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PA: Free health care is out for prisoners in Fayette Co. Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Co-pays set for Fayette inmates By Rich Cholodofsky, TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, November 18, 2010 Free health care is out for inmates at the Fayette County Prison. Inmates who want to see a doctor or nurse will be required to make a $15 co-payment. The prison board on Wednesday approved the new fee, along with a $20 booking and processing fee. The co-payments for doctor visits will put Fayette County in line with a program in place for inmates in the state corrections system. Inmates in state prisons pay $5 for each routine visit to a doctor or nurse. "The inmates were abusing their medical privileges, and this eliminated overcrowding in the medical units," said Sue Bensinger, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. State inmates who cannot cover the co-payments are not excluded from medical care...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).