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HRDC Wins $480,000 in Legal Fees from Centurion for Denied New Mexico Records

Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025

Filed under: Centurion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Medical Records, Misdiagnosis, Failure to Treat, Malpractice, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Public Records Act, HRDC Publications, HRDC Litigation

HRDC Wins $480,000 in Legal Fees from Centurion for Denied New Mexico Records by Chuck Sharman On February 17, 2025, Paul Wright, Executive Director of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC ...

New Mexico Corrections Department Continues Pattern of Abuse With Contract Medical Provider Wexford Health Sources

Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025

Filed under: Wexford Health Services, Systemic Medical Neglect, Malpractice, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

cost of this arrangement to prisoners’ health—not to mention $8 million in lawsuit settlement payments to them or their estates—was laid bare in agreements obtained from Centurion ...

Tenth Circuit Affirms PTS Driver’s Conviction for Torturous Detainee Transport

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

Filed under: Transport Companies, Retaliatory Transfers, Transportation, Deliberate Indifference

of a private prison transport driver for violating the civil rights of detainees. Anthony Buntyn, 56, a former driver for private prison transport firm Prisoner Transportation Services (PTS) of America ...

HRDC Wins Massive New Mexico Records Trove from Centurion

Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024

Filed under: Centurion, Settlements, Public Records, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), HRDC Litigation

,” the Court opined. Instead it found that the Court of Appeals also provided guidance in a similar case against Corizon Health, Centurion’s predecessor in providing NMCD healthcare. Quoting N.M ...

Human Rights Defense Center v. Centurion Corr. Healthcare, NM, Order on Summary Judgment, Public Records, 2024

Filing • August 30, 2024

Filed under: Centurion, Public Records Act, HRDC Litigation

Human Rights Defense Center v. Centurion Corr. Healthcare, NM, Order on Summary Judgment, Public Records, 2024 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 8/30/2024 9:27 AM KATHLEEN VIGIL ...

Human Rights Defense Center v. Centurion Corr. Healthcare, NM, Order on Summary Judgment, Public Records, 2024

Brief • August 30, 2024

Filed under: Centurion, Public Records Act, HRDC Litigation

Human Rights Defense Center v. Centurion Corr. Healthcare, NM, Order on Summary Judgment, Public Records, 2024 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 8/30/2024 9:27 AM KATHLEEN VIGIL CLERK ...

Youngers v. LaSallee Corrections Transport, NM, Stipulation re Defendants not Separate Entities, Wrongful Death, 2024

Brief • August 13, 2024

Filed under: LaSalle Management Company, Wrongful Death

LaSalle Corrections Transport LLC, LaSalle Corrections West LLC, LaSalle Management Company LLC Global Precision Systems LLC, TransCor America LLC, CoreCivic, Inc., and United States of America ...

Robinson v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2024

Brief • July 5, 2024

Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice

Robinson v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2024 Centurion 003189 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE ...

Lujan v. Eyzaguirre, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2024

Brief • May 30, 2024

Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice

Lujan v. Eyzaguirre, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2024 Centurion 003079 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement ...

Migrants at New Mexico CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Forced to Clean Up Sewage with Bare Hands

Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Sewage, Detention - Generally, Immigration Detention

Migrants at New Mexico CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Forced to Clean Up Sewage with Bare Hands by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When raw sewage flooded two cell blocks at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) on November 14, 2023, guards working for its private operator, CoreCivic, ordered some …

Mathis v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2024

Brief • March 20, 2024

Filed under: Centurion, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Mathis v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2024 Centurion 003092 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETILEMEN T AGREEMEN T ...

Salazar v. Centurion Detention Health Services, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2024

Brief • February 6, 2024

Filed under: Centurion, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Salazar v. Centurion Detention Health Services, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2024 Centurion 003139 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE IN FULL ...

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare

Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024

Filed under: MHM Inc., Corizon, Centurion, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Retaliation, Systemic Medical Neglect, Cancer, Private Contractors, Frivolous Litigation, Disclosure of Records, Declaratory Judgment, Public Records, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, PLN Litigation, Censorship, Articles About PLN, Public Records Act, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), HRDC Litigation

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 private prison healthcare ...

Robinson v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Amended Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2023

Brief • November 17, 2023

Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice

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Lucero v. CoreCivic, Inc., et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2023

Brief • August 17, 2023

Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice

Lucero v. CoreCivic, Inc., et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2023 Centurion 003073 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGRE EMEN T THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ...

Grano v. Penitentiary of New Mexico, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2023

Brief • August 17, 2023

Filed under: Centurion, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Grano v. Penitentiary of New Mexico, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death (Medical), 2023 Centurion 003004 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT ...

Padilla v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2023

Brief • July 25, 2023

Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice

Padilla v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2023 Centurion 003145 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE ...

New Jail Healthcare Provider Coming to Albuquerque – Again

Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023

Filed under: Corizon, Centurion

healthcare contractor effective July 25, 2023. County Manager Julie Morgas Baca sent word to YesCare – the corporate descendant of Corizon Health – on January 26, 2023, pulling the plug two years ...

Lovato v. MTC Medical, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2023

Brief • July 11, 2023

Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice

Lovato v. MTC Medical, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2023 Centurion 003068 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ...

Pino v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2023

Brief • July 6, 2023

Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice

Pino v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2023 Centurion 003171 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE ...

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