😽 Keepin’ It Simple Summary for Younger Readers👧🏾✊🏾👦🏾
The day before Pima County supervisors voted on a $53.7 million jail healthcare contract 💸, Supervisor Andrés Cano was partying 🎉 in Salt Lake City with Dr. Ravi Shah— the physician who stands to make $400,000 annually 💵 from that very contract. County Attorney Sam Brown saw no conflict of interest 🤷♂️.
The next day, every supervisor voted yes ✅, including self-proclaimed progressives Matt Heinz and Jennifer Allen, who spent the meeting explaining why privatized prison healthcare leads to preventable deaths 💔.
NaphCare, the company receiving the contract, has been hit with massive wrongful death verdicts ⚖️ in other states, and Pima County Jail has one of the highest mortality rates in America ⚰️…