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; since January 2014, at least. CommunityEducationsCenters, Inc./GEO Group, Inc. operated the jail between January 2014 and sometime in 2019, when CSG took over, and Malone has been the contract monitor
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Advanced Correctional Healthcare Ends Two Suits Over Deaths at Ohio Jail by Private jail medical providers usually win contracts with promises to save a county money. But after two federal lawsuits filed in federal court for the Northern District of Ohio in 2023 against Ohio’s Richland County and its privately …
, Wellpath Holdings, PrimeCareMedical and ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices, as well as Corizon Health, which has now been split between new prison healthcare contractor YesCare and Tehum Care Services
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NaphCare Nurse Faces Liability in Ohio Detainee’s Death from Sickle Cell Disease
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
On May 1, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed
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Drug Enforcement and Policy Center-PrivatePrison Companies and Sentencing, Jan 2022
DRUG ENFORCEMENT
AND POLICY CENTER
DEPC STUDENT PAPER SERIES
PrivatePrison Companies
and Sentencing
Amy Pratt
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Sixth Circuit Upholds Prisoner’s 18 U.S.C. § 111 Conviction for Assaulting Federally Contracted PrivatePrison Guard
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
On November 12, 2020, the Sixth Circuit
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. PrisonHealthServices, Inc., 769 F.2d 700 (11th Cir. 1985). Thus, the Court concluded that this claim against Plummer in his official capacity was really a suit against the County, so it also survived
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Ohio Experiences Continued Problems with Aramark
by Christopher Zoukis
by Christopher Zoukis
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) overpaid food service giant Aramark
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Ohio Experiences Continued Problems with Aramark
by Christopher Zoukis
by Christopher Zoukis
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) overpaid food service giant
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, management and sale of five specific prisons.
Management and TrainingCorporation (MTC) and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) took advantage of the provision. MTC contracted to operate and manage North
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Former Ohio Politician’s Negligence Case Against CCA Goes Forward by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis James Dimora, 61, was a Cuyahoga County, Ohio commissioner when he was indicted on federal racketeering and corruption charges in April 2012. While awaiting trial at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, operated by Corrections Corporation …
HRDC/PLN Obtain Landmark Nationwide Censorship Settlement with PrivatePrison Company
by Derek Gilna
by Derek Gilna
On July 24, 2017, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent
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HRDC v. Management & Training Corp, OH, Settlement, Censorship, 2017
IN THE MATTERS OF:
Prison Legal News v. Management & TrainingCorporation, et al
Case No. 2:1&.cv-01174, U.S. District Court
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HRDC v. Management & Training Corp, OH, Settlement, Censorship, 2017
IN THE MATTERS OF:
Prison Legal News v. Management & TrainingCorporation, et al
Case No. 2:1&.cv-01174, U.S
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Ohio Inspector General - Report of Investigation re Aramark, 2017
State of Ohio
Office of the Inspector General
RANDALL J. MEYER, Inspector General
Report of
Investigation
AGENCY: OHIO DEPARTMENT
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a stand against the privateprison industry,” agreed Mike Brickner, senior policy director at the ACLU of Ohio. “We have to get people out of prisons and start reinvesting in things that work
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Challenge to Ohio PrivatePrison Confinement Not Cognizable in Habeas Corpus
by Mark Wilson
The Ohio Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a prisoner’s habeas corpus petition
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by Corrections Corporation of America. [See: PLN, Nov. 2014, p.44]. Further, CIIC inspections led the state to fine private food vendor Aramark $272,000 for maggot outbreaks in prison kitchens and multiple
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Pittman v. Correctional Healthcare Companies Inc., OH, Complaint, Medical Care for Heroin Withdrawals, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-00452-TSB Doc #: 1 Filed: 04/06/16 Page: 1 of 18 PAGEID #: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO WESTERN DIVISION DARLENE PITTMAN, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of …
Dimora v. Northeast Ohio Corrections Center, OH, Order, Inmate Injury, 2016 Case: 4:14-cv-01221-BYP Doc #: 43 Filed: 03/04/16 1 of 9. PageID #: 386 PEARSON, J. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION JAMES DIMORA, Plaintiff, v. NORTHEAST OHIO CORRECTIONS CENTER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) …
