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| Ohio Saves $7.2 Million In Prison Prescriptions After In-Sourcing Health Care |
| By thinkprogress.org - Aviva Shen |
| Published: 10/15/2012 |
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Ohio has saved millions in the past three fiscal years since the state revamped its prison health care system and replaced contracted doctors with in-prison medical staff, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. A new report by the nonpartisan Correctional Institution Inspection Committee found the state bought nearly 300,000 fewer prescriptions for inmates in 2011 than in 2009. Ohio has been an experimental ground for prison reform after a lawsuit in 2003 alleged that the abysmal medical care in prisons amounted to cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. Since the lawsuit, the corrections department has been supervised by a federal court as they restructured health care operations and policy in state prisons. This summer, the court ruled Ohio’s new system is constitutionally compliant. The reduction in prescriptions is largely due to the installment of new in-prison doctors: Read More. |
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