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It's also been two months since Salido had medication for his bipolar disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In Alameda County officials estimate 18,000 offenders in its two jails will now qualify for Medi-Cal.\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>A drug, Risperdal, prescribed by a jailhouse psychiatrist, had quelled Salido’s angry moods. “It helped me be more relaxed,” he said. “Not as much on the edge and feeling like everybody is out to get me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">Now Salido, who served two years for burglary, assault and gang involvement, has no health insurance and until recently had few options for refilling his medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">Many inmates leave county jails and state prisons with mental health problems and chronic physical ailments -- and no health coverage. Because they typically are not custodial parents, ex-offenders have long been ineligible for a public health insurance program aimed at kids, mothers and the disabled.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">But earlier this year, California and 25 other states, under a provision of the Affordable Care Act, opened up Medicaid to single and so-called “childless” adults. The change in eligibility criteria will extend Medicaid coverage to vast numbers of ex-offenders with very low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">“Historically, 10 or 11 percent of folks in detention have been eligible for Medicaid,” said Alex Briscoe, health director for Alameda County. “That number is well over 90 percent as of January,” since the ACA took full effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">[contextly_sidebar id=\"c4bac880693cbdd4b01c435155bec487\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, of those newly eligible under the Medicaid expansion, experts predict \u003ca style=\"color: #2262cc\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22566431\">one out of three\u003c/a> nationally will be former inmates or detainees. Health officials in Alameda County estimate 18,000 offenders in its two jails will now qualify. Recently, Rodrigo Salido began the process of enrolling in Medi-Cal, California's version of Medicaid, at a clinic, Healthy Oakland. He got a preliminary check up there, but once he gets his card will be able to visit a primary care doctor and see specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">Men and women involved in the criminal justice system are more likely to be sicker than the general population\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> with higher rates of diabetes, hypertension, depression, mood disorders and alcohol and drug addiction. Many have spent years -- perhaps their entire adult livens -- without health insurance and have medical conditions that must be stabilized when they’re incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">“They come to us in bad shape, and we get them as good as possible,” said Richard Lucia, the undersheriff for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">At Santa Rita jail in Dublin, one of the largest detention facilities in the United States, the pharmacy dispenses some 350,000 prescription drugs each month and spends $28 million each year on medical and mental health services. But because recidivism rates are so high in Alameda County -- two out of three inmates re-offend -- the jails’ medical clinics often end up re-stabilizing the same inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">“They leave and they get in bad shape again,” said Lucia. “And they come back to us, and we fix them up again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UU6ZFN9Tx6xh-skXCuRHCDpQ&v=rpOwkAsXXHM\">Former inmates stand to gain Medicaid under expansion\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">The churning of sick offenders costs the county when inmates are in custody -- but it also strains public hospital budgets when they’re released. “When they do need care they come to our emergency department. They cost us between $600 and $800 a visit,” said Briscoe, the county health director. “The cost drivers on our system are intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">The Medicaid expansion, county officials contend, offers a rare opportunity to connect men and women with criminal records to ongoing medical and mental health services, and to directly reimburse the county’s general fund for medical care outside of correctional facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">While it remains against federal law to use Medicaid to pay for day-to-day medical care for inmates, the program, funded by federal and state dollars, will cover hospital stays longer than 24 hours. Those longer hospital visits often involve costly and complicated surgeries, and the county estimates it could save $3 to $5 million a year in off-site hospital care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">“That would shift the cost, essentially, from the county to the state or to the federal government,” said Undersheriff Lucia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">Over the last few months, a constellation of Alameda County agencies, including the sheriff’s office, public health and social services, have been feverishly working to create new protocols that will automatically enroll all eligible inmates into Medi-Cal. Other enrollment efforts are underway in Contra Costa, San Francisco, Solano and Lassen counties, and in Cook County, Illinois, the state of Washington and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">The bureaucratic and technical challenges are immense: archaic information technology platforms must be re-tooled to share data with other county systems; arrested individuals often give false information about their marriage status, number of children, home address and income, foiling Medi-Cal eligibility background checks; and labor union rules permit only certain county workers to approve Medicaid applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">Overcoming those obstacles is a priority, Alameda county officials said, not only because of the potential cost savings, but also because the Medi-Cal expansion offers a solid chance at reducing the county’s dismal recidivism rate. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">Many inmates leave county jails and state prisons with mental health problems and chronic physical ailments -- and no health coverage. Because they typically are not custodial parents, ex-offenders have long been ineligible for a public health insurance program aimed at kids, mothers and the disabled.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">But earlier this year, California and 25 other states, under a provision of the Affordable Care Act, opened up Medicaid to single and so-called “childless” adults. The change in eligibility criteria will extend Medicaid coverage to vast numbers of ex-offenders with very low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">“Historically, 10 or 11 percent of folks in detention have been eligible for Medicaid,” said Alex Briscoe, health director for Alameda County. “That number is well over 90 percent as of January,” since the ACA took full effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, of those newly eligible under the Medicaid expansion, experts predict \u003ca style=\"color: #2262cc\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22566431\">one out of three\u003c/a> nationally will be former inmates or detainees. Health officials in Alameda County estimate 18,000 offenders in its two jails will now qualify. Recently, Rodrigo Salido began the process of enrolling in Medi-Cal, California's version of Medicaid, at a clinic, Healthy Oakland. He got a preliminary check up there, but once he gets his card will be able to visit a primary care doctor and see specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">Men and women involved in the criminal justice system are more likely to be sicker than the general population\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> with higher rates of diabetes, hypertension, depression, mood disorders and alcohol and drug addiction. Many have spent years -- perhaps their entire adult livens -- without health insurance and have medical conditions that must be stabilized when they’re incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">“They come to us in bad shape, and we get them as good as possible,” said Richard Lucia, the undersheriff for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">At Santa Rita jail in Dublin, one of the largest detention facilities in the United States, the pharmacy dispenses some 350,000 prescription drugs each month and spends $28 million each year on medical and mental health services. But because recidivism rates are so high in Alameda County -- two out of three inmates re-offend -- the jails’ medical clinics often end up re-stabilizing the same inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">“They leave and they get in bad shape again,” said Lucia. “And they come back to us, and we fix them up again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UU6ZFN9Tx6xh-skXCuRHCDpQ&v=rpOwkAsXXHM\">Former inmates stand to gain Medicaid under expansion\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">The churning of sick offenders costs the county when inmates are in custody -- but it also strains public hospital budgets when they’re released. “When they do need care they come to our emergency department. They cost us between $600 and $800 a visit,” said Briscoe, the county health director. “The cost drivers on our system are intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">The Medicaid expansion, county officials contend, offers a rare opportunity to connect men and women with criminal records to ongoing medical and mental health services, and to directly reimburse the county’s general fund for medical care outside of correctional facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">While it remains against federal law to use Medicaid to pay for day-to-day medical care for inmates, the program, funded by federal and state dollars, will cover hospital stays longer than 24 hours. Those longer hospital visits often involve costly and complicated surgeries, and the county estimates it could save $3 to $5 million a year in off-site hospital care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">“That would shift the cost, essentially, from the county to the state or to the federal government,” said Undersheriff Lucia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">Over the last few months, a constellation of Alameda County agencies, including the sheriff’s office, public health and social services, have been feverishly working to create new protocols that will automatically enroll all eligible inmates into Medi-Cal. Other enrollment efforts are underway in Contra Costa, San Francisco, Solano and Lassen counties, and in Cook County, Illinois, the state of Washington and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">The bureaucratic and technical challenges are immense: archaic information technology platforms must be re-tooled to share data with other county systems; arrested individuals often give false information about their marriage status, number of children, home address and income, foiling Medi-Cal eligibility background checks; and labor union rules permit only certain county workers to approve Medicaid applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">Overcoming those obstacles is a priority, Alameda county officials said, not only because of the potential cost savings, but also because the Medi-Cal expansion offers a solid chance at reducing the county’s dismal recidivism rate. Several studies have shown that ex-inmates who have access to health care when they leave jail, especially mental health and substance abuse counseling, are less likely to re-offend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">Still, a Medi-Cal card is no panacea for troubled lives. “You can’t treat away the problems that face poor communities,” said Briscoe, the county health director. “It’s about a good job. It’s about a sense of belonging. It’s about a place to sleep, but healthcare can be a tool for social justice if it’s delivered effectively and creatively, and that’s why the Medicaid expansion is such a great opportunity for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news organization covering health care policy and politics. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Don Thompson, Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has spent billions of dollars and endured years of federal lawsuits to improve conditions in its state prisons, but the problems it has been trying to correct are now trickling down to local governments as county jails deal with thousands of additional inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law firms advocating for inmates' rights have sued or threatened lawsuits against a handful of California counties because of Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to send lower-level offenders to local jails instead of state prisons as a way to comply with a federal court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77734\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/09/disabled-inmates-suffer-in-shift-to-county-jails/jail-monical-lam-cir/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77734\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-77734\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/jail-monical-lam-cir-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Fresno jail inmates. (Monica Lam/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno jail inmates. (Monica Lam/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits allege the subpar conditions that led to legal actions against the state's prison system — overcrowding, poor medical and dental care, inadequate mental health treatment — are repeating themselves at the county level. They note that jails designed for short-term stays are now being flooded with thousands of new inmates, many of whom are serving long-term sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside County is the latest to be sued and will be served with the legal papers on Tuesday, attorneys say. Fresno County is trying to negotiate a settlement to a lawsuit filed shortly after Brown's realignment plan took effect in October 2011. Alameda County was sued in November, and Monterey County is expecting to be sued.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a masterful stroke by Governor Brown to shift all the state's prison problems to county jails,\" Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His jail has become so crowded that he set out to buy triple-stacked bunk beds to handle the flood of inmates. Then a nearby state prison donated surplus beds it had been using when prison crowding there was at its worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ironically, the state of California gave us triple bunks they no longer need,\" Miller said. The stacking of inmate beds in state prisons was one of the conditions that persuaded federal judges to order a drastic reduction in the prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Warner, the California State Sheriffs' Association's legislative director, said counties are concerned they will be exposed to the same liabilities under Brown's so-called realignment plan that the state has spent billions of dollars trying to solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They had problems before, but realignment makes it worse because people are spending more time in jail,\" said Don Specter, director of the nonprofit Berkeley-based Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of February, more than 1,100 inmates serving sentences of five years or more were in jails designed for stays of a year or less, and that number is expected to grow in the years ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prison Law Office's lawsuit against Riverside County claims that medical care is so poor in its jails that some of its 4,000 inmates go months without seeing a doctor. When they do, the lawsuit contends they receive only cursory medical exams, inadequate follow-up and are rarely referred to specialists even when outside care is clearly needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an example, the suit notes the case of a female inmate who entered the Riverside County Jail with Stage 4 colon cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody paid attention to her complaints that the cancer had returned,\" said Sara Norman, the lead attorney filing the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside County Sheriff Stanley Sniff said funding for jail mental health and medical services was cut during the recession but was being restored when Brown's realignment law took effect, flooding the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates who previously would have been sent to state prisons now fill about a quarter of the county's jail beds, forcing the early release of less-serious offenders. The county cannot keep up even with alternative custody programs such as tracking detainees with GPS-linked ankle bracelets, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have more and more of these special circumstances we never had to deal with,\" Sniff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prison Law Office's lawsuit against Fresno County alleges that its inmates are routinely denied treatment for physical or mental illness or dental problems, and are vulnerable to attacks from other inmates because of the jail's poor design and lack of staffing. Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said she could not discuss conditions because of the settlement talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County has inadequate facilities and programs for inmates who use wheelchairs, are blind or have other disabilities, or are mentally ill, said Michael Bien, whose San Francisco-based firm is considering a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal Services for Prisoners with Children sued Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern last fall over his jail's treatment of disabled inmates, with both sides blaming the increase in disabled prisoners entering the jail since realignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, you can't just knock down a wall and make handicapped-accessible cells. It takes time,\" said Alameda County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To comply with the federal lawsuits, state spending on inmate medical, dental and mental health care has more than doubled over the last decade to a projected $2.3 billion this fiscal year. The state also has spent billions of dollars on new medical facilities and equipment, while the number of prison medical, mental health and dental workers more than doubled over six years, to 12,200 in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials decided California could not comply with the federal court orders simply by building more prisons, so under Brown's direction decided to sentence lower-level offenders to county jails. Those convicted of crimes that are considered serious, violent or sexual still go to state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties are receiving about $865 million to help with jail operations under realignment this fiscal year, an amount that is expected to exceed $1 billion next year. Given the number of new inmates, some sheriffs are questioning whether that will be enough, especially if lawsuits force them to spend even more so conditions meet constitutional standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_82027\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Scout_flying.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-82027\" title=\"Scout_flying\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Scout_flying-300x199.jpg\" alt='Aeryon Labs submitted a bid to Alameda County to purchase this \"Scout\" surveillance drone. (Courtesy Aeryon Labs)' width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aeryon Labs submitted a bid to Alameda County to purchase this \"Scout\" surveillance drone. (Courtesy Aeryon Labs)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Board of Supervisors was set to consider a request from Sheriff Gregory Ahern to approve the purchase of a drone for his department on Tuesday morning. But at the last minute, the sheriff voluntarily pulled the request from the agenda. Ahern says his decision to push the discussion to next month has nothing to do with privacy advocates' concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates including ACLU of Northern California are breathing a tentative sigh of relief though. Host Stephanie Martin \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/12/04/112168/alameda_sheriff_retracts_request_for_drone?category=bay+area\" target=\"_blank\">talked\u003c/a> with them about why the sheriff's original request to the supervisors concerned her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is an edited transcript of KQED's conversation with Ahern about his drone request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephanie Martin, KQED:\u003c/strong> I understand that you had an agenda request today on the Board of Supervisors’ agenda, and it was something like item number 66. Some privacy experts said that it was kind of buried in there and they were concerned about it. 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And a safe route both in and out of an area. We could also use this unmanned areal system for apprehension of violent felons and we told them we’d use it during events where people are trying to flee from law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin:\u003c/strong> Now the ACLU has obtained documents that say you want the drone for something called intelligence and information sharing and dissemination, is that correct?\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahern:\u003c/strong> That is correct, but the information and intelligence gathering would be during a natural disaster or a terrorist attack. Say for instance this area where we live had an Oakland Berkley Hills fire, or had an earthquake called a Loma Prieta, or a storm like we had this weekend. 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And anyone that suggests we would do so is inaccurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin:\u003c/strong> What should the county do make sure that citizens understand that and know that there are limits to how you use drones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahern:\u003c/strong> Well drones have a negative connotation. First of all, we’re trying to buy something about the size of a laptop. It has very strict limitations, [it] can fly about 400 feet in the air and has to fly within line of sight with the operators, [this] is one of the units we’re looking at. So that has a great deal of restrictions to it, along with the limitations. But we’d never use it for anything involving civilian surveillance. And I’ve agreed to put that in our policy, it would be written and it’s also, I believe, it’s in the requirements for the operator to be certified that they understand those privacy rights and how sensitive it is to our entire community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin:\u003c/strong> State Senator Alex Padilla has just introduced a bill to regulate drones in California. 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They haven’t spoken to me about my intentions and they’ve made inferences that I don’t think are fair. But I have told the people I’m talking to and my agency and the politicians that are aware of what we are doing, what our capabilities are what our limitations and restrictions are and that we follow our policy and procedures in that vein. And we have prior history of following our procedures in that we are accredited in at least five other disciplines. 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