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Medical provider cancels Vermont prison contract

Source: By Shay Totten, Vermont Guardian, November 3, 2006


WATERBURY — After losing more than $1 million in three months, the out-of-state company in charge of providing medical services to Vermont’s nearly 1,700 inmates has told corrections officials it wants out of its three-year contract.

The state and Prison Health Services have been at the bargaining table for the past four months, but hit an impasse Monday, company officials said, and gave the state three months notice that it would not finish the last year of its contract.