WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | Report advises against privatization of prison health care in SC
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(Columbia-AP) April 12, 2004 - A report released Monday says the Palmetto State already failed at privatizing health care in prisons and should not try again. The report's release comes as the Department of Corrections wraps up a bid process to do just that.
The state's prisons used a private contractor for more than a decade for health care, but that practice stopped in 2000. A Legislative Audit Council report had been sharply critical of how the work was done and monitored.
Si Kahn, the executive director of Grassroots Leadership in Charlotte, says if privatization did not work a few years ago it will not- work now.
Governor Mark Sanford began pushing privatization last summer. His office and prison director Jon Ozmint did not immediately respond to the report.
House Republican Leader Rick Quinn of Columbia says he wants to halt this privatization effort. He says those efforts just don't work well in prisons.
posted 2:37pm by Chris Rees
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