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

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Male Reproductive, Malpractice, Escapes, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Juvenile Prisons, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Bribery/Extortion/Theft

prisoner phone use at the lockup, which is operated for the state DOC under contract by private prison giant CoreCivic. Lawson urged the state to assume control of the troubled prison. Texas: On June 6 ...

Wellpath Sanctioned for Destroying Evidence in Two Oregon Jail Death Suits

Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024

Filed under: Private Contractors, Sanctions, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Evidence - Destruction/Fabrication/Manipulation of

private prison and jail medical contractor Wellpath, LLC for destroying evidence in a suit filed over a detainee death at the Josephine County Jail (JCJ). It was the second time in just over a year ...

NaphCare Settles One Suit At Oregon Jail, Loses Motion to Dismiss Second

Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024

Filed under: Naphcare, Settlements, Motion To Dismiss

NaphCare Settles One Suit At Oregon Jail, Loses Motion to Dismiss Second by On August 2, 2024, after losing a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Jeffrey Simms-Belaire, a former ...

Oregon Supreme Court Holds Corizon Health and Other Jail Contractors Liable Under State Disability Rights Laws

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

Filed under: Corizon, Contractor Misconduct, Americans with Disabilities Act

. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But that court noted that “Oregon courts have yet to address whether a private contractor like Corizon constitutes a ‘place of public accommodation ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Wellpath, 2021

Publication • May 24, 2021

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Wellpath, 2021 CJ 2021-0283 COMMISSIONERS' JOURNAL Coos County Filing Cover Sheet TO: Coos County Clerk's Office FROM: Sheriffs Office COOS COUNTY, OREGON 05/24/2021 8:23:37 AM Please file the attached document in the selected category indicated in the box below using the following information: …

Nearly Killed by Dehumanizing Culture of Indifference, Oregon Prisoner Sues for $975,000

Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021

Filed under: Private Contractors, Deliberate Indifference

Nearly Killed by Dehumanizing Culture of Indifference, Oregon Prisoner Sues for $975,000 by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Oregon prisoner Carl Spieler, 56, suffered for three months after he was admitted to the state penitentiary in Salem in May 2018, while prison medical staff, convinced he was malingering, dismissed his …

NaphCare, Oregon Jail’s Private Healthcare Provider, Required to Disclose Records in Detox Death Suit

Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020

Filed under: Private Contractors, Drug Overdose, Disclosure of Records, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

NaphCare, Oregon Jail’s Private Healthcare Provider, Required to Disclose Records in Detox Death Suit by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson An Oregon federal court in January 2020 compelled NaphCare ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Wellpath, 2020

Publication • May 5, 2020

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Wellpath, 2020 CJ 2020-0255 COMMISSIONERS' JOURNAL COOS COUNTY, OREGON Coos County Filing Cover Sheet 05/05/2020 10:33: 10 AM TO: Coos County Clerk's Office FROM: Sheriff's. Office . Please file the attached document in the selected category indicated in the box below using the …

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Wellpath-5th Amendment, 2019

Publication • January 3, 2020

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Wellpath-5th Amendment, 2019 CJ 2020-0007 COMMISSIONERS' JOURNAL COOS COUNTY, OREGON Coos County Filing Cover Sheet TO: Coos County Clerk's Office FROM : Sheriff's Office 01/03/2020 9 :38:44 AM Please file the attached document in the selected category indicated in the box below using …

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Wellpath, 2019

Publication • June 28, 2019

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

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$10 Million Awarded Against Corizon and Oregon County for Jail Detox Death

Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019

Filed under: Corizon, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

$10 Million Awarded Against Corizon and Oregon County for Jail Detox Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 5, 2018, an Oregon federal court entered a $10 million judgment against ...

No Summary Judgment for Jail’s Denial of Mental Health Treatment; $150,000 Settlement

Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019

Filed under: Corizon, Settlements, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

medical condition. The Lane County Sheriff’s Department operates a jail in Eugene, Oregon, and contracted with Corizon Health to provide medical and mental health care for prisoners.&nbsp ...

Fricano v. Lane County, Corizon, et al., OR, settlement, failure to treat, 2018

Brief • December 14, 2018

Filed under: Corizon, Medication, Food, Water, Jail Specific, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Fourteenth Amendment, rights

Fricano v. Lane County, Corizon, et al., OR, settlement, failure to treat, 2018 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT Parties to Agreement. This Settlement Agreement (the "Agreement") is made and entered ...

Pitkin v. Corizon Health Inc., et al., OR, Judgment, Wrongful Death, Medical Negligence, 2018

Brief • December 5, 2018

Filed under: Corizon, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights

Pitkin v. Corizon Health Inc., et al., OR, Judgment, Wrongful Death, Medical Negligence, 2018 Case 3:16-cv-02235-AA Document 109 Filed 12/05/18 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC- 3rd Amendment, 2016

Publication • December 4, 2018

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC- 3rd Amendment, 2016 r-------------~'\ CJ 2018-000935 COMMISSIONERS' JOURNAL COOS COUNTY, OREGON Coos County Filing ...

Pitkin v. Corizon Health Inc., et al., OR, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death, Medical Negligence, 2018

Brief • July 20, 2018

Filed under: Corizon, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Jail Specific, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Fourteenth Amendment, rights

County jail. 15. Since opening the jail in Hillsboro in 1998, Washington County repeatedly contracted with Corizon Health, formerly Prison Health Services, to provide healthcare to jail inmates ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC, 2018

Publication • June 27, 2018

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC, 2018 CJ 2018-000360 COMMISSIONERS' JOURNAL COOS COUNTY, OREGON Coos County Filing Cover Sheet TO: Coos County Clerk's ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC, 2017

Publication • November 22, 2017

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC, 2017 ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC, 2016

Publication • September 7, 2016

Filed under: Correct Care Solutions

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC, 2016 coos co UNTY FILING COVER SHEET TO: Coos County Clerk - Filing FROM: Office of Legal Counsel COOS COUNTY ...

Mentally Ill Oregon Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Suit Settles for $7.4 Million

Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016

Filed under: Corizon, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Malpractice, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

was within Corizon policies and procedures.” Lane County terminated its contract with Corizon in mid-2015, and California Forensic Medical Group now provides medical care at LCJ. The county filed a cross ...

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