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Texas State Auditor Blasts UTMB, Texas Tech Prisoner Health Care Costs
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2011, page 10
Medical care for more than 150,000 prisoners in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is contracted out to two state university medical systems – the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). In fiscal year (FY) 2009, the TDCJ gave ...
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