Mississippi Today’s ‘Behind Bars, Beyond Care’ uncovered allegations of widespread and routine denial of health care in Mississippi’s prisons. The series documented potentially thousands of people living with hepatitis C going without treatment, an untreated broken arm that resulted in amputation and delayed cancer screenings one woman said led to her terminal diagnosis. One ex-corrections leadertold Mississippi Today people are experiencing widespread medical neglect in the state’s prisons, and revealed internal communications between department officials lamenting the quality of care provided by VitalCore, the company paid hundreds of millions of dollars by the state to provide health care to people in prison.
