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Correct Rx a New Major Player in the Prison Drug Industry
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2007
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2007, page 20
Pharmaceutical drug distributors have found a future and a fortune in our nation?s prison system. Record rates of incarceration equal record profits for drug companies.
Filed under:
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Prison Health Services,
Correct Rx,
Medical,
Medication.
Location:
United States of America.
One enterprising pharmacist has made herself a major player in the drug distribution industry. With an idea that literally was created at her kitchen table …
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