An office inside a county jail
Posters for YesCare and Corizon are on display at the Doña Ana Detention Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico, which contracted out its health care services to the companies.
  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren has criticized Corizon successor company YesCare for its opaque corporate structure.
  • Newly obtained documents show YesCare agreed to send millions of dollars to companies controlled by insiders.
  • Experts say the "unusual" corporate structure appears designed to divert profits and evade accountability.

One of the nation's largest providers of healthcare to prisoners was set up as an elaborate corporate shell game, according to newly unsealed and previously unreported court records. Experts said the highly unusual structure appears to have been designed to siphon off profits to opaque investors and evade accountability over allegations of substandard healthcare.