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CA: Judge rejects returning prison care to state

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Judge rejects returning prison care to state Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, March 25, 2009 (03-24) 12:33 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge rejected Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's request to return health care in California prisons to state control Tuesday, ruling that a court-appointed overseer is still needed to restore basic medical treatment in the overcrowded and understaffed prisons. Judge Thelton Henderson ruled in 2006 that the state was ...Clark Kelso, standing outside Folsom State Prison, retain... View Larger U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson in San Francisco said that although health care has improved under federal management since 2006, he has "no confidence that such improvements would continue, or even be maintained," if the state regained control now...continue to full post

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