October 9, 2008
Judge sets hearing on funding for California prison medical care
A federal judge Wednesday gave state officials nearly three weeks to explain how they will transfer $250 million to the overseer of medical care in state prisons.
In his order, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson stopped short of finding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California Controller John Chiang in contempt of court for refusing to turn over a total of $8 billion for new prison medical facilities sought by the overseer, J. Clark Kelso.
"This is an opportunity for the state to bring itself into partial compliance," Kelso said in an interview. "It obviously leaves a big chunk of the remaining funding unresolved. We're going to take this a step at a time…"
LINK - LATimes.com (The Los Angeles Times)
