Wellpath, a for-profit company, is facing over 1,500 lawsuits nationwide for deaths and other tragedies inside jails.

Last year, the Legal Aid Society, Disability Rights Advocates, and Winston & Strawn LLP filed a class action lawsuit against DOCCS, accusing the department of violating HALT by holding people with ...

California officials initially said in August that they would not oppose a receivership for the mental health program provided that the receiver was also Kelso, saying then that federal control “has ...

To do that, Mueller is naming a federal “receiver-nominee” to develop an oversight plan for psychiatric services ... in on California’s staffing for inmate mental health care and lagging ...

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It’s unclear how long that could take. Last year there were 32 homicides in state lockups, according to the California Correctional Health Care Services.

A recent study alleges California uses federal funds for healthcare for undocumented immigrants ... to fund illegal immigrants and long-term care (LTC) for the wealthy." "This scheme enriches ...