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| CA czar to order new med facilities |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/20/2006 |
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SACRAMENTO, CA - The federal receiver in charge of inmate health care in California prisons said Tuesday that he will order construction of new prison medical facilities on his own after lawmakers failed to act during a special session last month. Robert Sillen said he will seek space for 500 emergency beds within six months and a total of 5,000 new beds in five years. He said the beds are needed to improve a health care system that kills an average of an inmate a week through neglect or malpractice. Sillen and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked lawmakers to approve two new prisons for inmates with medical or mental health problems. But lawmakers adjourned until after the November election without acting on Schwarzenegger's $6 billion plan to ease crowding in the nation's largest state prison system. "We're going to have a ribbon cutting within three to five years. Whether that can be done through the state, I doubt it" because of bureaucratic inertia, Sillen said in a telephone interview. "If the state won't sell the revenue bonds for it, then we'll go into the general fund and take it from there." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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