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Maryland Extends Contract with YesCare Despite Bankruptcy of Predecessor Corizon Health
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2024, page 60
Filed under:
Private Contractors.
Location:
Maryland.
For-profit prison healthcare contractor Corizon Health had a sordid reputation even before it attempted a legal maneuver known as the “Texas Two-Step,” using that state’s laws to put its valuable assets in a new company called YesCare and creating a second company called Tehum Care Services to assume its …
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