Pssst ... Don't Tell Anybody
by Bob Walsh
A couple days ago a federal judge released a report on the psych care of prisoners in the CA DOC and the report says that the state is doing a piss-poor state of providing psych care despite years of federal court mandates. (How can it be secret if the judge released it?)
Dr. Michael Golding, head shrink for the system, asserts that the department has deliberately been fudging its reports to the court. Assuming the news article go it right (not always a safe assumption) it APPEARS that the shrink made the report up thru channels within the DOC and then leaked a copy to Judge Kimberly Mueller, who made it public.
At the moment it seems that Judge Mueller believes that the DOC committed a deliberate fraud on the court and is setting up hearings, at which Dr. Golding will testify.
One of the chief incidents related is a psychotic female prisoner, who allegedly went on screaming jags every 15 minutes or so for about four hours. Nobody contacted the on-call psychiatrist and she received no medication. During this cluster-fuck the prisoner popped out her own eyeball and swallowed it. Gross.
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