California Prisons and the Mentally Ill - Eleven Years Later
Mentally ill patients comprise an astonishing 20 percent of California’s prisoners. Their care is presently under the supervision of Judge Lawrence Karlton, who found in his 1995 ruling that treatment of the mentally ill in the state’s prisons was so poor it violated prisoners' constitutional rights to adequate care.
Now, more than a decade later, are things getting better? Not really, writes MASON STOCKSTILL of the Ontario Daily Bulletin as part of a four-part series called Criminal Neglect.