Governor wanted receivership lifted

by Brian Leubitz

In a major ruling today, after last week’s legal tussle between the administration and lawyers for prisoners rights, Judge Lawrence Karlton rejected the state’s effort to lift the prison health care receivership:

A federal judge today rejected Gov. Jerry Brown’s bid to regain control of the state’s prisons from federal oversight of inmates’ mental health care, ruling that the state has not done enough to improve conditions inside the prisons.

U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton, in a 68-page order, found that “systemic failures persist” in anti-suicide measures and other mental health care needs. (SacBee)

The state will surely try again at the next available opportunity, but the receiver will be sticking around for a while.