Settlement records that our Clinic and co-counsel Paula Knudsen Burke at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press have successfully unsealed on behalf of the Bucks County Courier Times demonstrate that prison healthcare contractor PrimeCare Medical and Bucks County have paid out $3.8 million to settle wrongful death claims involving allegations of inadequate healthcare at the Doylestown jail in recent years.
These records should never have been sealed in the first place because the public has a right to know what the government is doing with the public’s money and about any shortcomings in the healthcare provided to some of Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable citizens.
Read more about our unsealing efforts here.