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Court Decides Privte Prisons Responsible for Infants

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Court Decides Prisons Responsible for Infants On January 11, 2010, the California Fourth District Court of Appeal issued a ruling holding that private community-based prisons contracted with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation have a legal duty to provide needed medical care to infants living in those facilities with their incarcerated mothers. The Court further held that the State might also be liable for failure to provide these children with medical care where on-site state employees are negligent. The case stems from a 40-bed facility known as Family Foundations?San Diego, which houses women prisoners with short sentence and their infant children. The statute, which authorizes this program, has the express purpose of preventing future criminal recidivism within the family unit by keeping mothers and their infant children together during their formative years...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 15, 2010 (boomark / email).