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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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protected class. Then in September 1993, Shams applied for and accepted a position with “EMSA” Correctional Care at South Florida Reception Center in Miami. Shams resigned from GCI to work in Miami. Shams ...
., a subsidiary of Prison Health Services (PHS) – were deliberately indifferent to her serious medical needs. The district court’s summary judgment ruling was based on Goebert’s failure to exhaust administrative ...
EMSA Not Liable for Ohio Prisoner's Restraint-Related Injury by In this case involving an Ohio prisoner whose fingers required amputation due to allegedly improperly applied restraints ...
Article • May 15, 2007
against the prison health care company, EMSA Correctional Care, Inc., in state court. The trial court dismissed, finding that Seale had exceeded the one-year statute of limitations in filing her lawsuit ...
$143,774.55 Attorney Fee and Costs Award in New York EMSA Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On May 16, 2006, a New York federal district court magistrate recommended awarding ...
Failure to Accommodate Blind Prisoner Violates ADA by A Florida federal district court has held that a private medical contractor, EMSA Correctional Care, Inc. (EMSA), and Sheriff Ken Jenne ...
Article • May 15, 2007
but no treatment except pain killers and referrals to mental health. After release, he had to have two additional surgeries on his shoulder. A private medical care provider (EMSA in this case) is not a municipality ...
Health Services (PHS), EMSA and Correctional Health Services all of which have horrendous track records of sacrificing prisoner health and safety in pursuit of larger profits executive compensation ...
PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Prison Health Services (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service ...
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
., and EMSA--a subsidiary of the infamously inept Prison Health Services (PHS)--in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. She alleged cruel and unusual ...
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
not cause Kings death. The jury therefore awarded no damages. EMSA is a subsidiary of Prison Health Services, which has been implicated in the deaths of prisoners nationwide due to neglect, non-treatment ...
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Sixth Circuit Reverses Judgment for EMSA Physician, Remands for Trial by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a grant of summary judgment to a physician employed by EMSA ...
was then taken to the Schenectady County Jail to be seen by a nurse employed at that facility by EMSA Correctional Care [later bought out by Prison Health Services (PHS)]. The nurse placed him on the medical tier ...
to November 1998. Rodriguez's complaint alleged he was beat by jail personnel and that EMSA Correctional Care denied him proper medical treatment for his injuries. The defendants moved for summary judgment ...
in the parents' suit were the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Polk County Sheriff Lawrence Crow, and EMSA Correctional Care Inc., which had contracted to provide physical and mental health care services ...
EMSA and Nevada Jail Pay $40,000 Settlement to Quadriplegic by In April, 2002, Robert Cornwall, 30, a quadriplegic, settled a lawsuit against the Washoe county jail in Nevada for $40,000 ...
by the county for being understaffed. CMS is the nation's largest private "correctional health services" corporation [See: "Dying for Profits," PLN, Dec. 2000]. EMSA is a subsidiary of Nashville ...
claiming that jail officials, Westchester county and EMSA Limited Partnership, a for-profit business that provided the jail's medical care, had violated his Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care ...
Managed Care Infects Prison Health Services by by Adrian Lomax In September, 1996, Melody Bird complained to guards at Florida's Pinellas County Jail that she was experiencing severe chest ...