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Corrections department worries about health care costs

?Virginia’s prison system faces a $45 million shortfall in inmate health care through next year, even as the corrections department bears the brunt of the latest round of cuts in the two-year state budget. The shortfall emerged this year after a private company that had provided health care to inmates at 17 prisons in hard-to-serve areas ended its contract with the state at the end of September, according to Department of Corrections Director Harold Clarke in a presentation Monday to the House Appropriations Committee. [read the full story here]

Roanoke Times, Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Tags: Health & Medical Issues, Virginia
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