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| Osceola may hire private firm to handle inmate health care |
| By orlandosentinel.com- David Breen |
| Published: 07/21/2014 |
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Osceola County is working on a deal to hire a private health-care company for jail inmates that has been sued elsewhere over alleged poor care and, in one case, the death of a prisoner. Commissioners have voted to begin negotiations with Miami-based Armor Correctional Health Services. They did so over the objections of several members of the jail's health-care staff who raised objections about quality of care, liability issues and whether the deal would end up proving more expensive to taxpayers. "This is a starting point for negotiation," County Commission Chairman Fred Hawkins Jr. said at a meeting last week. "Let's just see where it goes." Read More. |
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