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State hires outside group to inspect prisonsINDIANAPOLIS (AP) —Hoping to quell a controversy over the accuracy of such surveys, state correctional officials have hired an independent agency to evaluate Indiana’s compliance with laws and standards regulating health care for its nearly 16,000 inmates.The Chicago-based National Commission on Correctional Health Care will start next month inspecting prisoner health programs at the state’s 32 detention facilities under a $150,000, one-year contract.Meanwhile, state Department of Health officials have suspended their own prison inspections, which had been the subject ofgrowing controversy.“The state should benefit from having an independentbody telling them how they're doing against the nationally accepted standards,'* said Kdward A. Harrison, president of the national commission, created to improve medical care for jailed inmates nationwide.For years, officials of the Department of Correction and Department of Health have quarreled over state health reports of prison violations.Though new State Health Commissioner Richard D. Feldman tried to smooth relations and build interagency consensus last year, state health inspectors began to question their own agency’s commitment to overseeing prison health care.Last year, a retarded inmate died after a prison doctor refused him access to emergency dialysis.
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Mon, Apr 20, 1998
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