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Ousted BOP Director Appointed Receiver for CDCR Mental Health Care
Loaded on Oct. 1, 2025
by Chuck Sharman
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2025, page 12
Filed under:
Staffing,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides,
Reporting Requirements,
Inadequate Health Care Facilities.
Location:
California.
by Chuck Sharman
Making good on a 30-year-old threat, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California placed the mental health care system for state prisoners in receivership on August 27, 2025. The Court-appointed Receiver is former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Collette Peters, who …
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