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In Failure-to-Treat Claims, Wellpath Denied Dismissal in Virginia, Settles in Pennsylvania
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
On November 11, 2024, privateprison and jail healthcare
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with privateprison giant GEO Group, Inc. just over a month later, taking back operational control of its only privately operated prison, Lawrenceville Correctional Center (LCC), on August 4, 2024.
The medium
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Psychiatrist Settles Virginia Jail Suicide Suit for $1.75 Million by The leading cause of death among people held in local jails is suicide. The family of Christopher Lapp, 62, learned that the hard way when he killed himself at Virginia’s Alexandria Adult Detention Center in 2021, while being held on …
in as many years before cutting ties with former healthcare provider Corizon Health in November 2021, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Mar. 2022, p.52.] The jail hired a new healthcare contractor, MEDIKO
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Fourth Circuit Says Virginia May Require Muslim Prisoner to Purchase Prayer Oil From Vendor Also Selling Pork and “Idols” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) did not violate the …
Virginia DOC Terminates Contract with Armor Correctional Healthcare
by Ashleigh Dye
Plans to de-privatizeprisoner healthcare
by Ashleigh Dye
On December 11, 2021, the Virginia Department
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that spanned the late 1980s and 1990s. There he glimpsed a vision of the future, in which privatization would be his golden ticket. He then began PrisonHealthServices, which later became Corizon Health
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After Sixth Death in Six Years, Virginia Jail Cuts Ties with Corizon Health
by Jayson Hawkins, Keith Sanders
Corizon Employee Charged with Falsifying Records
by Jayson Hawkins and Keith
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Seven Prisoners Died in 2021, One by Homicide, at Virginia’s Only PrivatePrison
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The Lawrenceville Correctional Center (LCC), Virginia’s only remaining for-profit prison, now also
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GEO Group Puts Money, Lobbyist into Defeating Bill to Prohibit PrivatePrisons in Virginia
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
As Virginia was poised to consider a bill to end private
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$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract
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Corizon Health paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it beached a contract with Nursefinders.
The February 26, 2016, settlement
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County.
Wellpath was known as CorrectCareSolutions until October of 2018. Correct Care obtained the contract to provide medical and mental health care to detainees at the Loudoun County Adult Detention
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ACLU Virginia -- Women in the Criminal Justice System - Pathways to Incarceration in Virginia, 2018 PHOTO: NARAL PRO-CHOICE OF AMERICA/FLICKR WOMEN IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: PATHWAYS TO INCARCERATION IN VIRGINIA Acknowledgement First and foremost, we would like to thank the residents of Friends of Guest House in Fairfax, …
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increasingly states and municipalities are outsourcing these functions to privateprisonertransportationcompanies, like the PTS Defendants.
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The PTS Defendants provide extradition and secure transportation
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Austin v. CorrectCareSolutions, VA, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2017
Case 2:17-cv-00291-RJK Document 79-1 Filed 12/04/17 Page 1 of 101 PageID# 1128
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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facility management services for adult males.
Colorado Department of Corrections
Alison Morgan, PrivatePrisons Monitoring Unit
2862 S. Circle Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
(719) 226-4929
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and bleeding.
ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices resumed providing medical care at Virginia state prisons on October 1, 2014 – after Corizon ended its $76.5 million two-year contract with the VDOC
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those prisons, such as the FCCW, where health care services are rendered by
privatecontractors. Privatecontractors – for example, Corizon Health, Inc. (“Corizon”) and ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices
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The suit was filed in July 2012 on behalf of five women incarcerated at Fluvanna, and names as defendants the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC), ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices and both VDOC
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– the latter being a subsidiary of privateprison firm GEO Group.
One potential incentive to privatize is to reduce the center’s operating costs, which are expected to rise. A 2011 study by the Department
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