June 9, 2010
With prison hospital, Stockton learns how to bargain
If there's a bully in California government, it is the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The CDCR likes to pick on Stockton by dumping prison facilities here.
Unfair? Costly to you? San Joaquin County groans with three prisons already? Too bad. We're opening three more: a re-entry facility and two prison hospitals.
That's how the CDCR operates. CDCR is the unjust agent of a dysfunctional state that runs roughshod over poorer and politically weak communities.
This time, there was a second player: a court-appointed federal prison hospital receiver. For J. Clark Kelso, too, Stockton's needs were an afterthought...
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