California prison receiver: Transfer sick inmates
By Don Thompson
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO — Up to 7,000 sick California inmates must be transferred to prisons with access to better medical care, a court-appointed receiver said in a court filing Tuesday.Receiver Clark Kelso...said physically and mentally ill inmates cannot get proper care at four isolated prisons in the Central Valley. Those prisons are Avenal State Prison, California State Prison in Corcoran, the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, and Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga.
The receiver's office wants the inmates to be shifted to prisons closer to urban areas, including those in Vacaville and Soledad. Tens of thousands of healthy inmates at those prisons would be displaced to make room...(Full text at MercuryNews.com)
If only CPO's had the same rights as convicts. Were that the case WE would have a court appointed Lord Protector to transfer OUR people to urban areas with adequate health care. But, alas, convicts have the juice these days.
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The decisions to place prisons and medical facilities outside of urban areas were made by the same group who have been brought back - Carl Larson, et al! Amazing.
When we were placing new facilities 25 years ago there was strong opposition to putting them in the metropolitan areas - remember Los Angeles County and the Firestone location? RJD II (medical) is finally going forward - nearly 20 years after proposed by John Ratelle based upon availability of trained medical personnel (retired military and higher education medical) in the area. Not to mention the ease of other staffing (custody, plant, teachers, etc.)based upon desire to live in more metro areas.
The decisions being made today need to be thoroughly thought out by others rather than decided upon the investment strategies of planning and construction type personnel.
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