Corizon Health Cited for Inadequate Safeguards at Rikers Island
Source: Occupational Health & Safety, August 10, 2014 According to a DOL news release, Corizon Health Inc. knowingly failed to protect its employees adequately against workplace violence and...
View ArticleThe Shady For-Profit Company Poised To Take Over DC Prison Healthcare
Source: Alice Ollstein, ThinkProgress, December 16, 2014 The DC City Council could vote as soon as Wednesday on a 5-year contract for the notorious prison healthcare company Corizon to operate at the...
View ArticleFlorida’s New Prison Boss Vows to Change the Culture
Source: Mary Ellen Klas, Miami Herald, January 21, 2015 In an unprecedented moment of candor, Florida’s newly installed prisons chief told a Senate committee that private contractors have provided...
View ArticleEvers looking to make substantial reforms to prison system
Source: Tome McLaughlin, Daily News, February 7, 2015 As he embarks on his final term in the state Senate, Greg Evers is confronted with the greatest challenge of his long legislative career. The...
View ArticleInmate Care More Complicated Since Privatization
Source: Sue Lincoln, WRKF, February 10, 2015 When Earl K. Long Hospital closed nearly two years ago, LSU’s private partner in Baton Rouge—Our Lady of the Lake—took over patient care, but refused to...
View ArticleHere are Six Companies Who Get Rich off Prisoners
Source: Ashley Nicole Black, attn:, February 21, 2015 There are currently 2.4 million people in American prisons. This number has grown by 500% in the past 30 years. While the United States has only 5%...
View ArticleBroken equipment, shattered promises: For-profit prison healthcare
Source: Beryl Lipton, MuckRock, April 7, 2015 …Incarceration does not prevent illness. It does, however, prevent clear access to appropriate care; it does make it more difficult to advocate for...
View ArticleMedical battle behind bars: Big prison healthcare firm Corizon struggles to...
Source: David Royse, Modern Healthcare, April 11, 2015 …Corizon, the licensed vocational nurse’s employer, is the nation’s largest for-profit provider of correctional health services. In February,...
View ArticleIllinois prison contractor paid $3.1 million to resolve complaints over five...
Source: Michael Sandler, Modern Healthcare, May 20, 2015 The Pittsburgh-based private company hired to provide healthcare to Illinois’ adult inmates has had claims brought against it in the past. A new...
View ArticleCheckup time for Corizon, America’s prison medical contractor
Source: Beryl Lipton, Muckrock, August 7, 2015 It’s expensive to get sick in America. For some, the good news flip side of that is that there’s a lot of money to be made in healthcare. For our prison...
View ArticleJailhouse doctor’s record raises questions about private inmate health care
Source: Brian Sonenstein, Shadow Proof, August 17, 2015 The conduct of jail doctors working on behalf of medical contractor Advanced Correctional Healthcare is at the center of an ongoing federal civil...
View ArticleEven in Government-Run Prisons, the Profiteering off of Human Lives Is...
Source: James Kilgore, Truth Out, October 4, 2015 The following is an excerpt Chapter 12, “Incarceration Inc.,” from Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights...
View ArticleSt. Louis County to privatize healthcare at jail, documents show
Source: Brian Sonenstein, Shadow Proof, October 9, 2015 According to documents obtained by Shadowproof, St. Louis “anticipates selection of an apparent successful proposer at the beginning of October...
View ArticleMoody’s downgrades Corizon’s parent company, citing contract losses
Source: Brian Sonenstein, Shadow Proof, October 16, 2015 For the fourth time in two years, Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the Corporate Family Rating (CFR) for Valitas Health Services, a...
View ArticleIncorrect Care: A Prison Profiteer turns care into Confinement
Source: Cate Graziani, MSSW, MPAff Eshe Cole, Ph.D., Grassroots Leadership, February 2016 Executive Summary: As criminal justice reform sweeps the nation, an alarming trend has emerged that could mean...
View ArticleACLU sues Ohio corrections department on behalf of hearing-impaired inmate...
Source: Eric Heisig, Cleveland.com, April 7, 2016 A hearing-impaired inmate serving 15-to-life for a 2002 Portage County killing filed suit against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction,...
View ArticleImmigrants Are Dying In Detention While ICE Ignores Its Own Medical Standards
Source: Raul Grijalva, The Nation, April 25, 2016 In three-quarters of deaths attributed to substandard medical care, the victims were held in for-profit prisons. Their deaths are tragic proof that...
View ArticleOverdose death in Nashville CCA jail prompts lawsuit
Source: Dave Boucher, The Tennessean, April 27, 2016 An inmate dying from an overdose while behind bars at Nashville’s privately operated jail makes the jail operator and Metro government liable for $5...
View ArticleNo privatization of Salem County 911 or jail medical staff to balance budget
Source: Bill Gallo, Jr, NJ.com, June 15, 2016 Salem County’s 911 dispatch center and its jail medical staff will not be privatized as a way to balance the 2016 budget. Freeholders voted 5 to 2...
View ArticlePrivate healthcare companies banking on US prison system – video
Source: Laurence Mathieu-Léger and Rupert Neate, The Guardian, June 16, 2016 Private healthcare companies descended on Austin, Texas, last month to tout their services to jail administrators at a trade...
View ArticleRecords: Nassau knew of Armor lawsuits before approving contract
Source: Paul LaRocco, NewsDay, July 23, 2016 (Abstract) Nassau lawmakers were presented with allegations of poor care by the county’s embattled private jail medical provider before they approved its...
View ArticleWHAT JOSÉ DE JESÚS’ DEATH REVEALS ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH IN DETENTION CENTERS
Source: Raquel Reichard, Latina, July 25, 2016 Last year, José de Jesús Deniz Sahagun traveled across the Mexico-U.S. border in an attempt to reunite with his three children in Las Vegas. Those plans...
View Article“HE WEIGHED 71 POUNDS. THAT WAS LIKE SOMEBODY STARVING.”
Source: Shane Bauer, Mother Jones, August 2, 2016 I met Damien Coestly on my first day on the job as a guard at Winn Correctional Center, a private Louisiana prison then run by the Corrections...
View ArticlePrivate Medical Contractors in Virginia Prisons (Audio)
Source: John Ogle, Idea Stations, September 1, 2016 A VCU expert was asked to investigate whether Virginia should be buying prison health care. Researchers found that facilities near large metropolitan...
View ArticleA disturbing lawsuit claims private prison guards forced an inmate to perform...
Source: Casey Tolan, Fusion, October 18, 2016 A former inmate of a Louisiana private prison is suing the company that runs the prison after two guards forced him to perform oral sex. Aaron Franklin,...
View ArticleTexas prisoner’s death casts spotlight on privatized health care
Source: Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, October 27, 2016 With five prison guards on his back, Michael Sabbie takes a blast of pepper spray point-blank to the face. Guards then frog-march him to a nurse for...
View ArticleEast Baton Rouge Parish Prison nurses speak out against Holden’s...
Source: Sam Karlin, Baton Rouge Business Report, November 9, 2016 A group of nurses is hoping the Metro Council will reject at today’s meeting a plan by Mayor Kip Holden to privatize management of East...
View ArticleAnother death at Eloy migrant-detention center
Source: Daniel Gonzalez, Arizona Republic, November 28, 2016 Another detainee from the deadliest immigration detention center in the nation died this week. The detainee, a 36-year-old woman from...
View ArticleAn Input Adjustment Method for Challenging Privatization: A Case from...
Source: Roland Zullo, Labor Studies Journal, December 17, 2016 Abstract: I investigate the feasibility of completely privatizing prison physical and mental health service. The study is based on bid...
View ArticleLawsuit: Understaffing Leads to Insufficient Care for Diabetic Inmates at...
Source: Steven Hale, Nashville Scene, February 9, 2017 Since it opened a little more than a year ago, Tennessee’s newest and largest prison has been a mess. Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in...
View ArticleWrongful Death Suit Filed Against Tulsa County Jail Mental Health Provider
Source: News On 6, March 14, 2017 The estate of a Tulsa County jail inmate who died after a suicide attempt last March filed a wrongful death suit on Monday. Nathan Bradshaw’s estate cited negligence...
View ArticleCorizon ordered to pay attorneys’ fees
Source: Phaedra Haywood, The New Mexican, March 21, 2017 A state district judge has ruled that Corizon Health, which formerly oversaw medical care for New Mexico prison inmates, must pay legal fees for...
View ArticleLawmaker to Rick Scott: Restore order in privately run women’s prison
Source: Mary Ellen Klas, Tampa Bay Times, March 24, 2017 Warning that inmate health and safety is at risk at the state’s largest privately run women’s prison, Rep. David Richardson asked Gov. Rick...
View ArticleIndiana Dept. of Corrections Cancels Contract with Healthcare Provider
Source: WFHB, March 20, 2017 The Indiana Department of Corrections has discontinued its contract with Corizon Health, the private corporation that handles most of the state’s inmate healthcare. Corizon...
View ArticleLawsuit: ‘Systemic failures’ led to Randall County jail injury
Source: Robert Stein, Amarillo Globe-News, March 29, 2017 A recent civil lawsuit alleges a “systemic failure” to provide medical care by Randall County jail officials led to a detainee suffering...
View ArticleOfficials Ruled Inmate’s ‘Boiling’ Death An Accident. But Documents Show They...
Source: Matt Ferner, Huffington Post, March 29, 2017 The June 2012 death of Darren Rainey, an inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution in South Florida, attracted national attention after other...
View ArticleCounty lawsuit claims jail medical service company at fault
Source: Martha Bellisle, Associated Press, April 1, 2017 Inmates and their families are suing Pierce County after they or their loved ones suffered medical problems or died at the jail, and in turn,...
View ArticleConcerns Raised About Health-Care Contractor at Clarke County Jail
Source: Blake Aued, Flagpole, April 26, 2017 At least one commissioner and activists are raising questions about the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office’s choice of a contractor to provide medical care at...
View ArticleNurse says she was fired for missing work during Hurricane Irma
Source: Lauren Seabrook, WFTV.com, September 21, 2017 Hurricane Irma hit Leesburg, Florida, hard, and resident Ami Honea’s neighborhood has piles of debris to prove it. Just before the storm blew...
View ArticleThey thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants
Source: Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter, Reveal News, October 4, 2017 Across the country, judges increasingly are sending defendants to rehab instead of prison or jail. These diversion courts...
View ArticleExclusive: Nursing Home Sought Help From Lobbyist Friend Of Governor
Source: Jim Defede, CBS Miami, November 3, 2017 State officials intended to permanently shut down the now infamous The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills in 2014, when a lobbyist with deep ties...
View Article‘The Judge Is Upset:’ Federal Court Pursues Investigation Into Corizon Health...
Source: Jimmy Jenkins, KJZZ, January 18, 2018 At a Dec. 20 status hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge David Duncan read aloud from a KJZZ report detailing allegations of denying specialty health care in...
View ArticleFight Club: Audit documents Florida juvenile justice failures
Source: Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, January 19, 2018 Florida juvenile justice administrators sometimes fail to report the deficiencies of their privately run youth programs, and don’t always...
View ArticleHow many billions of dollars does it cost taxpayers to keep Kansas and...
Source: The Kansas City Star Editorial Board, February 1, 2018 On Monday, a Kansas legislative committee on corrections got answers to questions they should have been asking all along. Rep. J. Russell...
View ArticleBrother: Cuban was healthy before dying of pneumonia in ICE custody
Source: Jeremy Redmon, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 20, 2018 The family of a Cuban man who died last month from pneumonia while in the custody of federal immigration authorities has hired...
View ArticleProos and MDOC spar over prison budget
Source: Cheyna Roth, WNMU, April 30, 2018 A Republican Senator is sparring with the Michigan Department of Corrections over privatizing prison services. The department is already trying to end one...
View ArticleHow an inmate’s death led to changes at the Hudson County jail
Source: Monsy Alvarado, NorthJersey, July 14, 2018 ... Towle's death in the early hours of July 14, 2017, and that of an immigration detainee five weeks earlier fueled allegations of medical neglect at...
View ArticleSt. Luke’s sues prison contractor over $12 million in medical bills
Source: Audrey Dutton, Idaho Statesman, July 16, 2018 St. Luke’s Health System is suing an Idaho prison contractor over $12.6 million in medical bills it says the contractor hasn’t paid. The lawsuit...
View Article$625,000 settlement approved in wrongful death suit involving Hampton Roads...
Source: Tim Dodson, Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 24, 2018 A $625,000 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against the Hampton Roads Regional Jail, its medical provider and a number of staff members...
View ArticleAuditors confirm company did not comply with medical services contract at...
Source: Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 20, 2018 he private company responsible for medical services at the Milwaukee County Jail and House of Correction failed to meet contract staffing...
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