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"Fixing the Prison Health Care System Through Changes in Punishment"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this new piece on SSRN that might be of special interest to policy-makers and prison officials in California who are trying to get out from under various court-ordered requirements to improve prison health care conditions.  Here is the abstract: Something must be done to improve access to health care in America?s prisons.  A prison sentence today imposes an illegitimate burden of poor quality medical care on prisoners. The prison system neither treats inmate fairly nor effectively, and exacerbates and spreads disease. Existing pathways to reform have failed.  Legislative fixes have been mired in losing political battles.  Efforts at litigating for change have been derailed by hostility both from the judiciary and legislatures...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).