Home State Wide ‘We’re spending millions on prison health care … and we’re not getting any’

‘We’re spending millions on prison health care … and we’re not getting any’

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‘We’re spending millions on prison health care … and we’re not getting any’
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Republican House Corrections Chairwoman Becky Currie of Brookhaven began touring state prisons when she got her committee chair assignment a couple of years ago, and found a disturbing dearth of medical care for inmates. “We’re paying $124 million to a company for health care and they are not doing it and they are keeping the money,” said Currie, who is pushing for reform and been a centerpiece of Mississippi Today’s investigative series on prison health care, Behind Bars, Beyond Care.

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