In this special report from Grassroots Leadership, an OSI grantee, Senior Research Fellow Marguerite Rosenthal looks at privatized prison health services in South Carolina. The report follows the findings of the South Carolina General Assembly’s Legislative Audit Council’s report, A Review of the Medical Services at the SC Department of Corrections.

The state audit found numerous incidents of inadequate provision of medication, no discharge planning for the mentally ill, inadequately trained staff, and lax monitoring. Rosenthal draws on the findings of the state audit to tell the story of how privatized prison health care has failed in South Carolina and throughout the United States, uncovering the hidden costs, lawsuits, and medical abuses of privatized prison health care.