Florida’s prison healthcare scandal

Published September 7, 2022 12:00am ET



Privatizing the Florida Department of Corrections’s various prison services has long meant good business.

Overcharging for telephone calls, messages across platforms such as JPay, and allowing vendors to raise the cost of food items sold in the institutional canteens 10% every six months were easy ways for businesses to make money. Still, these financial abuses pale in comparison to the effects that privatized healthcare has had on inmate populations.

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