House OKs privatization option for prison health care - Austin American-Statesman

  • By zz-omni-cms
  • June 17, 2011


A bill to start charging Texas prison convicts up to $100 a year for their medical care sparked the latest skirmish over a continuing push to allow private companies to provide medical care in the state's 112 prisons.

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Under current law, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center provide health care in prisons, but mushrooming costs have drawn criticism from legislative leaders.

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