Special Report: Lost Opportunities for Savings within California Prison Pharmacies
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Mar. 31, 2011
ANNOTATION: Findings and recommendations regarding the following are presented: usable medications are not being restocked; the use of approved medications is not being ensured; prison pharmacy computer inventories are unreliable; and the handling of medications for inmates transferring between prisons is inconsistent. Other agencies should read this report in order to evaluate potential problems in the provision of medications to their own inmate population and see how California intends to address these shortfalls. California’s Prison Health Care Services provide responses to this report explaining their strategies for dealing with these problems. Comment from the California’s Office of the Inspector General follow. There was a loss to California’s taxpayers of nearly $12-26 million.
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