OM DENNE EPISODE
Jail deaths have surged in almost two dozen US states over the last decade. There have been steady increases in mortality rates involving complications from existing medical conditions.
Jailers often have few resources to treat medical or psychological conditions. So, counties are increasingly hiring for-profit healthcare contractors to fill the medical needs of their inmates.
Contractors like Corizon and NaphCare say they offer premium healthcare but critics allege that these companies cut corners to turn a profit, and point to their records.
"When you combine the profit motive with a literally captive market of unpopular people, it's a recipe for bad outcomes and, often, lethal outcomes," David Fathi of the ACLU National Prison Project says.
Corizon has nearly 200,000 inmates under its care and has been sued more than a thousand times over its quality of care.
In Sick Inside, Fault Lines speaks to the parents of Madaline Pitkin, a woman who died of dehydration in an Oregon jail under the care of Corizon in 2014. In an exclusive interview, a former Corizon employee who worked in that jail, talked about the company's practices that led her to resign.
"I was concerned for my medical license," former Corizon employee Cris Rettler told Fault Lines. "There were several times when we had some pretty near misses."
After Madaline's death, the jail hired another company called NaphCare. We investigate NaphCare's history of negligence in Nevada by speaking with a woman whose husband died of complications with diabetes while in NaphCare's care in 2018.
In both jails, we talk to the sheriffs and ask why they continue to hire these companies. According to campaign finance records, both sheriffs have taken thousands of dollars in political contributions from NaphCare.
Fault Lines investigates the $12bn industry of correctional healthcare and asks what is lost when a county hires a for-profit medical company to care for its prisoners.
- Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe
- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish
- Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera
- Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/
Jailers often have few resources to treat medical or psychological conditions. So, counties are increasingly hiring for-profit healthcare contractors to fill the medical needs of their inmates.
Contractors like Corizon and NaphCare say they offer premium healthcare but critics allege that these companies cut corners to turn a profit, and point to their records.
"When you combine the profit motive with a literally captive market of unpopular people, it's a recipe for bad outcomes and, often, lethal outcomes," David Fathi of the ACLU National Prison Project says.
Corizon has nearly 200,000 inmates under its care and has been sued more than a thousand times over its quality of care.
In Sick Inside, Fault Lines speaks to the parents of Madaline Pitkin, a woman who died of dehydration in an Oregon jail under the care of Corizon in 2014. In an exclusive interview, a former Corizon employee who worked in that jail, talked about the company's practices that led her to resign.
"I was concerned for my medical license," former Corizon employee Cris Rettler told Fault Lines. "There were several times when we had some pretty near misses."
After Madaline's death, the jail hired another company called NaphCare. We investigate NaphCare's history of negligence in Nevada by speaking with a woman whose husband died of complications with diabetes while in NaphCare's care in 2018.
In both jails, we talk to the sheriffs and ask why they continue to hire these companies. According to campaign finance records, both sheriffs have taken thousands of dollars in political contributions from NaphCare.
Fault Lines investigates the $12bn industry of correctional healthcare and asks what is lost when a county hires a for-profit medical company to care for its prisoners.
- Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe
- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish
- Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera
- Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/
Engelsk
USA
UDSKRIFT 🔗
Are you the producer of this podcast?
Add a podcast transcript
Need Audio-to-Text?
Transcribe with Listen411 in Just 60 Seconds
SØG BLANDT TIDLIGERE EPISODER
Søg efter gamle afsnit af Fault Lines.
ANDRE EPISODE I DENNE PODCAST
When the coronavirus pandemic hit the US, nursing homes became ground zero for the coronavirus.
By November, more than 60,000 nursing home residents had died of COVID-19, accounting for roughly a quarter of all fatalities nationwide.
Yet the nursing home industry had already struggled with chroni…
Earlier this year, California officials brought busloads of imprisoned men from a coronavirus hotspot to the overcrowded San Quentin prison.
They had not tested some of the transferred men for COVID-19 for a month.
The bungled transfer sparked one of the country’s worst outbreaks. More than half …
In the United States, Chicago’s Black and Latino residents are far more likely to die from COVID-19 than their white counterparts. It is a pattern seen across the country.
In this deeply segregated city, the virus’s uneven effects mirror existing racial and economic divisions.
Before the pandemic…
After Trump supporters staged the deadly Capitol attack in January, Republicans chose not to hold Trump accountable for his role in the insurrection.
Indeed, many Republicans have continued Trump’s drumbeat of calling the election’s legitimacy into question. State lawmakers across the country have…
As the Democrats take back the White House, what does the 2020 presidential election say about the future of US politics?
Despite Joe Biden’s win, tens of millions of Americans chose Donald Trump for a second term. How the Republican party relates to this bloc of voters - along with the ideology T…
Ansvarsfraskrivelse: Podcasten og kunstværket, der er indlejret på denne side, er fra Al Jazeera English, som tilhører dens ejer og ikke er tilknyttet eller godkendt af Listen Notes, Inc.
REDIG
Tak fordi du hjælper med at holde podcast-databasen opdateret.
