Lawmakers chafe as push continues to privatize prison health care - Austin American-Statesman
Efforts by private companies to get a piece of Texas' nearly $1 billion prisoner health
care system are quietly continuing behind the scenes as company representatives make
sales pitches to lawmakers and seek changes in state law to authorize privatization.
... Under current law, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center are in charge of providing health care to Texas' 154,000 imprisoned felons.... Read the full story >> |
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