Florida Gives Huge Contracts To Prison Health Care Providers Plagued By Lawsuits

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The Florida Department of Corrections awarded two massive contracts to a pair of private health care providers to serve the state's prisoners. Both companies have been besieged by medical malpractice lawsuits, according to a report in the Broward Bulldog.

Corizon Prison Health Management inked a five-year, $1.2 billion deal and Wexford Health Sources scored a $240 million contract for the same time period, according to the Bulldog.

The non-profit news site reports that Corizon has been sued 660 times for malpractice over the last half-decade.

Wexford faced 1,092 malpractice claims — "suits, notices of intent to sue and letters from aggrieved inmates" — between 2008 and 2012, according to the report.