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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 …
Article • August 23, 2016
$400,000 Award against PHS in Pennsylvania Prisoner's Medical Negligence Suit by On February 17, 2012, a Pennsylvania jury awarded a former prisoner 8400,000 in a suit over medical negligence resulting in serious injury to him. Derrick Jones was a Pennsylvania state prisoner incarcerated at SCI Albion on March 12, 2006, when …
Filing • March 10, 2016
Prison Legal News v. PHS (Corizon), VT, Complaint, public records, 2010 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. PRISON LEGAL NEWS Plaintiff v. PRISON HEALTH SERVICES, INC. Defendant Complaint and Petition for Declaratory Judgment and Permanent Injunctive Relief, with Supporting Memorandum of Law COMES NOW Plaintiff, …
Publication • February 24, 2016
Filed under: Prison Health Services
Amendment to Contract between TNDOC and Prison Health Services 2001 06/25/2001 16:01 615-741-4605 TN CCRR ADMIN SERV FAGE AMENDMENT SIX TO CONTRACT FA-96·11837-00 BETWEEN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE£?'./·. :: DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION AND PRISON HEALTH SERVICES, INC. 02/ 02 26 !.:l S': �2 This Contract, by and between the State …
Cunningham v. FBOP, CO, Order on CLA Assn Standing, Mental Health in Prisons, 2015 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 12-cv-01570-RPM HAROLD CUNNINGHAM, CARLTON DUNBAR, JOHN W. NARDUCCI, JR., JEREMY PINSON, JOHN J. POWERS, ERNEST NORMAN SHAIFER, and MARCELLUS WASHINGTON, each individually …
Article • November 2, 2015
Prison Health Services Must Indemnify Vermont against Wrongful Death Claims by Mark Wilson Prison Health Services Must Indemnify Vermont against Wrongful Death Claims by Mark Wilson On December 20, 2013, the Vermont Supreme Court held that Corizon Health, Inc. – formerly Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) – was required to …
Article • January 13, 2015
Tennessee Dumps Corizon for Higher Bidder on Prison Health Care Contract by Tennessee Dumps Corizon for Higher Bidder on Prison Health Care Contract The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) has awarded its prisoner health care contract to Centurion, a company formed when MHM Services and Centene Corp. merged. TDOC’s current …
Treatment Industrial Complex: Brief on Privatization of Correctional Medical & Mental Health Treatment AFSC of AZ 2014 TREATMENT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: How For-Profit Prison Corporations are Undermining Efforts to Treat and Rehabilitate Prisoners for Corporate Gain ion BIngo tizat a iv r P n io t a carcer In M O …
Corizon Needs a Checkup: Problems with Privatized Correctional Healthcare by Greg Dober Corizon, the nation’s largest for-profit medical services provider for prisons, jails and other detention facilities, was formed in June 2011 through the merger of Prison Health Services (PHS) and Correctional Medical Services (CMS). In April 2013, the debt-rating …
Florida County Agrees to Pay $4 Million to Deceased Prisoner’s Estate by Derek Gilna Nicholas T. Christie, incarcerated at the Lee County jail in Ft. Myers, Florida, died on March 31, 2009 after being repeatedly pepper sprayed by deputies while strapped to a restraint chair. Following three years of litigation, …
Publication • February 10, 2014
Letter to Corizon from PA Controller 2014
Publication • September 19, 2013
Contract between Corizon/Prison Health Services and Alameda County CA 2013 ZACHARY FECHHEIMER 2005 Lyon Street, San Francisco, California 94115 Office (415) 885-5918 Fax (415) 885-0685 E-mail zafechhe@gmail.com September 19, 2013 Michael J. Haddad HADDAD & SHERWIN 505 Seventh Street Oakland, CA 94612 Re.: CORIZON HEALTH, INC. REPORT OF INVESTIGATION Investigation …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
New Mexico Prison Doctor Fingered in Lawsuits by Two lawsuits filed in March 2013 seek compensatory and punitive damages against former prison physician Mark E. Walden, GEO Group, Corizon, wardens Erasmo Bravo and Timothy Hatch, and health administrator Sherry Phillips. The suits allege that numerous prisoners were fondled or received …
$450,000 Settlement in Prisoner’s Heroin Withdrawal Death Suit by In May, 2003, Prison Health Services (PHS) agreed to pay the family of Candace “Candy” Brown $450,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging inadequate medical care that resulted in Brown’s death. Brown was arrested in 2000 and taken to New York’s Monroe …
Florida Proceeds with Privatization of Prison Medical Care by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) is moving forward with a legislative mandate to privatize its entire medical system. Whether the plan is implemented, however, may depend on the outcome of a lawsuit filed by prison health care workers challenging the …
Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Prisoner's Sexual Orientation Discrimination Suit by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court's dismissal of a prisoner's lawsuit alleging discrimination based on his sexual orientation. Ricky Davis, a gay, insulin-dependent diabetic Michigan state prisoner, was screened, medically cleared and hired by …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Eleventh Circuit: Corizon Policy Led to Prisoner’s Paralysis; $1.2 Million Verdict Upheld by In a September 6, 2012 unpublished ruling, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a jury verdict that found Corizon Health, Inc., formerly Prison Health Services (PHS), had a policy or custom of refusing to send prisoners …
Idaho Supreme Court Affirms Firing of PHS Medical Director by The Idaho Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a prison doctor’s challenge to his job termination, stemming from his abusive treatment of a prisoner. Dr. John F. Noak was the medical director for Prison Health Services (PHS), …
Rippee v. Shawnee County, KS, Settlement, Jail-Medication Overdose Death, 2012 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Agreement is between Kaw Valley, Administrator of the Estate of John Bradley Rippee, deceased, and Charlotte Rippee, individually and on behalf of all heirs at law of John Bradley Rippee, deceased, (referred to in this …
California: Jail Nurse Receives $703,957 in Retaliation Suit Against County, PHS by On December 15, 2011, following a three-week trial, a federal jury in San Francisco awarded Freddie M. Davis, formerly employed at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail, $528,957 in damages stemming from retaliation she experienced after she and other …
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