Report: Prison health care still lags / Monitor says unstable medical vendor harming DOC efforts
Source: By LEE WILLIAMS and ESTEBAN PARRA, The News Journal (DE) July 30, 2008
Continued poor performance by the Department of Correction's medical vendor is harming the department's efforts to get out from under supervision by the U.S. Justice Department, according to the third report by the independent monitor overseeing the state prison system.
Correctional Medical Services, a private company Delaware is paying $39 million this 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 221-page report released Tuesday.