State officials are awaiting a judge’s ruling in their suit seeking an end to the federal receivership overseeing state prison health care and its construction program.

That program includes plans to build a large new prison hospital in Chino, which local officials and residents have opposed.

The attorney general, on behalf of the governor and the state Department of Corrections, filed a motion in U.S. District Court last week asking a court to remove the receiver who has “simply gone too far” in proposing expensive changes to the system…

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