Maryland to extend contract with troubled prison health provider — again

Maryland officials plan to spend tens of millions of dollars for another contract extension with a troubled prison health provider. The state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is proposing to spend nearly $125 million to continue having YesCare provide medical care to the 20,000 people in state-run jails and prisons through the end of the year. It comes after the state extended the contract three months past the end of the prior contract Dec. 31.