 In this case, the HIV unit was rat-infested, with broken windows covered in plastic.There is also a trend towards privatizing health care by hiring outside, for-profit health care companies to provide medical care to inmates.According to a 1996 survey by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), forty-four state Departments of Corrections contract out at least some of their medical care to private vendors - in 1996 this amounted to $706 million.