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| California Inmates Sue State Over Health Care |
| By San Francisco Chronicle |
| Published: 04/13/2001 |
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Prisoners-rights advocates accused the state recently of systematically ignoring the medical needs of California's 160,000 prisoners. In a suit billed as the largest class-action ever filed over prison conditions, nine inmates and their lawyers claimed the system's health care suffers from poor training, staff shortages, delays in access to doctors and tests, interference by guards and defective care for HIV-positive prisoners. Overall prison health care is so woefully inadequate that it violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, said the suit, filed in U. S. District Court in San Francisco. It seeks a statewide injunction requiring improvements in the system and damages for the nine prisoners named as plaintiffs. 'When inmates are denied the medical care they need, it can amount to a death sentence,' said attorney Donald Specter of the Prison Law Office, a nonprofit firm representing the inmates. He said Gov. Gray Davis refused offers to settle the suit for 18 months and 'has failed to commit the resources necessary to correct the problem,' proposing only a 2 percent budget increase for prison health care. Corrections Department spokeswoman Margot Bach said the department welcomed scrutiny of prison health care. But she suggested the lawyers, from the Prison Law Office and two private firms, were simply looking for state-paid fees that would accompany a victory. 'We are at community standards' for health care, which cost more than $400 million last year, Bach said. She said inmates with AIDS are living longer because of improved medication, the department has an in-house monitoring team that audits patient records and the quality of care, and every employee who provides medical screening has a state nursing license. One-third of incoming prisoners have hepatitis-C and one in 100 is HIV- positive, Bach said. |
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