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How ‘bout we turn ALL California prison administration over to Health and Human Services?

Newsom plans to move California Juvenile Justice Division out of corrections department Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged to switch oversight of California’s Juvenile Justice Division from corrections officials to the Health and Human Services Agency, continuing a shift away from the incarceration of young people.

Yes, Andrew Reynolds!

Prison Health Is Public Health This quote from the famous classic Russian novelist of the 1800s can easily be adapted to hepatitis C in the United States today: “The degree of the U.S. commitment to hepatitis C elimination can be judged by its commitment to treating HCV in prisons.”

http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-determinants/prisons-and-health/news/news/2018/8/improved-access-to-health-services-to-eliminate-hepatitis-c-in-portuguese-prisons

Improved access to health services to eliminate hepatitis C in Portuguese prisons Portugal has introduced a new model of care for prison inmates, relocating health professionals from hospitals to the prisons themselves in order to provide critical on-site health care to viral hepatitis and HIV patients, and allowing access to care for inmates who were previously unable to visit h...