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DOC taking bids, considers privatizing prison system’s mental health services
By wjactv.com/news - Melanie Gillespie
Published: 05/23/2013

PENNSYLVANIA - Could a section of state correctional institutions become private? That's the debate among the Department of Corrections right now.

Several people called 6 News and questioned whether prisons in our area could be privatized. The DOC said the system as a whole won't be -- but it is taking bids from private companies for one department as a way to possibly cut costs.

The Department of Corrections might privatize mental health services throughout its prison systems.

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