From The Sacramento Bee:
The chief psychiatrist for California’s prison system is accusing state officials of providing inaccurate and misleading data to a federal court and to lawyers for prison inmates fighting to improve psychiatric care inside state prisons, according to court documents.
Dr. Michael Golding compiled a “lengthy, detailed report” that inmate attorneys say contains “serious allegations” that data reported to the court overseeing a long-running case involving medical and mental health care inside California prisons “is inaccurate and has been presented in a materially misleading way,” court documents say.
“Dr. Golding’s claims are very serious and, if true, have far reaching implications affecting almost every aspect of this case,” lawyers for the inmates said in documents filed in U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller’s court in Sacramento.
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