Posted on 11/18/2007 9:19:19 AM PST by SmithL
SACRAMENTO -- The federal receiver who controls California's inmate health care system is ordering salary increases for nearly 1,500 prison doctors and nurses.
Robert Sillen says the raises are needed to fill vacancies in a medical system so bad that some inmates die of neglect or malpractice.
He's raising doctors' salaries as much as 20 percent, to about $250,000 a year for many physicians. A federal judge gave Sillen authority to raise doctors' salaries as high as $300,000.
It's the second increase this year. Sillen says the first bump, in March, didn't do enough to trim a nearly 40 percent vacancy rate in doctors.
Sillen also plans salary increases for 1,100 nurses.
The raises come as the Legislature's fiscal analyst is predicting a $10 billion budget deficit.
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Aren’t all prison doctors just apprenticeship proctologists anyway?
The medical system is by definition cruel and unusual. It is the largest mental health system in the world since the state closed many hospitals.
The department has done a piss poor job of providing medical care and many medical staff have taken other jobs. Recruitment is extremely difficult. All while inmate population doubled more than 3 times in the last 30 years.
The unions have bribed previous governors and the legislature so that you can't sneeze without permission. Can't bring in a private prison system and lower costs. Inmate gangs determine housing assignments. And on and on. If someone has a solution, it would be refreshing.
Are prison doctors in the same union as prison guards in CA.
The CA prison guards union is absolutely legendary for it’s corruption, featherbedding, work rules and sheer political power in that state. Under Greyout Davis they pretty much had veto power over every decision made by Sacramento.
screw giving inmates any doctors....let them suffer the way the non criminal taxpayers have to suffer!!!!
In the Federal Prison system. It used to be a few years ago that many if not most of the doctors were foreign and older and had not passed US boards.
The exceptions were to be found at Rochester FCI and Ft Worth FCI and Springfield.
Rochester which may now be closed was the only one worth a shite.
The backbone of the Fed’s medical system are the Physicians Assistants they hire. The older Vietnam era corpmen types who came over from VA hospitals had the reputation of being capable. many of the newer ones did not.
An unlicensed Fed prison doc made around 150K 10 years ago plus usual govt benefits.
PAs made 60K or so starting out.
Point is that medical care in any joint unless you are very lucky is substandard and probably worse than Canada.
and no one is gonna care of course unless their loved one is dying in there
A lot of the Cal system doctors were retired military. Now more foreign grown, including a lot of Filipinos. If I can increase my salary and work in a better place, why go into the prison and work in all that mess? Same for nurses, who can get a job just about anywhere.
Working in a prison attracts folks in rural small towns where BOP salaries outstrip the competition.
It would be a horrible place to work.
He's raising doctors' salaries as much as 20 percent, to about $250,000 a year for many physicians. A federal judge gave Sillen authority to raise doctors' salaries as high as $300,000.
Here we go again. Unelected, unaccountable, Federal Judges issuing fiats from on high. Dam the consequences or methods, even if its feasible, just "do it"! Then morons like Sandy O'Connor moan when we the people bitch about edicts from Federal Judges - 'how dare we peons question them'.
Its almost like a bad dream - we're all back in the Middle Ages having to worry about killing the 'Kings Dear'. Or what tax the local Baron will impose next on his serfs (us).
The Cal system is a miserable place to work, with a few exceptions.
I don't know what else they can do. The system is corrupted by the union's financial contribuitions and it doesn't look like any hot shots from out-of-state want to run it.
Lastly, the public doesn't give a damn what happens inside as long as they don't come over the wall.
a lot of the nurses here in Nashville hospitals today are Ukranian...many are quite fetching.
There is a shortage of nurses no doubt.
Fetchaway! Best wishes!
“It would be a horrible place to work.”
That’s what I thought. A few months ago, I toured a Federal Detention Center facility in Miami, in hopes of getting a job. I was told (by the Department of Immigration)that the prisoners (all illegals) were mostly folks that had been picked up for being in the country illegally. In actuality, most were child-molesters, murderers, utter scum of the earth. The guards who were supposed to protect us, while mostly female and nice to look at, were small and petite.
I thought: no way in hell am I working in this dump.
“The raises come as the Legislature’s fiscal analyst is predicting a $10 billion budget deficit.”
California is in a death spiral. I give it 4 or 5 years, and then anarchy will reign, as the government collapses.
The law of supply and demand at work.
The only way to make doctors cheaper is to increase the supply.
Was that Krome?
or the realtively new downtown joint?
why on earth they use womyn for that sort of detail is so stupid...
they tried that at Leavenworth back 20 years ago and one female guard was savaged and butchered
pc naivete
fyi
Hi Wardaddy:
Yes, it was the Krome facility. the position was as a US Public Health Service LCDR. Terrible about that female guard at Leavenworth — it could happen in Krome too.
It is utter PC insanity, putting small petite females in charge of lowlife criminals. I stand a great deal taller, and am a lot bigger than 90% of the thugs I saw there. However, if they come at you in a wave, it won’t matter much how big you are.
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