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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
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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
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of a privateprison transport driver for violating the civil rights of detainees. Anthony Buntyn, 56, a former driver for privateprison transport firm Prisoner Transportation Services (PTS) of America
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,” 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
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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
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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
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LaSalle Corrections Transport LLC,
LaSalle Corrections West LLC,
LaSalleManagementCompany LLC
Global Precision Systems LLC,
TransCor America LLC, CoreCivic, Inc., and
United States of America
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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
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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
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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
Centurion 003092
RELEASE IN FULL AND SETILEMEN T AGREEMEN T
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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
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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 privateprison healthcare
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Robinson v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Amended Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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