Private care for inmates weighed
Source: By CAROL DeMARE, Albany Times Union (NY), Monday, November 12, 2007
County officials are contemplating hiring an outside company to run the mental health unit at the jail, partly because of the suicides of three inmates in the last two years.
Tentative plans call for privatizing the unit within the next six months, even before a new $13 million annex is built at Albany County Correctional Facility on Albany Shaker Road to house 80 to 100 mentally ill inmates.