California / Prisons / Layoff Warnings to 2,200 Employees

California Correctional Health Care Services has sent layoff warning notices to 2,200 of its employees, the Sacramento Bee’s “The State Worker” reports (Ortiz, “The State Worker,” Sacramento Bee, 12/12).

Background

About six years ago, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson appointed federal receiver J. Clark Kelso to oversee the state’s prison health care system after determining that an average of one inmate per week died as a result of malpractice or neglect.

In May 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its inmate population to help improve health care.

In April, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation released a plan for reorganizing the state’s prisons and ending federal oversight.

In October, federal officials agreed to begin transferring select administrative functions of California’s prison health care system to state officials (California Healthline, 10/25).

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via Calif. Prison Officials Send Layoff Warnings to 2,200 Employees – California Healthline.