For the second time this week, the state Senate on Thursday rejected a $7 billion borrowing plan to provide better health care for prison inmates. J. Clark Kelso, the receiver appointed by a federal court to oversee inmate health care, threatened to take the money directly from the state treasury. Doing so would cut into other state services at a time the state is facing a $15.2 billion budget deficit. The spending proposal fell three votes short of the two-thirds majority it needed to pass. The vote was 24-15. Larry talks with State Sentor Dick Ackerman, State Senator Darrell Steinberg, and Don Specter, Director of the Prison Law Office.
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