Reporting on Prison Health Care: A Live Internet Radio Conversation with KPCC's Julie Small

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August 26, 2010

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Prison Health Care: Live Conversation with Julie Small
Thursday, August 26

The show aired at 11 AM PST and is now archived below.

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Covering prison health care is not for the faint of heart: there is little public sympathy for prisoners, getting information is difficult and sources risk retribution. Julie Small, state capitol reporter for Southern California Public Radio and a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellow, deftly navigated those challenges to produce her investigative series, Prison Affliction: Medical Care Inside California's State Prisons. I'll be moderating an BlogTalkRadio conversation with Julie and invite you to join us. Please RSVP here (appreciated but not required).

Small's series began airing on Monday on KPCC and will continue through Friday. You can get a taste for her reporting process and the discoveries she made in her Q&A with ReportingonHealth.

In the meantime, you might want to check out Julie's series so far:

Part One: California's budget woes thwart improvements to prison medicine

 

Part Two: Chino prison sees some improvements in medical care

 

Part 3: California inmates still suffer from lapses in prison medical care

 

Part 4: Vacaville's Central Medical Facility – The 'gold standard' for prison medical care in California

 

Part 5: Fewer improvements planned for prison medical care

 

 

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