June 1, 2009
Editorial: “A good deal on state prisons”
The budget crisis gripping the state just may have some positive long-term effects, at least as it relates to the state's overcrowded corrections system and its runaway spending.
Last week came news that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matt Cate and Clark Kelso, the man appointed by a federal judge to bring medical care in the system up to constitutional standards, reached broad agreement on construction of two long-term health care facilities for inmates, one of them possibly in San Diego, with a total of 3,400 beds. Under the agreement, medical facilities also would be improved at each of the state's 33 existing prisons…
LINK - SignonSanDiego.com (San Diego Union-Tribune)
