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Medical prison close to resuming admissions
By recordnet.com- Jennie Rodriguez-Moore
Published: 07/14/2014

STOCKTON - The California Health Care Facility in Stockton, built for the state's sickest prisoners, is expected to resume admissions of patient inmates within the next few weeks, correctional health officials say. Intake of ill prisoners has been suspended for more than six months as officials fix problems with sanitation, medical care and other operational shortcomings since opening the facility in June 2013. The prison, slated to eventually hold 1,722 inmates, was built to improve the quality of health care after a federal court found inmates were receiving subpar treatment, an injustice deemed unconstitutional.

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