Attorney General Jerry Brown thinks California should get a peek at how a court-appointed overseer plans to spend eight billion dollars to improve health care in the prison system.
“If public money is being spent,” Brown said, “the public has the right to know how it’s going to be spent.”
That sounds fair enough. Get his side of the story here:
Our feisty AG:
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Or just read the whole brief that was filed today and then decide for yourself here. Well, that’s a bit much to read, but here’s the crux:
“The State of California has acknowledged the need to provide constitutionally adequate healthcare. The state, however, argues that the Receiver has not complied with the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which requires that any prison remediation plan that a court orders “is narrowly drawn, extends no further than necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right, and is the least intrusive means necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right.” (18 U.S.C. § 3626(a)(1)(A)).”
Is that so crazy, wanting to see what the plans are before turning over a quarter billion dollar “down payment?”
We’ll see.
