Selling drugs to prisons is hot business model
Source: By M. William Salganik, Baltimore Sun, July 14, 2006
....... Working at her kitchen table, she and two partners, all pharmacists, put together a business plan for Correct Rx Pharmacy Services, a name chosen to represent both accuracy in filling orders and a target market of correctional facilities.
...... In the beginning, "We focused most of our marketing on the correctional market," she said. Correct Rx's largest customer, and one of its first, is the GEO Group Inc., a private company that manages and provides medical services to prisons. GEO manages prisons in 16 states with some 43,000 beds.