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CA: Court asked to order state to pay $8 billion for inmate health care

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Court asked to order state to pay $8 billion for inmate health care By Andy Furillo - afurillo@sacbee.com Published 10:14 am PDT Wednesday, August 13, 2008 California prison medical care receiver J. Clark Kelso filed a legal motion today to force the state to come up with $8 billion over the next five years to fund his plan to build seven long-term care facilities and provide other improvements for inmate patients. The action filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco also seeks contempt of court citations against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Controller John Chiang. Kelso said he is still talking with the governor's and controller's offices and other officials to resolve the dispute over funding of his medical plan but that he will ask that both Schwarzenegger and Chiang be present at a scheduled Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).