California's Republican Senators voted to withhold critical medical and mental health care to California's prison inmate population. If they prevail they will effectively sentence a significant number of prisoners to death. They claim that a federal deal to release prisoners will address the problem but they only have 10% of the needed health care beds: releasing 90% of the state's prinsoners is not likely.

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California's Republican Senators voted to withhold critical medical and mental health care to California's prison inmate population. If they prevail they will effectively sentence a significant number of prisoners to death. They claim that a federal deal to release prisoners will address the problem but they only have 10% of the needed health care beds: releasing 90% of the state's prinsoners is not likely.

Authors Bio:
An economist for 34 years I have remained committed to social justice and economic equality for as long. As long as we keep voting in Tweedly-Demos and Tweedly-Repugs nothing will change. The only way we can affect the political structure is to force the Dems to adopt truly progressive policies and fight for them. And we seem unable to elect the Democrats who are capable of carryng out progressive reforms. Therefore we must deny any moderate or Blue Dog his or her seat in Congress, even if the Dems lose. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.