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Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
$1 Million Partial Settlement for Washington Jail Detainee’s Leg Amputation by Reports surfaced in October 2024 that low-level medical professionals in multiple Washington jails were making decisions about detainee healthcare that they were not trained or licensed to make. That was due to an absence of higher-level medical staffers, which …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
NaphCare Settles One Suit At Oregon Jail, Loses Motion to Dismiss Second by On August 2, 2024, after losing a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Jeffrey Simms-­Belaire, a former detainee at Oregon’s Washington County Jail (WCJ), private jail medical contractor NaphCare, Inc. secured an agreement with a …
NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A settlement approved by the federal court for the Eastern District of California on January 16, 2024, recalls an all-­too familiar jail story. A wheelchair-­bound detainee named …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Eleventh Circuit Revives Claim Against NaphCare for Wrongful Death of Atlanta Jail Detainee by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney “This appeal arises from the tragic death of Antonio May,” began the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 7, 2023. As longtime PLN readers …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
NaphCare Nurse Faces Liability in Ohio Detainee’s Death from Sickle Cell Disease by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 1, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed the grant of summary judgment to a NaphCare nurse accused of deliberate indifference to a pretrial detainee’s …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Naphcare’s Lack of Care Leads to $26.75 Million Verdict for Washington Jail Death by “The jury sent a strong message that Naphcare’s conduct was completely unacceptable,” said attorney Edwin Budge of the Seattle law firm of Budge & Heipt, PLLC. He was responding to a federal jury’s July 2022 award …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Arizona Prison Forcibly Induced Labor for Pregnant Prisoners by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD After a 2019 incident during which a prisoner gave birth in her cell – delivering a baby into the toilet while guards ignored her cries for help – Arizona’s Perryville Prison in Buckeye started …
Article • December 5, 2022
Death Toll Mounts at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail with Reports of Malnutrition, Medical Neglect and Vermin by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When a 35-year-old detainee died in his cell at the Fulton County Jail (FCJ) in Atlanta on September 13, 2022, he was found covered in lice. …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
‘Plainly Grossly Inadequate’: Federal Court Finds Arizona Prison Healthcare Deliberately Indifferent to Prisoners’ Risk of Serious Harm by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 30, 2022, the federal court for the District of Arizona found that the healthcare state prisoners get is frankly awful — unconstitutionally so. As is …
Publication • October 1, 2022
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Arizona Naphcare Proposal, Oct. 2022 Solicitation Amendment No. 18 State of Arizona Attachment I Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry Procurement Services l645WJefferson Street Phoenix. AZ 85007 Offer and Acceptance Form Solicitation No. BPM003905 Inmate Correctional Healthcare SUBMISSION OF OFFER: Undersigned hereby offers and agrees to provide Inmate Correctional Healthcare …
Private Health Care Services in County Jails Comes at High Price by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An analysis published on October 26, 2020 by Reuters showed U.S. jails that contracted with private health care companies had higher death rates on average among prisoners and detainees than those with government-run …
Dawson, et al. v. South Correctional Entity (SCORE), et al., WA, complaint, wrongful death, 2019 Case 2:19-cv-01987 Document 1 Filed 12/05/19 Page 1 of 51 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 …
Ohio Jail’s Private Healthcare Provider Denied Summary Judgment in Failure to Treat Prisoner’s Fractured Pelvis by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio denied motions for summary judgment filed by private healthcare provider NaphCare Inc. (NaphCare) and its employee Emergency Medical …
List of major for-profit prison services and companies U.S. FOR-PROFIT PRIVATIZED CORRECTIONAL SERVICES January 2017 – Not a full listing Facility Operations CoreCivic (Corrections Corp. of America) The GEO Group Management & Training Corp. Community Education Centers LaSalle Corrections Emerald Companies Medical / Mental Health Care Corizon Health (Beecken Petty …
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
New Health Care Provider Picked for Oregon Jail after Audit Criticizes Corizon by Mark Wilson New Health Care Provider Picked for Oregon Jail after Audit Criticizes Corizon by Mark Wilson A Birmingham, Alabama health care company has taken over medical care at the Washington County jail in Hillsboro, Oregon in …
Publication • December 30, 2013
WA DOC Contract with NaphCare, Inc. 2013 ..-. State of Washington Department of Corrections Contract No. K9379 On-Site Medical Contract This Contract is entered into by and between the Department of Corrections, an agency of the state of Washington, hereinafter referred to as Department, and NaphCare, Inc, DBA NaphCare, located …
Private Prison Health-care Industry Grows as States Cut Costs, Bringing in Millions of Dollars by Yana Kunichoff Aleshia Napier was 18 years old in 2006 when she hung herself with a bed sheet at the Broward Correctional Institution in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after being placed in solitary confinement despite her …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
42 Alabama AIDS Prison Deaths In Five Years Spurs Major Medical Suit Settlement by John Dannenberg By John E. Dannenberg The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) settled a class action federal civil rights lawsuit brought by Limestone Correctional Facility AIDS-afflicted prisoners who had complained of unconstitutional conditions of medical treatment …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Settlement Brings Alabama DOC's Diabetic Treatment into 21st Century by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed on January 15, 2004, to settle a lawsuit brought by diabetic prisoners by upgrading their medical care. The agreement sets a precedent for management and care of …
The Deadly Health Services of Naphcare in Alabama by Lonnie Burton It is often said that you can tell a lot about a society by checking the condition of its prisons. Based on the way prisoners in Alabama are treated (or, more accurately stated, not treated), citizens of that state …
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