Federal Receiver Clark Kelso is releasing four separate reports that address correctional health care facility funding issues raised in the Legislative Analyst Office’s January 30, 2009 report entitled “Judicial and Criminal Justice.”

The results of the audit will be released next Thursday, January 29, 2009. By law, details of the investigation can not be discussed prior to the release of the report on the investigation.

Federal Prison Health Care Receiver, J. Clark Kelso will host a press conference and tour of the Planning Center for the Prison Health Care Construction Program for 10,000 patients.

Federal Receiver J. Clark Kelso and his Lead Attorney, James Brosnahan will be available for comments following the upcoming second hearing of the contempt motion against defendants Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, and State Controller John Chiang.

The Receiver has filed a motion asking that they be held in contempt for failing to fund the Receiver’s construction program.

The construction program is designed to bring the State of California into compliance with the U.S. Constitution by building 10K medical and mental health beds to provide access to basic medical care for California’s chronically ill, injured, aged and/or mentally ill inmates.

For the first time in many, many years, there is genuine reason for some hope that CDCR’s health care system can be fixed.

“We have fully explored and exhausted every avenue for securing this funding in a manner that least affects California’s taxpayers and this year’s budget process…

Federal Receiver J. Clark Kelso issued the following statement today regarding a letter from the Governor’s Legal Affairs Secretary:

The decision also encompasses all aspects of the Order, including exemption from the paragraphs in the Order which direct a reduction in salary for most employees to federal minimum wage levels in order to secure compliance with the California Supreme Court’s decision in White v. Davis.