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Privatizing jail healthcare

Nueces County outsourced their jail healthcare to a private company out of Alabama that issued a bid $1 million per year lower than their closest competitor, reports the Corpus Christi Caller Times. Presumably this includes mental health, judging from Naphcare's list of services covered on its website.Naphcare also runs jail healthcare in Beaumont (Jefferson County) and quite a few other local jails and federal Bureau of Prisons facilities around the country, though it no longer performs any work in its home state after Alabama changed providers in the wake of widespread litigation. A quick search also identified a recent lawsuit out of Beaumont alleging a "Naphcare employee mistakenly gave [an inmate] an anti-psychotic drug instead of his usual blood pressure medication...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 12, 2010 (boomark / email).