The nation's largest for-profit provider of inmate medical services has reached a nearly $4.6 million settlement with New Mexico prisoner.
Corizon Correctional Health settled claims filed by 59 inmates at Guadalupe County Correctional Facility in Santa Rosa and the Northeast New Mexico Detention Facility in Clayton. Most of the payouts appear to be related to a former Corizon doctor who was accused in lawsuits of sexually abusing dozens of inmates at those prisons.
Corizon fired the doctor in July 2012 after several inmate complaints.
The settlements ranged from $7,130 to $192,400, with 21 settlements of more than $100,000.
The information was released as a partial response to a public records request filed by The New Mexican, the Albuquerque Journal and the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government.
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