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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 …
Brief • January 12, 2017
Filed under: MHM Inc., Corizon, Staffing, Suicides
Braggs v. Dunn, AL, Interim Agreement, Systemic Medical Neglect, 2017 Case 2:14-cv-00601-MHT-TFM Document 1102-1 Filed 01/12/17 Page 1 of 5 Interim Agreement Regarding Suicide Prevention Measures As an interim agreement (the “Agreement”) resolving the issues regarding suicide prevention measures raised in Plaintiffs’ Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (Doc. No. 1075), …
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 …
Scott v. County of Ventura, CA, Complaint, Mental Health Treatment Delays, 2016 1 2 3 4 5 6 BRIAN A. VOGEL (No. 167413) HEATHER A. QUEST (No. 186749) THE LAW OFFICES OF BRIAN A. VOGEL, PC 770 County Square Drive, Suite 104 Ventura, CA 93003 Telephone: (805) 654-0400 Facsimile: (805) …
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 …
Article • October 3, 2014
Auditors Find Deficiencies in Tennessee Prison Operations by David Reutter Auditors Find Deficiencies in Tennessee Prison Operations   by David M. Reutter   A performance audit of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) was released in September 2012 by the state’s Comptroller of the Treasury. It made five findings related …
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 …
$750,000 Settlement in Alabama Prisoner’s Heat Death by A $750,000 settlement was paid to the mother of an Alabama mentally ill prisoner who died as the result of exposure to extreme heat while on psychotropic medication. Just four days after his admission to Kilby Correctional Facility (KCF), prisoner Farron Barksdale, …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
$75,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by $75,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Prisoner’s Suicide Officials at the Salt Lake City Jail settled a lawsuit involving a prisoner’s suicide for $75,000. The settlement came in the hanging death of Arthur Henderson. When he was booked on January 28, 2006, Henderson …
PA Jail Immune from Suit in Medical Services Contract Case by Correctional Medical Care, Inc. (CMC) entered into a contract with MHM Services, Inc. (MHM) to jointly bid for a health care contract at a prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MHM later had secret meetings with the city of Philadelphia and …