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Dying on the State's Dime

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Emily Ramshaw's report in the Texas Tribune on medical care, and costs, in Texas prisons.  LINK  In this time of projected state revenue shortfalls, it's required reading.  Here's the opening:A gaunt old man, thick with whiskers and stricken with dementia, writhes under the covers of his bed. Down the hall, doctors monitor elderly diabetics with recently amputated limbs, medicate terminal cancer patients shuffling by with walkers and tether shivering dialysis patients to blood-cleaning machines.Despite the pacing guards, the handcuffs and the bars on the windows, the geriatric and medical wing at the Estelle Unit in Huntsville looks more like a nursing home than a maximum-security prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).