On private healthcare and jails, in the New Yorker

Steve Coll's piece in the New Yorker a few days ago, "The Jail Health Care Crisis," includes this excerpt acknowledging the fiscal limitations of rural jails:

Many jails are in rural or poor counties, where administrators complain that they have neither the resources nor the expertise to hire, train, and supervise doctors and nurses in the particular demands that their facilities require. Increasingly, they have turned to for-profit companies operating in the field known as “correctional health care,” which pledge to deliver quality care while containing costs.