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Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Maryland and Wexford Health Pay $200,000 to Prisoner Denied Care and Partially Blinded by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As PLN readers know, medical care in America’s prisons and jails is horrific even by the low standard courts have set to determine what is constitutionally sufficient. In yet another case, …
Court Strikes Washington Statute to Regulate GEO Group’s Notorious ICE Lockup by The Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, Washington, owned by private prison giant The GEO Group, Inc., is the sole detention facility in the state of Washington for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In 2023, state …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Milwaukee County Pays $1.05 Million Judgment for Bankrupt Armor Correctional Health to Former Jail Detainee by Miami-­based Armor Correctional Health had virtually no experience in providing medical care to prisoners when Dr. Jose Jesus Armas started the firm in 2004, but over the next few years it amassed millions of …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Prisons
Houston Detainees Shipped to Private Jails in Mississippi and Louisiana by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso With the Harris County Jail (HCJ) short 139 guards, minimum staffing ratios set by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) have mathematically capped the number of beds that can be filled at …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Colorado Prisoner Forces Correctional Health Partners to Treat His Colon Disease by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After winning a temporary restraining order (TRO) directing the medical contractor for the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) to treat his colon disease, state prisoner Arthur Burnham’s location was unknown on September 10, …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Prisons
America’s Prison Profiteers from Colonial Times Until Now by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an April 2024 article, Willamette University Van Winkle Melton Professor of Law Laura I. Appleman traces the profit motive in American criminal punishment from colonial times, aiming to better understand and reform the way private …
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 …
CoreCivic’s Successful Campaign for Mass Incarceration Continues in Tennessee by When he was picked to chair the Tennessee Republican Party’s annual Statemen’s Dinner on June 15, 2024—billed as “the largest political event of the year” in the Republican-­dominated state—Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison operator CoreCivic, brought his firm into …
Filing • August 30, 2024
Human Rights Defense Center v. Centurion Corr. Healthcare, NM, Order on Summary Judgment, Public Records, 2024 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 8/30/2024 9:27 AM KATHLEEN VIGIL CLERK OF THE COURT Jill Nohl STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE …
Brief • August 30, 2024
Human Rights Defense Center v. Centurion Corr. Healthcare, NM, Order on Summary Judgment, Public Records, 2024 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 8/30/2024 9:27 AM KATHLEEN VIGIL CLERK OF THE COURT Jill Nohl STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Virginia Takes Back One Prison from GEO Group, Closes Four More by On July 1, 2024, Virginia’s Department of Corrections (DOC) closed four prisons and was set to terminate its contract with private prison giant GEO Group, Inc. just over a month later, taking back operational control of its only …
Florida Court Strikes $10 Million of $16 Million Judgment Against Armor Correctional Health in Jail Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 30, 2023, a Florida court entered final judgment awarding $6 million to the estate of a detainee who died at Santa Rosa County Jail (SRCJ) …
Tennessee DOC Rewards CoreCivic with Pay Increase Despite Critical Watchdog Audit by When Tennessee lawmakers adopted a new $52.8 billion state budget on April 18, 2024, it hiked outlays for the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to $233 million, a $9.8 million increase that mostly went to private prison giant …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Riot at California GEO Group Lockup Sends Message to U.S. Marshals by On February 21, 2024, a riot broke out between rival groups of detainees held for the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) at a GEO Group lockup in El Centro, California. Injuries were reported to detainees and staff of the …
Brief • August 13, 2024
Youngers v. LaSallee Corrections Transport, NM, Stipulation re Defendants not Separate Entities, Wrongful Death, 2024 Case 1:20-cv-00465-WJ-JMR Document 435 Filed 08/13/24 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO Joleen K. Youngers, as the Personal Representative of the Wrongful Death Estate of …
Brief • August 2, 2024
In Re Armor Health Management LLC Liquidation, Aug. 02, 2024 Filing # 203950828 E-Filed 08/02/2024 02:48:49 PM IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA IN RE: ARMOR HEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC, and ARMOR CORRECTIONAL HEALTH & MEDICAL SERVICES OF NEW YORK, INC. Assignor, …
Brief • July 5, 2024
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Robinson v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2024 Centurion 003189 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement") 1s executed this 5 day of -3 ~ ,'j 2024, by Andrew Robinson ("Plaintiff'), an unmarried individual. …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Securus Wipes Out Months of Washington Prisoners’ Writing—Again by Writers are intimately familiar with the effort it takes to organize ideas and direct them through a keyboard into text. Most have the comfort of knowing their draft work waits for them to take the next step. But incarcerated writers do …
CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   In a suit filed in Kansas state court on July 31, 2023, former detainee Joshua Braddy accused private prison profiteer CoreCivic of negligence that resulted in his stabbing at Leavenworth Detention Center …
Tennessee DOC Faulted for High Staff Vacancy and Turnover, Inadequate Programs, PREA Violations by The Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury’s Division of State Audit released a performance audit of the state Department of Correction (DOC) on December 12, 2023. Covering a four-year period ending the previous July 31, 2023, the …
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