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A new Sacramento judge will oversee decades-old mental health case for prisons

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By Don Thompson, Don Thompson
| Abridged by PBS KVIE
The Abridged version: Kimberly Mueller, longtime federal judge in Sacramento and a former City Council member, is retiring, leaving a lingering mental health case to others to oversee. Efforts to fix California's prison mental health system will conservatively take another five to seven years and cost taxpayers a quarter-billion dollars.
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Secret Contract Aims to Upend Landmark California Prison Litigation

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By Don Thompson
| California Healthline Verified
SACRAMENTO — California commissioned an exhaustive study of whether its prisons are providing sufficient mental health care, an effort officials said they could use to try to end a 34-year-old federal lawsuit over how the state treats inmates with mental illness. But corrections officials won’t disclose basic details of the now-stalled study — even the cost to taxpayers for two consulting firms and more than two dozen national experts retained to examine the issue in 2023.
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California may face more than $40M in fines for lapses in prison suicide prevention

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By Don Thompson
| Fresno Bee Verified
California could face more than $40 million in fines after it failed to improve suicide prevention measures in state prisons despite a federal judge’s warning that she would impose financial penalties for each violation. Chief U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller told state officials over a year ago that she would start imposing fines unless they implemented 15 suicide prevention protocols that had been lacking for nearly a decade.
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