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| Lawmaker calls for hearing on New York jail heath care |
| By therepublic.com- Jake Pearson |
| Published: 10/28/2014 |
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NEW YORK — A city councilman on Monday said he will hold an oversight hearing this year to examine health care services at Rikers Island and other city jails, where documents obtained by The Associated Press raised troubling questions about quality and timeliness of care in more than a dozen inmate deaths since 2009. Council health committee chairman Corey Johnson said the AP's report last week detailing 15 troubling inmate deaths called for examination of the care provided by Brentwood, Tennessee-based Corizon Health Inc., the nation's largest private provider of correctional health care. "Given that Corizon's contract is up for renewal next year, we have to take a serious look at whether they are an appropriate contracted provider," Johnson said. "From everything I've learned so far, I don't think they are." Read More. |
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