May 23, 2011 “By affirming that prison overcrowding is the primary cause of the troubled prison health care system and ordering the state to implement the court order to reduce prison overcrowding without delay, the Supreme Court decision has provided the state with... Read MoreRead more about Federal Receiver’s Response to Supreme Court’s Brown v. Plata Decision

SACRAMENTO (May 5, 2011) – Federal Receiver J. Clark Kelso announced today that efforts to meet federal court mandates to improve medical care in California’s prisons are working with the release of the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) reports on round two... Read MoreRead more about CA Prison Medical Care Showing Signs of Improvement In Round Two Inspections