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| Advocacy groups call on District to reject prison contract |
| By washingtonpost.com- Abigail Hauslohner |
| Published: 04/08/2015 |
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Eighty-six civil rights, labor and community activist organizations called on the D.C. Council on Tuesday to reject a health-care contract that they said could worsen conditions inside the city’s jail. The Council is expected to vote next week on a $66 million contract that would give Corizon Health the authority to manage care for inmates at Washington’s Central Detention Facility and Correctional Treatment Facility. An earlier vote on the contract was delayed in December after some council members raised concerns about Corizon’s record in other state prisons. The company acknowledges they have amassed more than 1,300 lawsuits across eight states in the past five years, but that by its account Unity Health Care has amassed more lawsuits per inmate. Unity’s chief executive called those allegations not true. Read More. |
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