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Brown seeks $12.4M more for prison health facility
By recordnet.com- Jennie Rodriguez-Moore
Published: 05/14/2014

SACRAMENTO - The newly built prison medical center southeast of Stockton could see a significant boost in funding, in part to fix conditions deemed "inadequate" by a medical receiver less than one year after opening.

Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing a $12.4 million increase to the California Health Care Facility's general fund in the revised budget he released Tuesday.

State officials opened the facility in June in response to federal court findings that prisoners were not receiving a constitutional level of health care, but months into operations, admissions of patient inmates were halted amid reports of unsanitary conditions and poor medical care.

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