It’s not just the big profits and dead inmates.
Starting next year, the New York City agency that runs its public hospitals, Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), will assume responsibility for health care at the Rikers Island jail complex, ending the island’s 15-year relationship with Corizon, the country’s largest private contractor of medical services to jails and prisons. HHC will take over a three-year $126.6 million contract.
The end of the Corizon deal, announced Wednesday, was accompanied by a scathing report from the city’s Department of Investigation, which cited poor oversight, disciplinary problems and neglect that may have led to the death of two inmates. It also reflected Mayor Bill de Blasio’s conviction that basic public services should not be entrusted to for-profit contractors.
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