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Robotic Medicine Dispensers Pillage Jails Cost Savings

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2006 by John Dannenberg published in Prison Legal News December, 2006, page 25
Filed under: Medical, Medication, Staffing. Location: California.

Robotic Medicine Dispensers Pillage Jail's Cost Savings

by John E. Dannenberg

ROBOT, a $1 million automatic pill dispensing system installed at the Contra Costa County (California) jails in February 2005 and advertised to save the county $240,000, has so far instead cost the county $60,000 in overtime pay for people ...

 

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