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Harsh Medicine: New York Times Exposes How Private Health Care in Jails Can Be a "Death Sentence" for Prisoners

Harsh Medicine: New York Times Exposes How Private Health Care in Jails Can Be a "Death Sentence" for Prisoners

We take an in-depth look at the for-profit health care in prison and jails in this country. The New York Times published a series titled “Harsh Medicine” based on a yearlong investigation of Prison Health Services, the nation’s largest for-profit provider of prisoner medical care, that exposes how inadequate care has resulted in death and suicides by prisoners. [includes rush transcript]

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