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Providing Pathetic Inmate Medical Care Reduces Prison Population
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California was in the vanguard in developing a program to decrease its prison population. Providing pathetic health care to inmates was killing them off quite effectively. Just when the program was getting off the ground a Federal Judge discovered it.
Calif. Prison Chief Wants Private Care
The California prison system, plagued by mismanagement and negligence in delivering health care to inmates, is ill-equipped to provide hospital services to prisoners and should let an independent health care provider take over, the state's corrections chief said Friday.
"Clearly, I've seen examples where inmates are dying due to a lack of care in the system," Acting Corrections Secretary James Tilton said. "The facts are there: We have people not getting appropriate care."
A federal receiver took control of the prisons' medical system in April after a U.S. District Court judge found that an average of one inmate a week was dying of malpractice or neglect.
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