Prison Medical Receiver Seeks Transfer of Sick Inmates
In a court filing Tuesday, court-appointed prison health care receiver J. Clark Kelso said that up to 7,000 California inmates with physical and mental illnesses must be transferred to prisons with access to better medical care because they cannot receive proper care at four isolated prisons in the Central Valley.
- "Transfer of Up to 7,000 California Prison Inmates Sought" (Thompson, AP/Los Angeles Daily News, 1/20).