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Calif. fight over inmate care may go to high court

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Calif. fight over inmate care may go to high court By DON THOMPSON Associated Press Writer Posted: 03/14/2009 San Jose Mercury News SACRAMENTO?When the quality of health care in California's sprawling prison system was first challenged in court, it seemed only a matter of time before major reforms would take hold. Nearly two decades later, the desires of the federal courts and inmate advocates have run into a wall of political inertia. Legislative stonewalling, California's mounting financial problems and legal counterpunches by the state have conspired to stall the most ambitious of the overhaul plans. The result is a showdown over whether federal judges can take control of California's inmate population and order the state to make costly changes to its corrections system...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 15, 2009 (boomark / email).