Criminal,
Civil Rights
Jan. 9, 2020
Judge overseeing state prisons case issues order to deal with increased suicides
California prisons reported 38 suicides last year, the most since the department began tracking the statistic in 1990, which is the year the litigation over prison mental health care started.
A federal judge overseeing a 30-year-old case on prisoner mental health care said in her latest order the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation needs to update its suicide prevention practices.
The issue could hardly be timelier. California prisons reported 38 suicides last year, the most since the department began tracking the statistic in 1990. That also happens to be the year the case started. Cole...
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