State corrections officials call for a major expansion of medical and mental care for inmates. A new plan would add more than 5,800 new health-care beds for the overburdened system.
California's Corrections and Rehabilitation Department wants to convert several juvenile facilities into treatment centers for inmates.
Some of the biggest changes would happen in Stockton where officials want to turn one juvenile facility into a prison hospital with more than 1,700 hundred beds.
KCBS' Chris Filippi reports
That would be on top of another juvenile site that would be converted to a care facility with more than 1,100 beds.
Also hundreds of new health-care beds would be added at existing prisons across the state.
Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matthew Cate says the strategy is tangentially related to a federal court order that California reduce its inmate total.
A three-judge panel has ordered the state to cut its prison population by 40,000 within two years. The state must submit its prison population plan on Thursday.
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