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Who’s Monitoring Prison Medical Contract Requirements in New Jersey? No One
Loaded on March 15, 2008
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2008, page 32
Who's Monitoring Prison Medical Contract Requirements in New Jersey? No One
Filed under:
CMS,
Contractor Misconduct,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Dental Care,
Medical Records,
Conditions of Confinement,
Staffing.
Location:
New Jersey.
by David Reutter
PLN subscribers often read reports about the effects of privatized prisoner health care and the spread of privatization to prison and jail systems throughout the nation. These real-life stories of prisoner deaths, maimings and suffering occur ...
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
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- Georgia’s Prison Health System Squeezed by Increasing Population, Decreasing Staff Budget, by David Reutter
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