Ten weeks before Corizon Health abruptly canceled its $1.2 billion contract to treat Florida prison inmates, yet another account of lethal care by the Tennessee-based company landed on Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones’ desk.
At Florida Women’s Reception Center in Ocala, inspectors found, a woman with diabetes went almost three months without insulin. One inmate with a golf ball-sized lump behind her ear was referred for an MRI and a surgical consult. She got neither
Psychiatric care was similarly disturbing. Inmates at risk of self-harm can be held only in certain types of isolation cells for 72 hours. But one woman spent four days in a cell, another spent five days and yet another spent six.