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Lawmakers call DOC health care 'a crisis' as committee advances oversight bill
Summary
Members described repeated medication lapses, specialist shortages and recent inmate deaths during debate on HB 5567; the Judiciary Committee sent the bill to the floor with amendment A and adopted an oral amendment clarifying payment for judicial outcomes in some proceedings.
House Bill 5567, a bill addressing health-care services in the Department of Correction, received extensive attention in the Judiciary Committee on March 24, 2026, where multiple members described the provision of care to incarcerated people as being ‘‘at a crisis level.’’
Representative Staffstrom, the bill sponsor, opened the discussion by recounting repeated reports that routine medication (for cholesterol,…
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