{"id":38,"date":"2010-08-05T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/"},"modified":"2020-10-14T03:54:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:54:26","slug":"sick-inmates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/death-in-prison\/sick-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick Inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"https:\/\/essaymoment.com\/pay-for-your-homework\/\">more<\/a> than ever, inmates are growing old and dying in prison \u2013 and costing the <a href=\"https:\/\/idealica.me\/es\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none;color:#333\">idealica.me\/es\/<\/a> state several millions of dollars. The most expensive California prisoners have medical bills ranging from $100,000 to $2.5 million each, according to the federally appointed receiver who oversees the state&#8217;s prison health care. A federal receiver was appointed to run the system after California was declared incapable of providing adequate heath care to its inmates as the result of a 2001 lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The average 55-year-old inmate has the health of someone 10 years older because of substance abuse or poor health before incarceration and the hardships of prison <a href=\"https:\/\/idealica.me\/pl\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none;color:#333\">idealica.me\/pl\/<\/a> life. Aging inmates cost two to three times more than younger prisoners \u2013 on average more than $100,000 per inmate per year, according to a the National Institute of Corrections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inmates age and sicken as life sentences take their toll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":451,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-photo.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/6052"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}