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Article: Private prison care blasted Audit faults staffing, unlicensed clinics in state
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- June 14, 2005
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DENVER - Two Colorado inmates died last year because their
prescription medications were changed by unlicensed medical clinics
in private prisons, according to a stinging audit that charged the
state with lax oversight of an out-of-control private prison system.
The Colorado Department of Corrections houses about 2,800 of its
18,000 inmates in six private prisons. Five are in Colorado, and one
is in Missouri. It cost taxpayers $53 mil-lion in 2004.
An audit of those prisons released Monday found numerous problems:
inadequate staffing levels, unlicensed medical clinics, employees
with criminal backgrounds, poor food services and more.
The audit laid much of the fault with the state ...