June 1, 2009
Paring Plans on Health Care in California Prisons
The court-appointed receiver charged with improving the health system in California prisons and establishing a constitutionally acceptable level of care has had to scale back his plans significantly because of the state's economic troubles, federal and state officials say.
Under a new deal, the state would pay more than $3 billion to build two prison hospitals and renovate other facilities to create 5,000 beds for ill inmates.
Those terms are much more modest than the improvements urged last year by the receiver, J. Clark Kelso. Judge Thelton E. Henderson of Federal District Court in San Francisco had ordered the state to pay for an $8 billion plan to build 10,000 prison hospital beds…
LINK - NYTimes.com (The New York Times)
