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prisoner phone use at the lockup, which is operated for the state DOC under contract by privateprison giant CoreCivic. Lawson urged the state to assume control of the troubled prison.
Texas: On June 6
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Corizon Bankruptcy Stalls Suit By Alleged Rape Victims of Rikers Island Guard
by Chuck Sharman
by Chuck Sharman
A group of women who claimed they were raped by a physician’s assistant
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US Marshalls Terminate Contract with GEO Snitch Camp at Queens NY Detention Facility by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On March 16, 2021, the Queens Daily Eagle reported that the federal government had declined to renew a contract with for-profit prison contractor GEO Group to operate the Queens Detention Facility …
to a private company.
Private health care companies started springing up all over. Today’s modern industry is dominated by two major corporations—Corizon and WellPath. A 1999 survey found nine state
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GEO Jail in New York City Sees Rapid Spread of Coronavirus by A GEO Group-run jail in Queens, New York City, saw coronavirus cases surge in the facility in May 2020. The 222-bed medium/minimum-security federal Queens Detention Facility, New York City’s only privately run jail, reported 25 prisoners and 10 …
-trial detainee Pedro Sanchez, Jr. has survived a motion to dismiss filed by the county jail’s medical provider, CorrectCareSolutions (now known as Wellpath), and several of the company’s
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Sanchez v. NY CorrectCareSolutions Medical Services, et al., NY, Order, Wrongful Death, 2018
Case 6:16-cv-06826-CJS Document 30 Filed 12/11/18 Page 1 of 27
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN
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PrimeCareMedical of New York Inc., Re: Proposal for Comprehensive Services - Putnam County, 2018
Putnam County Correctional Facility
Inmate Health Care Services
RFP – 7-18
Table of Contents
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, they notified CorrectionalMedicalCare (CMC), the jail’s for-profit health care provider, and took him to the infirmary. There, a CMC nurse gave Cannon Gatorade and returned him to his cell. Jail video
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New York Dept. of Corrections and Community Supervision and JPayInc., re inmate kiosks, 2018
STATE OF NEW YORK AGREEMENT
STATE AGENCY (Name & Address):
New York State Department of Corrections
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, CorrectionalMedicalCare (CMC), as well as Ellis Hospital and staff members Emre Umar and Maria Carpio, of implementing unconstitutional policies and practices.
In addition, Helijas argued that &ldquo
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suicide at the Nassau County Jail. The jury found the county and its medical contractor, ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices, were negligent and had violated Ryan’s constitutional rights.
Ryan
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filed in federal district court in Manhattan. “I don’t think anyone can recall a case where the abuse and mistreatment was more egregious.”
Corizon Health, a private health care provider
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County Jail in New York in April 2017, alleging that the facility and its medical contractor, CorrectionalMedicalCare, wrongfully withheld medication that could have prevented his death.
The complaint
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against ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices, the medical provider for the jail in Nassau County. The suit alleged a dozen prisoners had died at the facility, in large part due to substandard medical care
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refused to give the families of Tommie Lee Jones and Daniel Pantera the satisfaction of terminating the county jail’s contract with for-profit healthcare provider ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices
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Sanchez v. NY CorrectCareSolutions Medical Services, et al., NY, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2017
Case 6:16-cv-06826-CJS Document 14 Filed 04/28/17 Page 1 of 63
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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County
Sheriff's Department, Armor
Correctional Hea~th Services, Inc.,
and ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices of New York, Inc.,
Defendants.
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SEYBERT, District Judge
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New York Counties, Corizon Reach $1.85 Million Settlement in Detainee’s Death
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Two New York counties agreed to pay $1.85 million to settle a lawsuit over the July 2011 death of detainee
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