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New Health Care Provider Picked for Oregon Jail after Audit Criticizes Corizon

Loaded on Nov. 30, 2015 by Mark Wilson published in Prison Legal News December, 2015, page 22
Filed under: Naphcare, Corizon, Corrections Audits, Medication, Private Contractors, Eighth Amendment. Location: Oregon.

New Health Care Provider Picked for Oregon Jail after Audit Criticizes Corizon

by Mark Wilson

A Birmingham, Alabama health care company has taken over medical care at the Washington County jail in Hillsboro, Oregon in the wake of a scathing audit that led county officials to terminate a contract with ...

 

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