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| State privatizing prisoner medications |
| By theadvertiser.com |
| Published: 02/04/2010 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana prisons are hiring an outside drug company to provide medication to inmates, rather than the two dozen pharmacists currently on staff. The Civil Service Commission agreed Wednesday to let the state Department of Corrections privatize pharmacy services at all state-run adult prisons, as a way to save money. Department Undersecretary Thomas Bickham says the move will cut the costs of providing medications to prisoners annually from $2.5 million to $1.2 million. Bickham says 22 workers will be laid off, likely in April, because of the change. Read More. |
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