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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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Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Sixth Circuit Upholds $6.4 Million Jury Award Against Corizon Nurses For Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Alcohol Withdrawal by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 16, 2024, the United ...
Ninth Circuit Remands Transgender Idaho Prisoner’s $2.63 Million Attorney Fee Award for Recalculation— Against Bankrupt Corizon Health Successor by Transgender Idaho state prisoner Adree ...
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Corizon, Settlements, Bankruptcy
Corizon Health Bankruptcy Settlement Grows, But Only by $21 Million by Under the terms of a settlement announced in the bankruptcy of former prison medical contractor Corizon Health on July ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Texas Bankruptcy Court Rejects Proposed Settlement of Prisoner Claims Against Corizon Health by On April 11, 2024, a Texas bankruptcy court rejected a proposed $54 million settlement ...
, Wellpath Holdings, PrimeCare Medical and Armor Correctional Health Services, as well as Corizon Health, which has now been split between new prison healthcare contractor YesCare and Tehum Care Services ...
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
: Windhurst v. Ariz. Dep’t of Corr., 536 P.3d 764 (Ariz. 2023). Centurion Health took over DRCC healthcare in July 2019. As PLN reported, Corizon Health is attempting to dodge settlements in dozens ...
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
denied any systemic issues with the prison or its medical care provider, Centurion Health. DOC tapped Centurion Health to replace Corizon Health, saying it hoped to improve a poor quality of care ...
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
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 ...
Corizon Health Bankruptcy Delayed by Revelation of Attorney’s Affair With Mediator by On November 14, 2023, the federal Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a new ...
.29.] GEO Group, also publicly traded, owns psychiatric hospital subsidiary GEO Care; electronic monitoring firm BI, Inc.; and halfway house operator Community Education Centers. HIG Capital, a private ...
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
, as was Centurion Healthcare—which had replaced Corizon Health in June 2019 as DOC’s private medical provider—since there was no evidence Centurion Healthcare had delayed or denied Campbell’s ...
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
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 ...
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Corizon Executes “Texas Two-Step,” Spinning Off Debt Into Bankrupt New Firm to Avoid Paying Creditors and Lawsuit Winners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Corizon Heath, Inc. has engaged ...
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion
healthcare contractor effective July 25, 2023. County Manager Julie Morgas Baca sent word to YesCare – the corporate descendant of Corizon Health – on January 26, 2023, pulling the plug two years ...
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Corizon Bankruptcy Threatens $6.4 Million Award to Family of Michigan Prisoner Whose Five-Day Jail Term Turned Into Death Sentence by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On December 5, 2022 ...
Brief • February 15, 2023
Filed under: Corizon, Bankruptcy
Amended- Tehum DBA Corizon Health Services, Inc.-Voluntary Petition for Filing Bankruptcy, 2023 Case 23-90086 Document 3 Filed in TXSB on 02/15/23 Page 1 of 8 Fill in this information to identify ...
Brief • February 13, 2023
Filed under: Corizon, Bankruptcy
Tehum DBA Corizon Health Services, Inc.-Voluntary Petition for Filing Bankruptcy, 2023 Case 23-90086 Document 1 Filed in TXSB on 02/13/23 Page 1 of 8 Fill in this information to identify the case ...
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
. 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 ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion
Centurion Health Supplants Corizon in Missouri After Court Ruling by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders After a trial on November 3, 2021, a Missouri court ruled in favor of the state Department ...
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