, Missouri. 9 ...

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