A Snapshot Of Contracting In The Corrections Health Care Market

A few days ago, I was reading in The Washington Post that the four-decade rise of incarceration in the U.S. has left us with the world’s highest incarceration rate, while leading to more prisons than degree-granting colleges and universities in the country (see The U.S. Has More Jails Than Colleges. Here’s A Map Of Where Those Prisoners Live). Unfortunately, the corrections market in the U.S. is a robust market.

As a country, we have one of the highest percentages for population incarcerated – an estimated 6,899,000 people were under adult correctional system . . .