Via~~Gelly Bean posted to Stopping Inmate Cruelty Meet the Company Making $1.4 Billion a Year off Sick Prisoners By Jesse Lava, Campaign Director, Beyond Bars & Sarah Solon, Communications Strategist, ACLU at 4:32pm Frankie Bartons son has Hepatitis C. Its treatable, but she says the for-profit Corizon Prison Health Management has skimped on giving him the proper treatment while hes incarcerated. If he goes without care, hell develop sclerosis of the liver—a condition that can lead to death. Frankies son isnt unique. He represents Corizons business model: less care, higher profits. People get sicker, Corizon makes more. And somehow its attracting new customers. Just last week, Corizon inked a five-year, $1.2 billion contract with the state of Florida. This means that Corizon is now getting taxpayer money in 29 states. And theyre vying for more. Corizon has been sued 660 times for malpractice over the last half-decade. As Corizon nurse Diane Jackson said, We save money by skipping the ambulance and taking prisoners directly to the morgue. Thats one of the ways they generate an estimated $1.4 billion every year. As long as Corizon is motivated by its bottom line rather than the health of prisoners, there will always be a perverse incentive to not provide treatment. Corizon is just one of the many powerful companies getting rich off mass incarceration. Our Prison Profiteers video series exposes the abusive institutions rigging the U.S. criminal justice system. Corizon and other profiteers should not be able to get away with this. They need to know were watching. Join our fight against at PrisonProfiteers.org. https://aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/meet-company-making-14-billion-year-sick-prisoners
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 02:59:52 +0000