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| Ky. studies private nursing homes for inmates |
| By policeone.com- Adam Beam |
| Published: 06/02/2014 |
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LA GRANGE, Ky. — Patrick O'Hara, a prisoner convicted of murder, is 69 years old and mostly confined to his bed. He is incarcerated in a sparkling-clean facility where nurses work behind steel cages and he gets oxygen from tubes in his nose while a television mumbles nearby. He's one of 67 inmates in the Kentucky State Reformatory's nursing care facility, which costs state taxpayers more than $4.4 million a year. In a state grappling with $1.6 billion in budget cuts since 2008, some Kentucky lawmakers ask why it's worth keeping O'Hara and others like him behind bars. The state legislature has approved a pilot program that requires Kentucky to parole some infirm inmates — excluding sex offenders and death row inmates — to private nursing homes where the federal government, through Medicaid, would pay most of the medical bills. Read More. |
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