California loses fight to end prison oversight

alp227

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat May-01-10 01:02 PM
Original message

California loses fight to end prison oversight

Source: Associated Press

The Schwarzenegger administration lost a legal fight Friday to end oversight of California's prison health care system.

A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a federal judge can continue with a court-appointed receiver to improve inmate medical care.

The appeals court also dismissed the administration's request to stop the receiver's construction plans to add medical beds.

Rachel Arrezola, a spokeswoman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said the state will appeal the ruling to a larger panel of the appeals court in San Francisco.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/01/BAMP1D7MUH.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Flaneur

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat May-01-10 01:19 PM
Response to Original message

1. California can't afford its own gulag.

Maybe it needs to rethink its harsh sentencing policies.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Jkid

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat May-01-10 08:21 PM
Response to Reply #1

6. America needs to rethink about their harah sentecing at the state and federal levels.

The country needs to review and unify criminal laws so that at least it is at least strong as the federal criminal code. Others include decriminalizing drug offenses, and victimless crimes.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Jefferson23

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat May-01-10 01:25 PM
Response to Original message

2. Gee Arnold, stop being a schmuck.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

bemildred

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat May-01-10 01:44 PM
Response to Original message

3. Screw you Ahnuld, and screw the private prison corporations too.

They are a big part of why the state is bankrupt.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Bette Noir

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat May-01-10 03:45 PM
Response to Original message

4. Arnold has been such a dandy governor that he's sorry the Constitution

won't let him be President.

The rest of us are very glad.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Judi Lynn

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat May-01-10 05:37 PM
Response to Original message

5. Fantastically ugly idea. n/t

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

petronius

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat May-01-10 08:27 PM
Response to Original message

7. Maybe the gov should spend some of this money and effort on improving prison

conditions, the things the court objected to in the first place. Then, the court would remove the receiver without being asked. It's pretty sleazy to try and use budget problems as an excuse to get out of a court mandate, especially when that mandate is to take care of some of the most vulnerable Californians...

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Merlot

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun May-02-10 11:31 AM
Response to Original message

8. California didn't loose fight, arnie did. Big difference.

Anytime arnie looses, California wins.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

DU AdBot (1000+ posts)

Mon Apr 29th 2024, 03:11 PM
Response to Original message

Advertisements [?]

Top

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.