September 22, 2008
Prison health care receiver, state officials spar over $8 billion
Feuding flared up Monday between state officials and the federally appointed receiver who proposes bringing California prison health care up to constitutional standards by building seven inmate medical centers, starting with one near Stockton.
Prison health care receiver J. Clark Kelso filed court papers in advance of an Oct. 6 hearing in San Francisco before U.S. District Thelton Henderson, who appointed Kelso. Kelso seeks $8 billion to build a total of 10,000 medical and mental health beds.
The first of the medical centers statewide is planned for the plot of land occupied by the shuttered Karl Holton Youth Correctional Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facility southeast of Stockton…
LINK - Recordnet.com
