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CA: "California's prison healthcare mess"- op-ed by Franklin Zimring

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From the Los Angeles Times Opinion California's prison healthcare mess Judicial action might be quietly welcomed by some officials under political and economic pressure. By Franklin E. Zimring October 25, 2008 The continuing saga of federal court efforts to reform medical care in California's prisons is a textbook example both of why constitutional courts are unpopular in this country and why we need them. At a hearing Monday, a panel of three federal judges will consider whether the governor and comptroller should be held in contempt of court for failing to provide a cash down payment of $250 million on an $8-billion court-ordered plan to build seven medical facilities for prisoners. The political timing for this shootout couldn't be worse if Stephen King had written the script...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 26, 2008 (boomark / email).