Prisoners who qualify — excluding inmates sentenced to death or life without parole — can be placed in a community health ...

California has ceased its court-ordered medical parole program, instead deciding to keep critically ill prisoners within the ...

And according to court documents, California has never had enough mental health staff to provide an acceptable minimum level of care in the ... a lack of psychiatric services at Pelican State ...

Kyle Buis, a California Correctional Health Care Services spokesperson, characterized the program as “on pause” as patients return to in-prison facilities and as officials anticipate ...