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- Title
Chapter 837: Inmate Medical Release Under Realignment.
- Authors
Easterling, Cameron
- Abstract
The article offers information on the Chapter 837 of the California legislature, which provides jail inmates with medical financial aid and other benefits under realignment. It informs that Chapter 837 allows state prisons to use county jails for decentralizing their financial burden under realignment by releasing deathly ill jail inmates. it discusses the important case of Brown v. Plata in which the U.S. Supreme Court used realignment to reduce prison population in California.
- Subjects
MEDICAL care of institutionalized persons; REALIGNMENT (Political science); PRISON population; JAIL overcrowding; UNITED States. Supreme Court; BROWN v. Plata
- Publication
McGeorge Law Review, 2013, Vol 44, Issue 3, p697
- ISSN
1520-9245
- Publication type
Article