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| California Begins to Regain Control of Prison Health Care |
| By nytimes.com |
| Published: 07/15/2015 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California on Monday began regaining responsibility for its prison health care system after nearly a decade of federal control and billions of dollars in improvements. A court-appointed receiver returned medical care at Folsom State Prison to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the first of many steps toward ending a long-running lawsuit. "Basically, what I saw at Folsom was a reasonably well-functioning health care system in a prison context," receiver J. Clark Kelso said in a telephone interview. The decision comes a decade after a federal judge found that conditions in the state's prisons were so poor that an average of an inmate each week was dying of medical malpractice or neglect. A receiver was appointed to run the system in 2006. Since then, the state has spent $2 billion for new prison medical facilities, doubled its annual prison health care budget to nearly $1.7 billion and reduced its prison population by more than 40,000 inmates. Read More. |
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