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22 Jan 2011, 11:21 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Just about everybody who's looked at it thinks the 24% budget cut slated for prison healthcare in Texas proposed House budget is unworkable; now we learn it supposedly opens a path toward privatizing prison healthcare, reports Mike Ward at the Statesman:Health care for inmates in Texas' 112 prisons costs taxpayers more than $929 million for two years. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 7:13 am by admin
Daza’s confidence that Hugo Chavez cares a whit for the rule of law. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 3:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
• Excludes funding required for the biennialization of the FY 2010-11 approved pay raise for community supervision officers and direct care staff • Eliminates program funding for the Harris County Community Corrections Facility, the Battering Intervention and Prevention Program and made substantial funding reductions to Treatment Alternatives to Incarceration Program (90%) • Reduces funding levels for mental health services and continuity of care for… [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 10:02 am
And it lives up to that by naming names and taking no prisoners on current health news. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 12:22 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Psychiatric care in prisons and pharmacy expenses would both be cut about 14%. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 8:00 am
” Veterans determined to be suffering from mental health issues because of time spent in combat may be eligible for nonprofit treatment care instead of probation or jail time if they are convicted of a crime. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 5:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Under their plan, "education bore the brunt of the cuts - $12 billion - because federal health care laws prevent states from reducing eligibility for people covered through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 1:36 am by Matthew Flinn
Following a failed application for discharge from hospital in 2007, on 24 April 2009 the Mental Health Review Tribunal decided that under sections 72 and 73 of the Act, RB could be discharged subject to conditions, including a condition that he reside at a specified care home, and that he did not leave the grounds of that care home except when supervised. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 11:59 am by admin
  In Illinois, towns have been raising property taxes to keep up with pension and health-care costs for several years, but the scale and scope of the increases this year are unprecedented, said Joe McCoy, a lobbyist with the Illinois Municipal League. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 8:42 am by Lyle Denniston
The Supreme Court, in the early stages of setting up the cases it will decide during its next Term, agreed on Tuesday to decide whether patients receiving Medicaid benefits, and the providers who serve their health care needs, have a right under the Constitution to challenge a state’s reduction of benefit payments. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 12:28 am by Kevin LaCroix
In a January 12, 2010 opinion (here) in a subprime-related securities suit involving Goldman Sachs-issued mortgage pass-through certificates, Southern District of New York Judge Harold Baer, Jr. granted the rating agency defendants’ motion to dismiss on the grounds that they are not "underwriters" under Section 11, but denied the Goldman Sachs defendants’ motion to dismiss, at least as to the securities offerings in which the plaintiffs had actually purchased shares. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 2:52 pm by Michael Markarian
Armed Forces and calling for their adoption and care after their service is over, and H. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 2:36 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
 About one in five TDCJ inmates, said Whitmire, were clients of the state's indigent mental health system before entering prison. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 4:27 pm by Jeralyn
Twice the odds of developing serious mental health problems. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 9:45 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Don’t incarcerate youth for minor crimes or send kids to adult prisons. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 7:18 am by Lyle Denniston
The Lopez precedent has been playing a major role in the spreading national constitutional debate over President Obama’s health care reform plan. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 4:17 am by Ray Mullman
  Often being confined to a facility feels more like prison than home. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 6:00 am by Howard Friedman
Plaintiff had argued that he fears the health consequences of shaves by prison barbers using electric razors, so his only alternative is to convert to Islam to take advantage of the limited exception allowing Muslim inmates to use disposable razors to shave certain areas of the body as a part of their religious hygiene. [read post]
8 Jan 2011, 10:43 am
She had been ordered to begin serving a 25-year prison sentence for her role in a health-care financing fraud scheme at the now defunct company. [read post]