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Centurion Health Supplants Corizon in Missouri After Court Ruling

Loaded on April 1, 2022 by Keith Sanders published in Prison Legal News April, 2022, page 14
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion. Location: Missouri.

by Keith Sanders

After a trial on November 3, 2021, a Missouri court ruled in favor of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) in a challenge to its decision replacing its private healthcare contractor Corizon with a competitor, Centurion Health.

At stake was a $1.4 billion seven-year contract to provide ...

 

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