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Health care is a "budget buster" ... for inmates in Minnesota

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local article, health care costs keep rising for the incarcerated. The piece is headlined "Inmate health care is a budget buster; Demands for medical and dental care are straining jails as never before, and sheriffs are looking for answers."  Here is how it begins: A Washington County jail inmate, ill with cancer, is driven to a nearby hospital every week for chemotherapy, accompanied by a corrections officer likely to be working on overtime. In Ramsey County, two inmates needed emergency medical care last year that rang up $445,000 in hospital bills and busted the county's budget.  Hennepin County was paying so much for jail inmate dialysis that it bought its own machines to do the job. As lawmakers in Minnesota and Washington, D...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).