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| Corizon paid $4.5M to settle inmate lawsuits |
| By santafenewmexican.com- Phaedra Haywood |
| Published: 06/29/2016 |
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Corizon Correctional Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit provider of inmate medical services, paid out more than $4.5 million to settle lawsuits brought by New Mexico inmates from 2007 until the end of May, when it lost its contract with the state, according to figures released by the company on Tuesday. The information was limited to a spreadsheet with the dollar amounts of payouts made to what appears to be 59 different plaintiffs and the name of the prison facility where the claims originated. Most of the payouts appear to be related to a former Corizon doctor, Mark E. Walden, who was accused in lawsuits of sexually abusing dozens of inmates in 2011 and 2012 at the Guadalupe County Correctional Facility in Santa Rosa and the Northeast New Mexico Detention Facility in Clayton. All the payouts released Tuesday were related to those two facilities. The release came in a partial response to a public records request filed by The New Mexican, the Albuquerque Journal and the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government. Read More. |
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