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Health care choice panned
By Detroit Free Press
Published: 12/23/2008

MICHIGAN - Michigan is hiring a new company to treat prisoners with medical problems after investigators criticized the existing health provider for low productivity and not having enough doctors. Prison Health Services Inc. learned this month that it would be recommended for a 3-year, $326-million contract with the state Department of Corrections starting in April. Nothing is official until a state board gives final approval, likely in January.

The decision was criticized Monday by Elizabeth Alexander of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project, an advocate for sick inmates. She said Brentwood, Tenn.-based Prison Health Services has a worse reputation than Correctional Medical Services Inc., a St. Louis-based company that has run Michigan's prison care since 1998. Read more.

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