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Nashville Tennessean The state of Tennessee will scrap a $123 million contract to provide mental health care in prisons after evidence surfaced that a top state official privately shared internal documents with the winning bidder. The decision was announced Monday, more than a month after The Tennessean first published a news story about private emails between agency's previous chief financial officer, Wes Landers, and the health care giant Centurion. "As promised," Landers wrote in a May 2019 email sharing an internal state procurement document with Centurion leaders. After sharing d...

Centurion and its attorneys did not respond to emails seeking comment on the lawsuit. But in court filings, the state and Centurion forcefully denied allegations in the lawsuit. Centurion attorneys called the lawsuit "legally flawed and factually deficient," and dismissed its central claims as "fiction."  Bond amount 'flummoxed' health care company In the lawsuit, Corizon said the state rigged the requirements of the behavioral health contract so that Centurion would be the only company with the financial resources to get it. Corizon lawyers said the state altered its original bid request...