There needs to be some kind of group health insurance for inmates with defined benefits for what is and is not covered with the premiums paid for by their savings or jobs while in jail. Just like in mainstream society.

Incredible. Unbelievable.

The scandal here is not that prisoners receive care. We all must receive care. The scandal is the tremendous robbery of our society by the medical industry, which is twice as expensive as many other countries' universal coverage health care. This is easily researched online. Look at the United Kingdom and Canada for two examples.

But wait a minute. I thought teachers were crushing the budget. I'm really going to have to re-think this now.

RE:bwik "The scandal here is not that prisoners receive care..." ------------------- Yes, the scandal is that we have such an obscene health care system that the poor do not get the care afforded to those in prison. Predictably, the tea party crowd (gop) solution would be to bring those incarcerated down to the care received by the poor -- instead of bringing the care of the poor up to the level received by those incarcerated with constitutional protections.

This article illustrates just how S-D-R-A-W-K-C-A-B (That's: BACKWARDS spelled BACKWARDS) our society has become. Prisoners get better Health Care than Law-Abiding Citizens? Unbelievable! Makes me wonder what we need to do in order to get into prison ourselves. A stupid thought there. But this article makes it sound like that might be the ONLY way for ANY of us to get Health Care that our Insurance won't cover, and that we can't afford to pay for out-of-pocket. Hmmm. Something doesn't seem right here.

I wonder how much the cost of prison health care would go down if we quit putting people in prison for drug possessions and DWI's. First you want to get ultra tough on petty crime and fill the prisons to their max capacity and now you're miffed when you actually have to care for the needs of the people you've incarcerated. You can't have it both ways. If prisons were used to house mainly violent offenders instead of addicts who need treatment, the prison population would be cut in half, and I would venture to guess that the health costs would as well.

being convicted doesn't mean no medical. Thats the unfortunate cost we have to bear. And Inmate would when a court battle on this any day.

Not only is the medical industry overblown with wasteful spending, but so is the growing prison industry. Look at the growing prison population cited in this article.

Even a compassionate person should be outraged. Our priorities are titanically screwed up.