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California DOC Medical Receiver’s Initial On-The-Job Impression: “Conditions Disgraceful”

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2007 by John Dannenberg published in Prison Legal News February, 2007, page 30
Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect. Location: California.
California DOC Medical Receiver's Initial On-The-Job Impression: "Conditions Disgraceful"

by John E. Dannenberg

In his first bi-monthly accounting to his boss (U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson), California's Prison health-care Receiver ("CPR") Bob Sillen concluded that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) health-care situation was even worse than ...

 

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