A whistleblower lawsuit that has been hidden from public view for nearly three years claims a private contractor paid hundreds of millions of dollars to provide healthcare to prisoners in Delaware covered up deficiencies in care that neglected, maimed, and caused undue suffering to people imprisoned by the state.
Now, Delaware's Attorney General is joining that whistleblower lawsuit against the state's former prison healthcare provider, according to recently unsealed court filings.
Centurion was paid some $200 million by the state over three years to provide primary healthcare and mental health services to more than 4,000 prisoners in Delaware ending in 2023. At the time, Centurion was a subsidiary of Centene Corp, a Fortune 25 company and the nation's largest insurer for the country's Medicaid program.
Both companies are named as defendants and did not reply to multiple requests for comment through their media and investor teams as well as legal counsel over multiple days.
The lawsuit accuses the business of falsifying records, propping up mental health programs they knew were accomplishing nothing, funneling prisoners toward addiction to and covering-up staffing shortages in a way that denied prisoners adequate healthcare.
"It needs to change," said Christopher Craig, a prisoner at Howard R. Young Correctional Institution who has spent 31 years in Delaware lockup. "It has gotten worse and it needs to be fixed."
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