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Whither Texas prison healthcare with 24% budget cuts?

Just about everybody who's looked at it thinks the 24% budget cut slated for prison healthcare in Texas proposed House budget is unworkable; now we learn it supposedly opens a path toward privatizing prison healthcare, reports Mike Ward at the Statesman:Health care for inmates in Texas' 112 prisons costs taxpayers more than $929 million for two years. The House plan would cut that to just over $707 million.Most of the proposed cuts would come from reduced treatment, a situation that prison officials worry might eventually cost more, as convicts whose health needs could have been addressed early on require more expensive hospital care.In addition, drug costs are expected to continue to increase, and legal costs could go up significantly as inmates file lawsuits over reduced medical care...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 22, 2011 (boomark / email).