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“Damning” Audit Sharply Criticizes Corizon in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Loaded on March 4, 2015
by Greg Dober
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2015, page 30
Filed under:
Corizon,
Contractor Misconduct,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Private Contractors.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
“Damning” Audit Sharply Criticizes Corizon in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
by Gregory Dober
In December 2014, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Controller Chelsa Wagner released an audit report on Corizon Health’s compliance with its contract to provide medical care at the county jail in Pittsburgh.
The audit cited 14 areas in which the ...
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