August 25, 2008
Opinion: “Prison deal bittersweet”
San Joaquin County supervisors were correct in withholding judgment on a proposal for an 1,800-bed prison hospital on the grounds of an abandoned Stockton youth prison.
The hospital would be one of seven being pushed by J. Clark Kelso, a receiver under orders from the federal court to upgrade the state's deplorable prison medical system. Kelso says the upgrade will require some 10,000 hospital beds and cost in the neighborhood of $8 billion. For months he has been negotiating with state officials to get the funds, but all that talk has come to naught, and this month he asked the court for permission to simply seize the money from the state's general fund…
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