{"id":1657,"date":"2026-08-20T18:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:27:36","slug":"bucks-county-contractor-paid-inmates-family-more-than-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/bucks-county-contractor-paid-inmates-family-more-than-1m\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks County contractor paid inmate&#8217;s family more than $1M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continuing the Clinic and RCFP&#8217;s multi-year effort to unseal PrimeCare Medical&#8217;s wrongful-death settlements, newly unsealed records show the prison healthcare contractor paid over $1 million to the family of a Bucks County inmate who died of opioid-withdrawal complications in custody. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read about the case here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/courts\/2026\/08\/19\/bucks-county-jail-adami-primecare-medical-corrections-health-wrongful-death-lawsuit-settlement\/91195334007\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/courts\/2026\/08\/19\/bucks-county-jail-adami-primecare-medical-corrections-health-wrongful-death-lawsuit-settlement\/91195334007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New court records show PrimeCare paid over $1M to Bucks inmate family<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the Clinic and RCFP&#8217;s multi-year effort to unseal PrimeCare Medical&#8217;s wrongful-death settlements, newly unsealed records show the prison healthcare contractor paid over $1 million to the family of a Bucks County inmate who died of opioid-withdrawal complications in custody. Read about the case here: New court records show PrimeCare paid over $1M to Bucks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}