Since opening in July, the $840 million California Health Care Facility has been beset by waste, mismanagement and miscommunication between the prison and medical staffs, according to an article on the Los Angeles Times website.
Reports filed by prison staff and inmate-rights lawyers described prisoners left in broken wheelchairs and lying on soiled bedsheets, according to the article.
Prisoner advocates recently quoted nurses who said they could not get latex gloves that fit or adult diapers that didn't leak. The shortages were documented in a report sent to corrections officials in Sacramento.
Even the laundry became a battleground, according to the article.
Over several months, the warden ordered more than 38,000 towels and washcloths for slightly more than 1,300 men — nearly 30 for each patient. Despite this, reports said that inmates were drying off with socks — or not allowed showers at all. Their towels had been thrown away.
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