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Prison healthcare on Senate committee agenda

By Gritsforbreakfast

The quality of prison healthcare will be back in the spotlight this week when the Senate Criminal Justice Committee takes up the topic. Here are the time and place details of Thursday's hearing in Austin (invited testimony only).According to the Austin Statesman editorial board (Jan. 19), "nearly 2,000 inmates died over a recent four-year span, the most in any state in the country - even California, with its larger prison population." Mike Ward supplied an overview piece in preparation for the meeting last week ("Texas medical neglect cases stir concern about prison healthcare," Jan. 16):From 2001 to 2005, federal statistics show, 1,933 convicts died in Texas prisons, more than in any other state including California, which had 1,672 deaths and has a larger prison system than Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 20, 2008 (boomark / email).