ModivCare Inc

Until 2015, Providence Service Corporation subsidiaries Providence Human Services and Providence Community Services provided “community corrections” services, including youth and adult probation and foster care programs in the U.S. The company’s probation programs followed a “user-funded” model, generating revenue by charging people on probation monthly “supervision fees.” When those on probation were unable to pay their supervision fees, the company reported them to their probation officers, effectively causing them to be rearrested.

In 2015, Providence sold its community corrections subsidiaries to Molina Healthcare, but remained involved in prison reentry services through its “workforce development” subsidiaries. In 2018, Providence sold these subsidiaries to Advanced Personnel Management (APM) of Australia.

Providence was sued numerous times for activities related to its community corrections services. In 2017, company subsidiary Providence Community Corrections (PCC) agreed to pay $14.3 million after Equal Justice Under Law brought a class action lawsuit against the company in 2015, alleging that it extorted, threatened, and abused low-income individuals on probation. According to the lawsuit, PCC illegally collected fees from tens of thousands of people on probation and violated racketeering laws by jailing individuals who were unable to pay court fines. Those represented in the lawsuit, “many of them sick or disabled and living on as little as $129 a month in food stamps,” according to The New York Times, “say they lost housing, jobs and cars, sold their blood plasma and went without food after repeated threats by the company that they would be jailed if they could not pay.”