Editorial: State Should Move Ill Inmates Out of Prisons

California can no longer afford to keep seriously ill inmates in the prison system and should embrace the idea of medical parole, or placing prisoners in a medical facility under supervised parole, a Sacramento Bee editorial argues. The editorial calls for legislation on medical parole that has "teeth," noting that bill (SB 1399) currently under consideration is too weak on conditions for medical parole.

• "Editorial: Medical Parole in Prisons Long Overdue" (Sacramento Bee, 4/4).