Unhealthy Legacy
Source: By Dave Maass, Santa Fe Reporter (NM), September 26, 2007
Over the last year, whistle-blowers have come forward, auditors have released findings, legislative committees have convened. All concluded that Wexford Health Sources Inc., the private company that secured an exclusive contract in 2004 to provide health care to New Mexico inmates, cut corners at the cost of prisoners' well being.
Last year, SFR published an award-winning 15-part series focusing on health care professionals' allegations about the care in the prisons "The Wexford files."
Although Wexford's contract expired on June 30, 2007, inmates are now filing handwritten civil suits leveled at Wexford, the State of New Mexico and its private-prison contractor, the GEO Group.