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Illinois prison officials are standing by their recent decision to award a new $4 billion contract to the state’s troubled prison health care provider, despite a new report filed in federal court that describes preventable deaths, poor care and neglect inside state prisons. The report found that half the medical positions the company is responsible for providing in the prisons are unfilled, and a review of 107 inmate deaths found nearly 900 issues with how patients and cases were handled.
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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I wonder if this company will be soon providing medical care to those on the public dole?
what are the factors that contractors face in Illinois where they only get TWO bidders, and really only one bidder the state doesn’t like but is forced to go with, would seem the big question?