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Tennessee lawmakers are demanding answers about the deadly Meningitis outbreak that killed 32 people. Senator Lamar Alexander this week convened hearings on the outbreak to get answers from state and federal regulators. FOX17's Erika Lathon is in Washington, D.C. for the hearings. Experts who testified on Thursday say NECC, the compounding pharmacy responsible for the Meningitis outbreak, was allowed to operate with little oversight for over a decade, and that the deaths caused by their tainted drugs could and should have been prevented. Members of the CDC, the FDA and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health testified during this week's Congressional hearings. Pharmacy experts say NECC did not have prescriptions for the drugs they were compounding, instead they were mixing large quantities of drugs and selling them without the required manufacturers license. Officials say the company had a history of problems and should have been shut down long before the Meningitis outbreak.
"NECC was breaking the law in Tennessee, in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, in New York, all of which prohibit their behavior, but they were still doing it," says CEO of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacy David Miller.
Senator Lamar Alexander says Congress will pass new laws to strengthen oversight for compounding pharmacies. The FDA says it needs more resources and clearer guidelines to do better monitoring companies like NECC.
"NECC was breaking the law in Tennessee, in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, in New York, all of which prohibit their behavior, but they were still doing it," says CEO of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacy David Miller.
Senator Lamar Alexander says Congress will pass new laws to strengthen oversight for compounding pharmacies. The FDA says it needs more resources and clearer guidelines to do better monitoring companies like NECC.
Thursday, November 15 2012, 10:06 PM CST
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Miss. chooses new firm to run Woodville prison
May 18, 2013 20:50 GMT
WOODVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi officials have picked a new company to run the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility.
Utah-based Management and Training Corp. announced Friday that the Mississippi Department of Corrections has chosen it to run the 1,000-bed prison starting July 1, the Natchez Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/10MvOGv).
Corrections Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tenn., had run the prison since 1998. MTC says it will keep "the vast majority" of employees.
MTC will get a five-year contract to run the prison with two one-year options. Last year, officials chose MTC to take over East Mississippi Correctional Facility, the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility and the Marshall County Correctional Facility from the GEO Group. MTC won 10-year contracts for each.
CCA still runs the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility and the Adams County Correctional Center in Mississippi.
Information from: The Natchez Democrat, http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/
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