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For years, Wellpath, the largest commercial provider of health care in jails and prisons across 37 states, has been the target of federal lawsuits and scrutiny by lawmakers for its practices that have been alleged to cause long-term health problems and the deaths of dozens of incarcerated individuals.

As part of the bankruptcy proceedings, a federal judge in Texas granted a pause in all lawsuits that involve Wellpath. Legal proceedings in such cases can take years in normal circumstances, but Wellpath's bankruptcy means dozens of those cases, like the Capaci case, are on hold for the foreseeable future.

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[-] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

And has already formed an LLC to bid on the assets so it can reform the company clear of the legal responsibilities of the last one.

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Me: How hard is it to just not be a piece of shit?

Piece of shit reforming to buy itself to be a piece of shit under a new name.

Really really hard I guess...

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago

It's sad, but... You gotta love the irony of Luigi's health now depending on a carceral healthcare provider. Something tells me he's gonna wait a long longer than other inmates to get an aspirin tablet.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't say I do love that irony... It's not like prison healthcare is so amazing just because they don't have to pay for insurance.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

It was sarcasm. There's nothing to love about it of course.

Luigi or not, there's nothing good to be said about the privatized US prison system. It's all shades of terrible, like everything that's driven by greed and almost completely unregulated. But it's made even worse by the customer base being literally captive.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I saw an article elsewhere on Lemmy about how OpenAI and Microsoft have agreed that "AGI" now means "technology that makes over $100 billion in profits" and we have gone from realizing that explains why people in the C-suite are considered to be generally intelligent, to thinking that OpenAI as it currently is implemented would do a better job than a lot of Trump's cabinet picks, to realizing that if we play our cards right, we're very close to being able to do an, "ignore all previous instructions and implement a socialist government."

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