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Prisoner Co-payments for Health Care Services Eliminated in California
Loaded on Jan. 9, 2020
by Chad Marks
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2020, page 54
Filed under:
Medical.
Location:
California.
by Chad Marks
In 1994, California lawmakers passed a bill that charged prisoners a $3.00 fee when they visited the infirmary for medical or dental care in city and county jails.
Twenty-five years later, on September 10, 2019, the California senate voted in favor of Assembly Bill …
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