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Hearing Set for State to Start Funding Prison Projects

A U.S. District Court judge is giving the state a few more weeks to determine how to make a $250 million down payment on prison health care projects.

The money was approved under Assembly Bill 900.

The court-appointed receiver for improving how state prisons provide health care to inmates, J. Clark Kelso, is also seeking a contempt citation against Gov. Schwarzenegger and State Controller John Chiang for failure to pay $8 billion earmarked for prison construction projects…

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