Something that is needed, but how about citizens who are not in jail...they need help too...and funding...which has now been chopped in the State of California...who's going to determine who gets health care and who does not...BD
SACRAMENTO -- In a proposal that would nearly double the state's prison construction program, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration asked lawmakers Friday to approve $7 billion in new spending to bring medical and mental healthcare in California prisons up to constitutional standards.
The plan, to be overseen by a court-appointed federal receiver, would result in the construction of seven facilities by the middle of 2013 to house 10,000 chronically sick or mentally ill inmates, many of them elderly, who are now in traditional cells or dormitories. It would also entail improvements to existing healthcare facilities at the prisons.
California proposes $7 billion for prison healthcare - Los Angeles Times
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