Timeline of prison troubles / Problems brought to light in 2005 series in The News Journal
Source: The News Journal (DE), Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 4:23 pm
For six months in 2005, The News Journal examined conditions of care within the state's prisons. In late September 2005, the newspaper published a series of stories highlighting AIDS-related inmate deaths and suicides over the past four years; allegations by inmates of poor medical treatment for cancer, meningitis and hepatitis; and a no-bid $25.9 million contract awarded to St. Louis-based Correctional Medical Services to manage health care in the state's prisons.