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| Site for prison hospital is OK'd |
| By recordnet.com |
| Published: 10/21/2009 |
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STOCKTON - Stockton will be home to a new prison hospital, California corrections officials announced Tuesday, highlighting the jobs it will bring to the economically challenged community. Plans for the California Health Care Facility, Stockton, at the same time drew criticism from local business and political leaders who fear the project will drain doctors and nurses away from area hospitals that treat the public. J. Clark Kelso, the Federal Receiver for California Prison Health Care Services, said he and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matt Cate signed an agreement approving the Stockton site. "This is a significant milestone," Kelso said. He said he chose the location because it is near Stockton - an urban center - and the state already had property to be readily used. Under the plans, the inmate health care facility will house 1,734 adult physically and mentally ill inmates. It will be built on the site of the Karl Holton Youth Correctional Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facility, which closed in 2003. Read More. |
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