August 28, 2010
Judge calls disabled inmate care in California poor
A federal judge says in a sharply worded tentative ruling that California's prison system -- which has two locations in Vacaville -- still does a poor job of identifying and caring for developmentally disabled inmates nine years after the state agreed to improve services.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer's preliminary order, dated Thursday, rejects corrections officials' bid to end court oversight of the 2001 settlement.
To the contrary, he tentatively ordered the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to submit a new plan to improve employee training and to better identify developmentally disabled inmates, saying he doubts the state can correct the problems on its own...
LINK - TheReporter.com
