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Plan for state to regain prison control
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday outlined a plan for California to end nearly a decade of federal control over its prison health care system. U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson of San Francisco acted after a court-appointed overseer reported that conditions have substantially improved since Henderson appointed a receiver to run the medical system in 2006. Each of the state’s 34 prisons must pass an inspection before they can be returned to state control, Henderson said.