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| Arizona Fines Its State Prisons’ Private Health Care Provider For Failing To Correctly Dispense Medication |
| By thinkprogress.org - Tara Culp-Ressler |
| Published: 10/01/2012 |
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After Arizona’s Republican-controlled legislature pushed to privatize health care for the inmates in their state, they auctioned off the job of providing prisoners with health services to the highest-bidding company. Wexford Health Sources Inc. won a $349 million, three-year contract with the state prison system and took over inmate care on July 1. But just a few short months after the Pittsburgh-based company took over, the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) is stepping in to correct issues with the inadequate care it has provided to state inmates. The DOC is leveling a $10,00 fine on the company for its negligence in dispensing proper medication to prisoners in Arizona’s state prison facilities, outlining Wexford’s damaging effects on sick prisoners’ quality of life in a strongly-worded letter to the company’s officials: Read More. |
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