The medical provider for the Orleans Parish jail has failed to hire enough qualified staff, falsified logs of welfare checks for suicidal inmates and allowed the most at-risk inmates with mental illness to languish for weeks without the care they need. ⁠ ⁠ In their reports to U.S. District Judge Lance Africk, the half-dozen monitors praised Sheriff Susan Hutson’s cooperation with their work, though they gave low marks to the jail’s inmate monitoring and a “sharp decline” in the quality of internal investigations.⁠ ⁠ The assessment of Wellpath, the private equity-owned company that has held the jail’s huge healthcare contract for almost a decade, was far more critical.⁠ ⁠ Read more about the jail's failed healthcare using the link in our bio. ⁠ ⁠ #inmatesupport #news