{"id":39982,"date":"2015-06-27T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=39982"},"modified":"2015-06-27T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T20:26:03","slug":"why-new-york-dropped-corizon-from-overseeing-health-care-at-rikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/why-new-york-dropped-corizon-from-overseeing-health-care-at-rikers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why New York Dropped Corizon From Overseeing Health Care At Rikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"post-deck\" data-remote=\"post:424:deck\">It\u2019s not just the big profits and dead inmates.<\/h4>\n<p data-hash=\"0e4289\"><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rikers_island_jail_prison_300x300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-39984 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rikers_island_jail_prison_300x300-150x150.png\" alt=\"rikers_island_jail_prison_300x300\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rikers_island_jail_prison_300x300-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rikers_island_jail_prison_300x300-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rikers_island_jail_prison_300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rikers_island_jail_prison_300x300-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>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\u2019s 15-year relationship with Corizon, the country\u2019s largest private contractor of medical services to jails and prisons. HHC will take over a three-year $126.6 million contract.<\/p>\n<p data-hash=\"17891b\">The end of the Corizon deal, announced Wednesday, was accompanied by a scathing report from the city\u2019s 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\u2019s conviction that basic public services should not be entrusted to for-profit contractors.<\/p>\n<p data-hash=\"17891b\">For The Complete Article Go To:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2015\/06\/11\/why-new-york-dropped-corizon\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2015\/06\/11\/why-new-york-dropped-corizon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 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\u2019s 15-year relationship with Corizon, the country\u2019s largest private contractor of medical services to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-events-sports-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}