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Article: Prison health care: New York Times series brings attention.
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- AIDS Treatment News
- Article date:
- February 25, 2005
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On February 27 through March 1 The New York Times published an excellent "Harsh Medicine" series on prison health care, based on more than a year of research [1]. It focused on Prison Health Services, the largest for-profit prison medical company, though the problems are similar with other private and public prison health as well. A March 10 New York Times editorial [2] noted, "The root problem is that the country has tacitly decided to starve the prison system of medical care ..."
Prison Health Services, with contracts in 28 states, is responsible for the medical care of about ten percent of the 2.1 million persons incarcerated in the U.S.--which now has a ...