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This site contains over 2,000 news articles, legal briefs and publications related to for-profit companies that provide correctional services. Most of the content under the "Articles" tab below is from our Prison Legal News site. PLN, a monthly print publication, has been reporting on criminal justice-related issues, including prison privatization, since 1990. If you are seeking pleadings or court rulings in lawsuits and other legal proceedings involving private prison companies, search under the "Legal Briefs" tab. For reports, audits and other publications related to the private prison industry, search using the "Publications" tab.

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Settlements in St. Louis Jail Detainee’s Heroin Withdrawal Death by David Reutter The City of St. Louis, Missouri and Correctional Medical Services (CMS, now Corizon Health) both agreed ...
Medical Services (CMS) employee, then retaliated against for reporting that incident and the sexual assault of another prisoner by a CCA guard. The district court awarded over $222,000 in attorney fees ...
, weakness and difficulty walking. The prison system’s health care provider, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), failed to properly diagnose or treat him for six months. As a result he did not receive ...
Article • January 13, 2015
, arguing it not only submitted a cheaper bid, but that Centurion lacks the requisite experience to bid. Corizon, a company created by the merger of Prison Health Services and Correctional Medical Services ...
by GEO Group in 2013 and (acquired by Correct Care Solutions in April, 2014) is the only private prison corporation involved in this segment. They operate five residential psychiatric treatment hospitals ...
the industry. Corizon’s competitors include Wexford Health Sources, Armor Correctional Health Services, NaphCare, Correct Care Solutions and Centurion Managed Care – the latter being a joint venture ...
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
of Corrections (MDOC) facility to the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center in February 2008, he came under the medical supervision and care of Correctional Medical Services, the MDOC’s private contractor ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Medical Services (CMS), a private company now known as Corizon. In an April 30, 2004 note, jail staff wrote “that Rice was unable to stand, that his entire body was jaundiced, that he had a large, three ...
contractor, Corizon, Inc., of serious constitutional violations,” Zahn wrote. She even claimed that dissemination of Stern’s findings would amount to libel. However, lead plaintiffs’ attorney Allison Blackman ...
, a Pennsylvania state jury slapped Prison Health Services (PHS) with a $400,000 verdict for inadequate medical care of a prisoner at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Albion. The award was reduced to $312,000 ...
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Filed under: CMS, Medical, HIV/AIDS
at the Maine State Prison (MSP), where medical care was provided by Correctional Medical Services (CMS). Leavitt, who had been taking HIV medications before he was incarcerated, claimed that the delay ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
CMS Pays $275,000 in New York Prisoner’s Jail Death by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a lawsuit related to a prisoner’s death. The suit, which ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
CMS Nurses Disciplined in Kentucky Prisoner’s Death by The Kentucky Board of Nursing has disciplined two nurses who were on duty when a prisoner died one day after he was booked ...
Eighth Circuit Upholds Denial of Qualified Immunity on Medical Claims Against CMS by On July 20, 2010, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in part a district court’s denial ...
Article • September 15, 2011
Filed under: Private Prisons, CMS
Correctional Center (DCC) in Dover, Delaware, filed suit in federal district court against Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the health services provider at DCC, and Spectrum Behavior Sciences, the provider ...
of Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), while ASG owns Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) and Correctional Health Services, LLC (CHS). Those three subsidiaries provide medical, dental, mental health, pharmacy ...
Article • August 15, 2011
has a medical care contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and a pharmaceutical company for delivery of prescription medicines, who receives a “fixed per prisoner per month rate plus the cost ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Medical Services (CMS) were short-listed as finalists. Conmed, a publicly-traded company with operations in seven states, had won an $18 million contract for health care services at the jail in Chesapeake ...
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
passed. Reed-Bly filed a grievance. Prison officials responded, stating that the delay was caused by DOC officials awaiting approval for the surgery from Correctional Medical Services (CMS). The grievance ...
Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), various CMS personnel and Quality Plan Administrators, Inc. (QPA), a CMS subcontractor responsible for providing dental care to state prisoners. Sullivan alleged ...
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