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Immigration Detention Center Contractor Sues Over California Health Inspections

KFF Health News

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strike down a state law allowing local public health officials to inspect immigration detention facilities. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

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Immigration detention center contractor sues over California health inspections

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strike down a state law allowing local public health officials to inspect immigration detention facilities.

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What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

NC Health News

Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.

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Four key takeaways as Trump’s sweeping HHS layoffs begin

The Hill

Thousands of employees across the vast Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began receiving layoff notices as early as 5 a.m. Entire divisions were axed across multiple agencies, including much of the Food and Drug Administrations communications and media affairs staff. on Tuesday. Kennedy Jr.