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$15,379,091 Judgment Entered Against Delaware DOC’s Former Health Care Provider for Narcotics and Medicare Fraud
by Chuck Sharman
Under a pair of consent judgments filed in federal court on October 29 and November 1, 2021, troubled former Delaware Department of Corrections (DOC) health care contractor Connections Community Support Programs (CCSP) agreed to pay the federal and state governments a total of $15,379,091.60 to settle claims ...
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- Environmental Indifference, by Anthony Moffa
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- $15,379,091 Judgment Entered Against Delaware DOC’s Former Health Care Provider for Narcotics and Medicare Fraud, by Chuck Sharman
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- Fourth Circuit Holds CoreCivic Immigration Detainees in New Mexico Not “Employees” Under FLSA
- San Luis Obispo County Jail Conditions Violate Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, by Keith Sanders
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- BOP Trust Fund Accounts Reportedly Shield Prisoners from Payment Obligations, by Dale Chappell
- $53 Million Settlement in Los Angeles Jail Strip Search Lawsuit Approved, by David Reutter
- Disenfranchisement the Old Fashioned Way, by Jayson Hawkins
- Whistleblower Alleges Hawaii Prison Officials Provided False Audit Data, by Kevin Dayton
- HRDC Sues Lincoln County Wisconsin Jail over Censorship Practices
- Ninth Circuit: Pretrial Detainees Have Right to Direct-View Safety Checks, by David Reutter
- Federal Prisons’ Switch to Scanning Mail Is a Surveillance Nightmare, by Lauren Gill
- Eleventh Circuit: Preliminary Injunctions Have 90-Day Limit Under PLRA; Permanent Injunction Required to Extend Relief, by David Reutter
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Illegal Juvenile LWOP Sentence Undermined Validity of Later Conviction, by Douglas Ankney
- Eighth Circuit Rules District Court Must Use Federal Law for Admissibility of Expert Testimony, by Douglas Ankney
- Too Many In-Custody Deaths of BOP Prisoners are Unnecessary and Preventable, by Casey Bastian
- California Supreme Court: Prisoners Cannot Legally Possess Cannabis, by Casey Bastian
- Public Records Suit Filed Against Florida DOC To Obtain Formula Used To Compute Sentences
- History Professor Fired After Criticizing University’s Racist Past and Pro-Prison Present, by Keith Sanders
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- Salvation Army Sued for a Failing to Pay Wages to Drug Program Participants
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- New Jersey Women’s Prison to Close After Latest Abuse Debacle, by Jayson Hawkins
- Eighth Circuit Holds Arkansas Jailers Entitled to Qualified Immunity in Prisoners’ Suit Over Black Mold in Showers, Lack of Cleaning Supplies, by Matthew Clarke
- ABA’s Private Prisons Prophecy Comes to Pass, by Edward Lyon
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