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Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020

reported frequently on Wellpath and other private medical companies such as Corizon, Wexford, Armor, NaphCare, Centurion and more. Despite promises to provide better quality medical care at a lower price ...

Georgia Advocacy Office v. Patrick Labat, Ga, Cost, Lack of Mental Care, 2022

Brief • March 1, 2022

Filed under: Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

1/30/20 2/14/19 Total: $ 64,720.69 C Taylor OA Crowder Taylor & Holiday Naphcare Jackson Coolie & Cabellero Dudley Basnight Ray 1 Ray 2 JN depo Sparkman Adger Print Costs Print Costs Print Costs ...

Fifth Circuit Reinstates Denial of Medical Care Suit Against Texas County Jail

Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018

Filed under: Diabetes, Skeletal Disorder, Failure to Treat

, 2017, Nueces County filed a third-party complaint against Naphcare, Inc., the private contractor that provides medical care at the county jail. The case remains pending. ...

Arizona Prison Forcibly Induced Labor for Pregnant Prisoners

Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023

Filed under: Naphcare, Forcible Treatment

of drugs that cause uterine contractions. These contractions can be more painful than those of spontaneous labor and carry a higher risk of soft tissue tears. NaphCare, the Alabama-based private firm ...

USDA Gives $1,000,000 Grant to Corizon to Treat More Sick Prisoners Remotely

Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022

Filed under: Corizon, Failure to Treat

, 2021, report by Newsweek noted that 49 state prison systems currently rely on contracted health care providers like Corizon and its four main competitors, NaphCare Inc., PrimeCare Medical Inc., Armor ...

List of major for-profit prison services and companies

Publication • June 5, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Transport Companies, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Wexford Health Services, Youth Services International, Civigenics, Naphcare, Management and Training Corporation, Emerald Correctional Management, Armor Correctional Health Services, California Forensic Medical Group, MHM Inc., Addus HealthCare, Community Education Centers, LaSalle Management Company, Sentinel, Aramark, Corizon, JPay, Inc., Centurion, G4S/Group 4, Private Contractors

) NaphCare, Inc. Correct Care Solutions Wexford Health Sources Armor Corr. Health Services Advanced Correctional Healthcare Correctional Medical Care Southern Health Partners MHM (mental health) Cal. Forensic ...

Virginia Mentally-Ill Man’s Death by Deterioration in Jail Cell Exhibits Policy Failures

Article • December 14, 2017

Filed under: Failure to Treat, Jail Specific, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

filed a $60 million wrongful death lawsuit against HRRJ and several other individual defendants. Among those defendants listed was NaphCare, Inc., the private company that provided health services at HRRJ ...

In Re Tehum Care Services, Inc, Stip and Order Re Christopher Brightlys Motion to Lift Stay, 2023

Brief • September 19, 2023

Filed under: Failure to Treat

to the present against (i) Centurion of Arizona LLC, (ii) Dorothy Hines, (iii) Laura Elliot, (iv) A Ferguson, (v) Natalie Bell, (vi) Nick Salyer, and (vii) NaphCare Incorporated (collectively, the “Severed Claims ...

Grassroots Leadership, Sc Cms Report, 2004

Publication

Filed under: Private Prisons, Medical

were in conjunction with a lawsuit against the provider, NaphCare, and the state.18. A three-part series on injurious health care provided by Prison Health Care [PHS] in Philadelphia’s jails criticized ...

Georgia Advocacy Office v. Jackson, GA, Complaint, Jail Conditions for Mentally Ill Prisoners, 2019

Brief • April 1, 2019

Filed under: Retaliatory Segregation, Eighth Amendment, Exercise, Plumbing, Hygiene Supplies, Booking Fees, Americans with Disabilities Act, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Staff Training

NaphCare, Inc., to ensure that its personnel provide necessary mental health care and medically appropriate living conditions to people with psychiatric disabilities. Defendant Lightbourne is a resident ...

We Wanted To Find Troubled Jails, So We Counted The Bodies

Article • February 24, 2017

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Corrections Audits, Prison/Jail Murders, Statistics/Trends, Jail Specific, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Police--Excessive Force, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)

cited in the lawsuit, corrections officers “physically restrained and pepper sprayed” Hill before taking him to medical. Staff for the private correctional medical provider NaphCare warned ...

Laube v. Haley-242 F.Supp.2d 1150 (MD AL 2003)

Case • 2003

Department of Corrections, Montgomery, AL. For DON SIEGELMAN, defendant: Edward A. Hosp, James V. Doyle, Jr., Office of the Governor, Montgomery, AL. For NAPHCARE, INC., FRANCIS HENDERSON, defendants ...

Report Blasts South Carolina Plan to Privatize Prison Health Care

Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004

Filed under: Private Prisons, CMS, Contractor Misconduct, Medical Expenses, Hepatitis

against provider NaphCare alleged the company's negligent care resulted in the premature and agonizing deaths of dozens of HIV infected prisoners in the Limestone Correctional Facility in Alabama. [See PLN ...

Deaths Soar 600 Percent at Nevada Jail Under New Sheriff

Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018

Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Jail Specific, Wrongful Death

suicide prevention training for guards; it also coincided with the award of a no-bid contract for medical care at WCJ to for-profit healthcare provider NaphCare. Compared with data from the Bureau ...

New Mexico Prisoners Suffer and Die Under Privatized Health Care

Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018

Filed under: Wexford Health Services, Corizon, Centurion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

not comment on his lawsuit. PLN has previously reported on private prison medical contractors such as Centurion, Corizon, Wexford, Armor Correctional Health Services, Correct Care Solutions and NaphCare ...

Virginia Jail Not Responding to Problems Cited in Department of Justice Report

Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Medical, Jail Specific, Mental Health

, but the transfer never occurred. His family filed suit and received a $3 million settlement from HRRJ and its medical provider at the time, Alabama-based NaphCare. [See: PLN, June 2019, p.58]. It was public outcry ...

PLN associate editor quoted re privatized prison medical care

In-the-News Article • January 1, 2011

. Louis, Mo.-based Correctional Medical Services; the Nashville-based companies PHS and Correct Care Solutions; and the Birmingham, Ala.-based NaphCare. PHS came under intense criticism and unwavering ...

DOJ Finds “Horrific” Unconstitutional Conditions at Atlanta Jail

Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Malpractice, Conditions of Confinement

to understaffing. Healthcare at the jail is provided by NaphCare, a for-profit contractor. “[A]lthough people with mental health needs are overrepresented in the jail population, the jail environment ...

Ohio County Executive and Underlings Under Investigation for Jail Corruption and Deaths

Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Police/Govt Misconduct

of their investigative fervor swinging toward the jail as prisoner deaths began increasing. Mills then attempted to shift health care contracts from MetroHealth to NaphCare. Depending on which emails Mills sent, he ...

‘Plainly Grossly Inadequate’: Federal Court Finds Arizona Prison Healthcare Deliberately Indifferent to Prisoners’ Risk of Serious Harm

Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022

Filed under: Naphcare, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Deliberate Indifference

it was awarding its next contract for prisoner health care to Alabama-based NaphCare, a company which paid almost $694,000 to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2021 to settle allegations of filing false claims ...