Tag: Corizon

Peter SchorschNovember 23, 2016
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Four months after taking over health care duties for inmates in the state’s Department of Corrections, Centurion of Florida, LLC is showing marked improvements over its predecessor. The company has added more than 500 new staff members, a nearly 15 percent increase, and has almost entirely snuffed out the use of temporary physicians, resulting in […]

Jim RosicaApril 13, 2016
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2min216
A contract worth over $260 million for health care at the state’s prisons will stand after an administrative law judge sided with the Department of Corrections. Wexford Health Sources had challenged the contract for prison health care in north and central Florida awarded to Centurion of Florida. Centurion wanted to replace Corizon, the current vendor, […]

Phil AmmannApril 5, 2016
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3min239
A state auditor general’s report found Florida’s Department of Corrections failed to enforce monitoring provisions outlined in contracts with private health care providers. According to LobbyTools, the supervisory failure resulted in the state incurring more than $1 million in additional costs by undercharging vendors. The DOC “did not timely conduct monitoring of inmate health care […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 16, 2016
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In a pivotal scene from the vastly underrated movie “Heat,” the cop-and-robber characters portrayed by Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro go rat-a-tat-tat with each other over why certain men commit crimes. The robbery-homicide detective portrayed by Pacino cannot help but admire the discipline of the highline burglar found in DeNiro’s Neil McCauley character, yet he doesn’t really understand […]

Mitch PerryDecember 1, 2015
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6min197
If you don’t know of anyone who is caught up in the Florida corrections system, stories about the care of prisoners may not matter much to you at all. But they have been disturbing, particularly regarding the state of health care for those who incarcerated. Rick Scott ran for office in 2010 promising to privatize […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 23, 2015

5min139
On Friday, Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones announced that the five-year contracts with private health care providers Corizon and Wexford Health Sources will be canceled and renegotiated, in response to the overwhelming evidence of poor care that those providers have been giving to inmates in Florida state prisons, including a decade high number of […]


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