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| CDCR Regains Health Care Control at Second Prison |
| By correctionalnews.com- Jessie Fetterling |
| Published: 03/31/2016 |
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SOLEDAD, Calif. — The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) regained responsibility for providing medical care at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad in early March. This marks the second state prison that the CDCR regained medical care responsibilities for after a decade of federal control. J. Clark Kelso, the federal court-appointed receiver, turned operations back to the CDCR, despite concerns from attorneys representing inmates in a class-action lawsuit over poor medical care, said Don Spector, director of the nonprofit Prison Law Office, to the Associated Press. Because attorneys and other experts found problems with the quality and type of care being provided at the Soledad facility, Kelso and other department officials will have the court’s experts review inmate care in about six months to see if conditions improve. The Soledad prison holds more than 5,000 minimum-and medium-security inmates. Last June, Kelso first returned health care at Folsom State Prison, which has an inmate population of about 2,300, to the CDCR. While the return of control to both facilities bodes well for the state, U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson of San Francisco said a year ago that California must successfully operate all 34 adult institutions for a year before he will consider ending his control, reported the Associated Press. Read More. |
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