
From fatal negligence to a new $33 million contract
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The Victorian Government's Review and Implementation Strategy for Implementing the 339 Recommendations of the Royal Commission
The Victorian government had commissioned an expert review and they were calling it a cultural review of the prison system. And one of the recommendations from that was in terms of healthcare and it was calling on them to bring healthcare for all prisons back into public hands. In January of this year they announced that healthcare in the women's prisons in Victoria would be taken back into public Hands. But about at the same time early this year it was announced that a different US company was going to be responsible for delivering healthcare and all male public prisons in Victoria which does account for 95% of the prison population. So they basically did the exact opposite. They also announced that correct care the company in question won't have their


