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Passing prisoners (and the health-care buck) to nursing homes in Ohio

By Douglas A. Berman

I recently posted here on efforts by state officials in California to divert state prisoners to county jails in order to impose the economic costs of prisoner confinement on to localities.  This story from my local paper, headlined "Nursing homes may get ailing inmates: Prisoners would be in no condition to threaten residents, state says," highlights how state officials in Ohio are trying to pass the economic costs of prisoner confinement in other ways.   Here are the fascinating details: Besieged by high medical costs and overcrowding, Ohio prison officials are turning to nursing homes to care for inmates who are medically incapacitated or terminally ill. Few prisoners will be placed in nursing homes, perhaps 20 to 40 statewide, said Michael Randle, assistant director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).