Bid to extend jail health service contract meets resistance
Source: By DEBORAH CIRCELLI, News Journal (FL), May 03, 2008
DAYTONA BEACH -- The county jail is not physically equipped to deal with the ever-increasing number of inmates with mental illnesses and changes are needed, Volusia County Manager Jim Dineen and County Corrections Director Marilyn Chandler Ford said Friday.
But Dineen said making improvements is "not a quick fix." He's leaning toward a recommendation that the County Council extend for a year its jail health care contract with Prison Health Services. The contract expires Sept. 30.
...... Prison Health Services faces lawsuits locally and nationally by inmates claiming they didn't receive proper medications and treatment. The current psychiatrist, Dr. David Hager, is leaving this month to take a job out of state.