California would allow more ill and dying inmates to be released from state prisons under legislation that cleared the state Senate and heads to the Assembly for final approval.
The bill would remove the 24-hour-care requirement, instead making inmates eligible if they cannot complete activities of daily living. It would also allow them to be freed if they have progressive dementia or another cognitive impairment.
“California’s current policy is too narrow, and the process is lengthy and redundant, unnecessarily saddling the state with high medical costs," Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting said after the Senate supported his bill. “We can do better.” But FAMM's general counsel, Mary Price, said in a statement that “the state cannot afford to waste its limited resources incarcerating seriously and terminally ill people who pose no threat to public safety.”
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