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Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Awards Mental Health Services Contract
By bizjournals.com
Published: 12/24/2013

MHM Services has been selected to provide mental health services to inmates in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Under the $91 million, five-year contract, MHM will continue to deliver psychiatric services for DOC inmates. Psychology services will be provided utilizing DOC staff; the same delivery method that was in place previously.

Under the direction of Gov. Corbett, the new contract, among the first of its kind in United States corrections, comes with performance-based incentives and penalties.

"No longer are we issuing contracts for just a service,'' Corrections Secretary John Wetzel said today. "From this point on, our contracts will focus on results. The new contract includes performance measures that will ensure taxpayers are getting what they pay for, including inmates who leave our system better than when they entered it.''

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