For many inmates that
were/are serving a sentence in jail don’t really get any medical treatment. The
jail system had a poor medical system for these inmates however; the state’s
prison did something about this so the federal people would get off their back.
California has a $840 million medical system which would provide care to more
than 1,800 inmates. In July they opened the state-of-the-art California Health
Care Facility. However, there was miscommunication and mismanagement between
the medical staff and the prison. It wasn’t only that they weren’t getting medical
care, but also not shoes, soap, or towels. Many complains arose and the inmates
lawyers were the ones to voice them out. Prisoner’s advocates were fighting to
help the inmates because some weren’t even allowed to shower. Now there has been
change for these inmates and now have some kind of medical care. The state
Corrections Department is in charge of the general custody and Kelso is in
charge of the $1.7 billion a year prison medical care system.
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