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USDA Gives $1,000,000 Grant to Corizon to Treat More Sick Prisoners Remotely
by Chuck Sharman
Tennessee-based Corizon Health, one of the nation’s largest private for profit health care providers to prisons, with annual revenues of at least $800 million, announced on November 3, 2021, that it had received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) “to expand distance …
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
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- $650,000 Jury Verdict Upheld in NY Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Claim; Motion for Fees Denied Due to Contingency Agreement, by David Reutter
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- California Federal Prison Warden Charged with Sexually Abusing Prisoner
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- California Town Fighting to Keep Prison Open, by Keith Sanders
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- HRDC Advances in Suit Against Centurion to Obtain New Mexico Prisoner Medical Litigation Records, by David Reutter
- $281,000 Awarded to Colorado Prisoner Retaliated Against for Grievances, by David Reutter
- Indiana Supreme Court Denies Relief to Prisoner Whose Commissary Account Was Garnished, by Casey Bastian
- Colorado Using SWIFT but Cheap Wildlands Firefighters, by Edward Lyon
- Michigan Supreme Court Holds Convicted Prisoner Entitled to Pre-Trial Jail Time Credit
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- Second Circuit Reverses Dismissal of NY Prisoner’s Due Process Claim on Grounds It Was Abandoned on Appeal, by David Reutter
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- $9.8 Million in Settlements Reached with South Carolina County and Wellpath in Gruesome Jail Death, May 1, 2026. Failure to Treat, Sanitation, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Deliberate Indifference.
- $2.135 Million Partial Settlement Reached in Schizophrenic Detainee’s Death from “Gross Medical Neglect” at South Carolina Jail, May 1, 2026. Prison Health Services, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Deliberate Indifference.
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- Almost $1 Million in Settlements Paid to Three Nevada Prisoners, April 1, 2026. Cancer, Failure to Treat, Overdetention, Deliberate Indifference.

