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California DOC Ordered to Comply with Overdue Suicide Prevention Measures
Loaded on March 15, 2007
by Marvin Mentor
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2007, page 39
On February 13, 2006, The U.S. District Court (E.D. Cal.) entered a remedial Stipulation and Order to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to force CDCR to implement the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) policy that the court had previously ordered on June 9, 2005. CDCR?s failure to comply with …
Filed under:
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides.
Location:
California.
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