The company that provides health care services to the New Mexico Corrections Department says its contract with the state is not being renewed.
Corizon Correctional Healthcare notified employees this week that the company won't get another four-year contract.
State officials rejected both Corizon and Wexford Health Sources during a six-month bidding contest for the contract. Corizon replaced Wexford in 2007 and both companies have come under scrutiny over the quality of health care services they provided to the state's 7,000 prison inmates.
A Corizon spokeswoman says the company has been honored to provide care for New Mexico's incarcerated for the last nine years.
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