Correctional health care provider again destroys evidence in a wrongful death case

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Correctional health care provider again destroys evidence in a wrongful death case

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Published on Oct 7, 2024, 1:11:37 PM
Total time: 00:10:09

Episode Description

For a third time, a federal judge has ruled that Wellpath — one of the nation’s largest for-profit providers of health care to people in prisons and jails — wrongfully deleted emails connected to in-custody deaths.  Wellpath operates in at least 10 correctional facilities in Oregon and Washington, and has purged email evidence in at least three wrongful death cases in the Pacific Northwest. Criminal justice reporter Conrad Wilson joins us to discuss the cases.

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