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CA considers medical parole as solution to rising prison health costs

Over at Sentencing Law & Policy, Doc Berman notices that California is considering medical parole to reduce health care costs, excerpting an article that holds up Texas' example: "36 other states have a version of medical parole, including Texas, which is putting about 100 to 170 inmates a year into that status," says a Golden State legislator pushing the idea. In California, according to the Sacramento Bee:the prison system could save $213 million over five years by paroling just 32 inmates identified as severely incapacitated. Twenty-one of those 32 inmates are in nursing facilities or hospitals outside prisons, which requires spending for expensive guard time ? including overtime ? as well as huge health care costs. These 21 inmates' average annual health care and guard costs total more than $1...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).