By s.e. smith on 6 September, 2010
Currently, health care in California’s prison system is under court supervision, in the aftermath of a lawsuit pointing out that conditions were so poor in California’s prisons that an average of one inmate per week was dying due to inadequate health care. Huge numbers of people in California’s prisons are disabled; just for example, people [...]
Posted in events, policy, politics | Tagged California, California budget, disabled inmates, health care in prisons, prison reform
By s.e. smith on 20 May, 2010
Does this headline read like deja vu to you? With the global recession is coming a wave of devastating budget cuts for people with disabilities as governments struggle to address funding shortages. Lauredhel just covered the major cuts in Australia’s new budget that impacted people with disabilities, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California recently unveiled [...]
Posted in class issues, events, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged budget, budget cuts, California, California budget, social programs, welfare
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