2009 Senate Bill 560 (Clarify prisoner health care cost allocation )

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Introduced by Sen. Valde Garcia (R) on May 12, 2009, to establish that if medical care or treatment is provided to an individual in the physical custody of a local law enforcement agency or the state Department of Corrections, the cost is the responsibility of the whichever entity has custody when the care is provided.
- Referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 12, 2009.

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1) Re: 2009 Senate Bill 560 (Clarify prisoner health care cost allocation ) [by shearwater on May 20, 2009]

Why is this issue being raised at this time? People who comit crimes deserve one thing . . . to be removed from society so that they no longer are able to hurt others. As for health care, this should not be a cost allocated to the state. Criminals have already cost the state too much money. The figure that it costs about $51,000 a year to house and care for criminals is astonishing and perhaps symptomatic because it reflects on Michigan society in general. This tells me that Michigan has a large population of dysfunctional families that produce these social misfits.

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2) 2009 Senate Bill 560 (Clarify prisoner health care cost allocation ) [by admin on January 1, 2001]
Introduced in the Senate on May 12, 2009

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