Prison health care lagging / Monitor's report cites continuing problems
Source: By LEE WILLIAMS and ESTEBAN PARRA, The News Journal (DE), Friday, February 1, 2008
Continued poor performance by the Department of Correction's medical vendor could hamper the department's efforts to get out from under supervision by the U.S. Justice Department, according to a new report by an independent monitor overseeing the state prison system.
Correctional Medical Services, a private company Delaware pays millions of dollars a year to provide medical care to inmates, suffers from a "lack of stable and effective leadership," independent monitor Joshua W. Martin III wrote in a 229-page report released Thursday.