Medical parole is starting to emerge in different correction facilities all over the United States. Medical Parole is when a prisoner is “unable to preform activities of basic daily living, and results in the prisoner requiring 24 hour care, and that incapacitation did not exist at the time of the sentencing, shall be granted medical parole (CDCR, 2015)”. Like almost all of the ideas and programs people develop, there are always pro and cons that are brought up. Not everyone is always satisficed there are always those people that do not agree or just focus on pointing out all of the negative factors and none of the positive factors.
One of the main advantages of having medical parole would be the amount of money you would safe per inmate on healthcare. By not having to pay for the expensive healthcare that is required for those prisoners who health is in chronic condition, you would be able to reduce your budget in the correctional facility. It would cut cost tremendously, “California spends more than $11,000 per inmate on healthcare. Texas spends $2,749 per inmate on healthcare” (Cavanaugh, 2015)”. Both of these states have around 150,000-175,000 prisoners. The reason for Texas’s cost being so much lower than California is because Texas “released 170 very sick inmates on medical parole last
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Texas has seen great outcomes with the program, by granting prisoners’ medical parole “Texas is now spending almost a third of what California is spending on healthcare” (Cavanaugh, 2015). In Texas, prisoners who are in very critical condition and can not function on a daily basis without assistance of a nurse. “If granted medical parole, the offender would be assigned a parole agent, and if their condition improves, they can be returned to custody. Medical parole does not apply to prisoners received the death sentence or life in prison with out possibility of parole (CDCR,