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Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Sixth Circuit Upholds $6.4 Million Jury Award Against Corizon Nurses For Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Alcohol Withdrawal by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 16, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the verdict and jury award of $6.4 million in compensatory damages against …
Ninth Circuit Remands Transgender Idaho Prisoner’s $2.63 Million Attorney Fee Award for Recalculation— Against Bankrupt Corizon Health Successor by Transgender Idaho state prisoner Adree Edmo filed suit in 2017 seeking gender-confirming surgery. She suffered from an extreme case of gender dysphoria—a recognized medical condition—and had repeatedly attempted self-castration. As PLN …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: Corizon, Settlements, Bankruptcy
Corizon Health Bankruptcy Settlement Grows, But Only by $21 Million by Under the terms of a settlement announced in the bankruptcy of former prison medical contractor Corizon Health on July 17, 2024, the firm’s creditors will receive almost 39% more than the amount they originally negotiated. However, that brings the …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Texas Bankruptcy Court Rejects Proposed Settlement of Prisoner Claims Against Corizon Health by On April 11, 2024, a Texas bankruptcy court rejected a proposed $54 million settlement that would have paid just a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars owed to prisoners who won judgments or secured settlement …
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 • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Arizona Supreme Court Reverses Summary Judgment for Corizon Health in State Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Diabetes by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 11, 2023, the Supreme Court of Arizona reversed a grant of partial summary judgment to Corizon Health, the former private medical contractor for the state Department …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Two Kansas Prison Guards Fired, Six Disciplined for Mocking Injured Prisoner and Refusing Her Help by On October 17, 2023, a month after a Topeka Correctional Facility prisoner fell and had to crawl back to her cell because guards refused to help her, the Kansas Department of Corrections (DOC) fired …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
After Eight Deaths in Eight Years, Virginia Jail Introduces—Pickleball? by Having recorded eight deaths in eight years, Virginia’s Arlington County Jail was likely desperate for good news when it reported in mid-November 2023 that detainees competed in the lockup’s first pickleball tournament. The densely populated county adjacent to Washington, D.C., …
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare by J.D. Schmidt by J.D. Schmidt On November 14, 2022, the Florida arm of Centurion Health, one of the nation’s largest private prison and jail healthcare companies, filed a lawsuit in Putnam County …
Corizon Health Bankruptcy Delayed by Revelation of Attorney’s Affair With Mediator by On November 14, 2023, the federal Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a new mediator to oversee the dissolution of Corizon Health successor Tehum Care Services, Inc. Retired bankruptcy judge Christopher Sontchi replaced former Judge …
How “Big Capital” Learned to Love Mass Incarceration by How “Big Capital” Learned to Love Mass Incarceration “Who is accountable for the imposition of punishment in our carceral system?” asked Laura I. Appleman, Professor of Law at Willamette University, in an article published on April 13, 2023. An answer is …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
$100,000 Settlement Reached With Corizon Health for Failure to Provide Arizona Prisoner Eye Care by On July 25, 2022, a settlement was reached between Corizon Health, Inc. and an Arizona prisoner to whom it allegedly denied eye care, resulting in partial vision loss. Under the agreement, the firm owes $100,000 …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Corizon Bankruptcy Stalls Suit By Alleged Rape Victims of Rikers Island Guard by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A group of women who claimed they were raped by a physician’s assistant at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has now been screwed two more times. First, prosecutors apparently bungled …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Corizon Executes “Texas Two-Step,” Spinning Off Debt Into Bankrupt New Firm to Avoid Paying Creditors and Lawsuit Winners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Corizon Heath, Inc. has engaged in legal maneuvers over the course of the past year that are intended to limit how much it must pay on …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion
New Jail Healthcare Provider Coming to Albuquerque – Again by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss New Mexico’s Bernalillo County is terminating the contract with its jail’s private healthcare contractor effective July 25, 2023. County Manager Julie Morgas Baca sent word to YesCare – the corporate descendant of Corizon Health …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Corizon Bankruptcy Threatens $6.4 Million Award to Family of Michigan Prisoner Whose Five-Day Jail Term Turned Into Death Sentence by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On December 5, 2022, a jury in federal court for the Western District of Michigan awarded $6.4 million to the estate of Wade Jones, 40, …
Brief • February 15, 2023
Filed under: Corizon, Bankruptcy
Amended- Tehum DBA Corizon Health Services, Inc.-Voluntary Petition for Filing Bankruptcy, 2023 Case 23-90086 Document 3 Filed in TXSB on 02/15/23 Page 1 of 8 Fill in this information to identify the case: United States Bankruptcy Court for the: Southern Texas ____________________ District of _________________ (State) 23-90086 11 Case number …
Brief • February 13, 2023
Filed under: Corizon, Bankruptcy
Tehum DBA Corizon Health Services, Inc.-Voluntary Petition for Filing Bankruptcy, 2023 Case 23-90086 Document 1 Filed in TXSB on 02/13/23 Page 1 of 8 Fill in this information to identify the case: United States Bankruptcy Court for the: Southern Texas ____________________ District of _________________ (State) 11 Case number (If known): …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Oregon Supreme Court Holds Corizon Health and Other Jail Contractors Liable Under State Disability Rights Laws by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On June 3, 2022, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that private companies providing services in jails and prisons are liable under state disability rights laws — even though …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion
Centurion Health Supplants Corizon in Missouri After Court Ruling by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders After a trial on November 3, 2021, a Missouri court ruled in favor of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) in a challenge to its decision replacing its private healthcare contractor Corizon with a competitor, …
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