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Philip Andrews is an executive of SMJ Medical Services, a private HMO company supposed to be specialized in treatment of inmates with clinical and psychological illnesses. Instead, Andrews evaluated which patients would take money he wanted to keep for himself and rejected their healthcare. If the patients didn't die from lack of treatment, they were released eventually to be in danger or pose a danger in the free world.

When psychotic inmate Brian Gallant attacked one woman and killed another after his psychiatric care was denied and he was released without any follow-up the widower of the woman he murdered demanded answers. The trail led to Andrews, who denied all culpability at first, but he was charged with manslaughter. At the trial, after damning witness testimony, particularly the doctor he fired for crusading for the patients, he testified. The jury acquitted him of manslaughter but not criminally negligent homicide. After he was convicted, he would serve his sentence at Rikers, where his company ironically presided in their authority. (L&O: "Turnstile Justice")

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