According to an article I read in AlterNet, Montel Johnson is wanted by the State of California.

Montel Johnson requires "total care," according to a court statement submitted this summer by Chicago neurologist Dr. Norman Kohn. "He is severely impaired in speech and communication. His speech is almost unintelligible," the statement reads. "He relies on his mother for communication and decision-making." Indeed, his mother has worked out a system in which she goes through the alphabet and he opens and closes his eyes to try to signal the words he is trying to say. She says she is the only person patient enough to walk him through the process.

Despite all this, California officials are pressing forward to take him back -- and the state of Illinois is cooperating. According to a sworn affidavit by the Chief Legal Counsel for the Illinois Department of Corrections, an "air ambulance company" has already been contacted to arrange the transfer of Johnson to California. On August 5, Judith Harper, Assistant Chief Counsel for the CDCR wrote to James Doran, a lawyer in the Illinois Attorney General's office, to "confirm our conversation this morning" that the CDCR "is expecting that [Johnson] will be returned to California to serve out the sentence imposed on him here."

The California Senate on Friday September 11, 2009 passed a bill that would release 17,000 of the State’s most healthy convicted felons and rejected a plan to release 6,300 of its most infirmed and elderly convicted felons.

I sure would like someone to try and defend these two dumb moves by California officials.

It is not clear if the California authorities have brought Johnson back to California yet. Of course his mother has gone to court to block it but I have not herd any more on this story.

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