This category includes the main corporate actors in the U.S. prison healthcare industry, focusing on companies that provide direct healthcare services to prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers. This primarily includes companies that employ medical staff that directly interact with people who are incarcerated, as well as companies that provide medical transportation services, in which medical staff act as prison guards, and companies that provide behavioral health programs, case management services, and more.
This industry is dominated by a handful of privately held companies, an increasing number of which are owned by private equity firms.
Many other companies, including some that are publicly traded but that are not included here, provide prisons with other healthcare services, such as diagnostic testing and screening, pharmacy services, and medical and lab equipment.
For our 2018 report on the prison healthcare industry, see here.