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Prison Health Care

Let's Talk About Prison Health Care

John Maki | Posted 04.02.2013 | Chicago
Read More: Health Care, Greg Harris, Illinois Department of Corrections, Prison Reform, Health Care Reform, Prison System, Prison Health Care, Chicago News
John Maki

Through decades of passing laws and supporting policies that have filled our prisons with an unprecedented number of inmates, we have built a prison health care system without asking difficult and yet fundamental questions about what we have created.

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How Are Realignment Billions Being Spent?

Michael Santos | Posted 05.18.2013 | Crime
Read More: Realignment, Prison, California Prison Realignment, Ab 109, Prison Reform, State Prisons California, Private Prisons, Recidivism, Prison Health Care, Crime News
Michael Santos

There is a lot of controversy around The California Prisoner Realignment Bill, a legislative response to judicial decisions concerning health care in state prison.

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This Man Claims He Threatened To Kill Obama To Get Medical Care

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.23.2013 | Business
Read More: Federal Judges, Stephen Espalin, Prison Sentence, Prison, President Barack Obama, Jail Healthcare, Federal Court, President George W. Bush, Healthcare, Prison Health Care, Jail Health Care, Business News

Severe chest pains drove one man to do the unthinkable to receive the medical attention he desired. Stephen Espalin, a homeless 57-year-old man li...

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'Just Like Anybody Else...It Hurts': Debate To Give Death Row Inmate $56,000 Hip Replacement

AP | BRETT BARROUQUERE | Posted 07.17.2012 | Crime
Read More: Death Row, Death Row Inmate, Hip Replacement, Robert Foley Hip Replacement, Mug Shots, Inmate Health, Kentucky, Death Row Inmate Hip Replacement, Convicted Murderer Health Care, Prison Health, Robert Foley, Prison Health Care, Crime News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A condemned killer's fight to receive surgery for agonizing hip pain pushed Kentucky officials into an uncomfortable debate ov...

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Now That We Have the "Right" To Health Care, How Will We Be Assured The "Duties" Will Be Performed?

Tamara N. Holder | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Jorge Montes, Governor Quinn, Illinois-Prison-Health, Prison Health Care, Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Illinois Department of Corrections, Wexford Health Sources, Decatur Memorial Hospital, Southern Illinois University, Home News
Tamara N. Holder

Today, President Obama extended all Americans a "right" that prisoners already possess: health care. But, the right to health care means nothing unl...

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State Prisons Look To Cut Medical Costs With Telephone Doctors

Quad-City Times | Kurt Erickson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Illinois Prisons, Telemedicine, Prison System, Health, Illinois Prison Health, Prison Health Care, Chicago News

Hoping to combat rising medical costs, Illinois prison officials have quietly begun investigating a new way to treat inmates....

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