Illinois taxpayers are paying a private healthcare company more than $1.3 billion over ten years to provide care for inmates in prisons. But most of the inmates Illinois Public Radio's Robert Wildeboer has talked to say, unless it’s an emergency, they’re not getting the care taxpayers have already paid for.
And the State of Illinois doesn’t seem to have any mechanism to ensure that taxpayers aren’t being fleeced in the health care deal. Robert Wildeboer has the latest in our Illinois Prisons series.
