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San Quentin Under The Microscope
The short program highlights the immense challenges faced in delivering adequate medical care at San Quentin, given the facility’s age, overcrowding, lack of sufficient staffing, space and supplies.
Receiver Details Substantial Progress Addressing Prison Medical System Crisis
A new emergency facility for San Quentin’s approximately 5,200 inmates is one concrete example of the Receivership’s accomplishments. Sillen and Warden Robert Ayers opened the new Triage and Treatment Area at San Quentin last week.
Receiver Releases Plan of Action For Constitutional Care
It is a health care document, not a fact-finding report. It delineates long-term goals for the prison medical care system as well as specific projects that will be undertaken in the next two years.
Receiver Announces Coordination With Other Federal Class Action Cases Among Top Priorities For Prison System Clean Up
Sillen will join with court officials representing cases on mental health and dental care and conditions for disabled inmates – all areas, like medical care, where federal judges have found California’s prisons unconstitutional.
Receiver Raises Prison Physician Salaries
California prisons have a 20 percent vacancy rate statewide for primary care providers (physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants), the most recent available data show.
Receiver’s Changes To Prison Medical Care Save California Taxpayers Millions
In nursing, the conversion of Medical Technical Assistant (MTA) positions to Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN) will reap state savings of approximately $39 million, in the first year alone.
Receiver Announces Next Steps To Improve Prison Medical Care, Medical Bed Expansion
Robert Sillen, court-appointed Receiver of the state’s prison medical care system, announced today several next steps in the effort to bring medical care in California’s 33 prisons up to constitutional standards.
Receiver Moves To Raise Salaries For Prison Medical Staff
The Receivership is the result of a 2001 class action lawsuit that found the medical care in California’s 33 prisons violates the Eighth Amendment, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
Judge Grants Receiver’s Request To Raise Salaries For Prison Medical Staff
The salary adjustments will deliver increases ranging from 5 to 64 percent over time for critical health care positions, bringing their salaries closer in line with those paid at University of California hospitals.
Receiver Releases First Report On California Prison Medical Care
Robert Sillen, court-appointed Receiver, released his first report to the federal court,on the restructuring and development of a constitutionally adequate medical care system for inmate patients in California’s prisons.