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George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware County. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Delaware County’s Jail Oversight Board has unanimously decided to seek proposals for medical, food service, maintenance, information systems, and commissary services at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility — a major step toward deprivatizing the prison.
“I think hiring the consultants was certainly a step, but by RFP-ing out certain portions of the management of the prison, we’re taking the real first sort of physical step toward deprivatizing or, I should say, moving away from GEO services,” said County Councilmember Kevin Madden, who also chairs the oversight board.