Column: There’s always an answer, but not always the right one – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "Illinois has recently awarded a $4 billion, multi-year contract to a Pennsylvania firm to provide medical services to prison inmates...It’s a rare prison that provides a warm, welcoming and nurturing working environment for medical professionals who have multiple employment options. So what’s Wexford to do when even generous pay is not a sufficient incentive to draw applicants? What Illinois and Wexford have done — and probably will continue to do — is the best that it can under the sorry circumstances, knowing that it won’t be enough and that criticism and lawsuits will continue."