Advocacy Groups Don't Want GEO to Run State Hospital
A coalition of influential Texas organizations is pushing back against the proposed privatization of a state psychiatric hospital by GEO Care, a subsidiary of a prison operations group that has a troubled history in Texas.
The Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is preparing to privatize one of the state hospitals it oversees, a move estimated to save taxpayers millions of dollars a year.
Members of the coalition, concerned by the fact that GEO Care was the only bidder to operate the hospital, are urging DSHS, the Legislative Budget Board, and Gov. Rick Perry to reject the company's proposed ...
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Julia Gregory Poirier via Texas Tribune on Facebook
THAT is some messed up logic.
A. Bryant
It does not work in prison where they see a Psychiatrist for 5 minutes during a 6 month period. They ask how they are doing on their medications and few of them even understand what is going on. They do not give them the real medications they need but substitutes that cost pennys and the patient gets that value...nothing. Prison for psychiatric patients is not a Correctional Department...it is a Warehouse!
Lance Lowry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The "Gee Oh Group" is one of the most incompetent companies in the world... Their interest is pure profit and they cut corners, endangering people's life to make a profit and undercut government operations. If Rick Perry wants The Geo Group to run something in Texas, they should take over the Governor's security detail and fire all those DPS Troopers at the state capital replacing them with "The Gee Oh Group" guards. I bet the legislature would feel really safe with "The Gee Oh Group" protecting them
Adele Roberson
Republican stampede to privatize every public entity in this state.
Our taxpayer money will go to these privately owned oganizations never to be accounted for and nothing but ninety percent profit to the owners.
Texans can never connect the dots.. too stupid or unconcerned. Whatever..
Harold Jefferson
Yes this makes no sense to entrust our families to these people who have a terrible record. What we are forgetting here is our son’s daughter’s mother’s fathers may need mental health care.
We all ways hear how these things are going to save money. I would rather my tax dollars be spent on mental health not curtains for the governor’s mansion.
Pablo Paez, vice president of corporate relations for the GEO Group, said “To judge a company’s record on isolated events is grossly unfair,”
What is unfair is handing our most venerable people over to people who clearly don’t value them or their right to be in a safe place.