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Public defender warns jail health contract may leave seriously ill detainees without hospital access; county to review RFP responses
Summary
A member of Hudson County's Public Defender's Office said three suicides occurred at the county jail this year and urged commissioners to require jail-health providers with hospital access; county officials said they received two RFP responses and will review them before awarding the contract.
Amy Albert of the Hudson County Public Defender's Office told commissioners Wednesday that she is seeing rising safety and medical concerns among people jailed in Hudson County, and urged a careful review of the county's request for proposals for jail health services.
"There have been, unfortunately, three suicides completed at the jail this year," Albert told the board. She said mentally ill detainees have waited months for forensic hospital placement, that some inmates with severe mental-health and medical needs remain in custody while…
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