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Is when was that number presented to you by the sheriff . This was when the comptroller forecast was released. The 2015 forecast that estimated bed need between 120 and 393. We previously installed 512 beds. What we did with that, we took out two pods. Hes pod had 64 beds in each pod. Taking out 128 was almost half of the floor. We were able to reduce that to 384 to still fit within it. The comptroller gave a range of 120 . Did you do an estimate for what the cost would be if it was 120 . Well, we did the cost for 256 beds. Which was midrange. I think from the Sheriffs Department, even the he ...

Human traffickers are preying on young people in deprived areas, taking them to cities where they are forced into labor or prostitution. Trafficking is a very profitable business. It is a round 50 billion in profits every year. By the underground operations of this crime. Reporter the situation deteriorated after typhoon haiyan struck the philippines in november 2013. The typhoon was one of the most powerful in history, with wind speeds reaching more than 320 kilometers per hour. The storm killed more than 6,000 people and destroyed around 1 million homes. Human traffickers swept into the disa...

In the district. And a onesentence question. Does the work they do in prison, does that count towards medicare . Social security, medicare. No, it does not. There is a statutory prohibition wow. For medicare paying for any Services Provided behind bars. Thst also a statutory provision that if youre on parole or probation, you cannot receive medicare benefit. On the medicaid side, theres something known as the inmate exception, which goes back again to the original finding of medicaid, which states if youre an inmate of a Public Institution as the exact statutory language, you cannot receive me...

To treat. The challenge has been the Regulatory Framework in a postAffordable Care act world that limits our treatment. I want to make it clear that this is a bipartisan issue. Governor perry, governor deal of georgia, theyve been going out and promoting treatment of criminogen criminogenic behavior rather than incarceration. What changes is states who have enrolled in the Affordable Care act is to scale this at a level a state governor cannot necessarily do. Thank you very much. Well turn next to debra rowe. Thank you, ed. All right. Good afternoon. During my i witnessed the disheartening mal...

They have several prisons within our state that take it so that the cost for that does not come out of our per diem there. So, again, heres our creativity. As you heard, i have a long history with managed Care Organizations and whether you like them or dont or whatever, its the world we live in and they are successful. So some of the principles that those managed Care Organizations have used, we have applied in the department of corrections. The first one being and im very proud of this is called the summer of Health Care Benefits and it is the same document or a similar document that you rece...