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Colloquy for Prison Health Amendments

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From Charlie Sullivan of CURE: Dear friends, on July 31st, Cong. Robby Rush (D-IL) by unanimous consent placed a colloquy (a conversation with Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) in the record of H.R. 3200, the comprehensive universal health care bill. This was prior to the bill being passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The colloquy is the following: Colloquy for Prison Health Amendments Mr. Rush: Mr. Chair, I would like to offer amendment number 8_001, for the purpose of securing quality care for over 2 million Americans in our nation?s prisons and jails, ensuring the same quality of medical care that others are entitled to under this bill. I think that it is important to do this for a number of reasons, but most importantly, because it is the humane and decent thing to do...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).