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: Legal Pad | LA"The most extravagant proposal for inmate health care" may go to Supreme Court
By Richard Binder
The legal challenges over California's inmate medical and mental health care systems date back to 1991 and initiated studies that found the system was indeed failing prisoners. Some doctors, for example, reused tongue depressors, passing them from patient to patient.
Nearly two decades later, the desires of the federal courts and inmate advocates have run into a wall of political inertia. Legislative stonewalling, California's mounting financial problems and legal counterpunches by the state have conspired to stall the most ambitious of the overhaul plans.
The result is a showdown over whether federal judges can take control of California's inmate population and order the state to make costly changes to its corrections system.
The dispute seems headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).
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