Health Dialogues is a special series from KQED's "The California Report" that facilitates an ongoing discussion of California health care issues that are important to the underserved: children, low-income residents, minorities, and people with disabilities to name just a few.
In 2005, California state prison health care
was put under the care of a federal Receivership.
Health Dialogues checks in on conditions with the
current Receiver, along with a representative of the
organization that brought the original lawsuit against
California to improve health conditions.Guest: Donald Specter, director of the Prison Law Office.Guest: J. Clark Kelso, receiver in charge of California prison health care.
More:
California Prison Health Care Services
- Public information about the federal
court-mandated effort to bring medical care in
California prisons up to constitutional standards.
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