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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RALPH COLEMAN, et al., No. 2:90-cv-0520 KJM DB Plaintiffs, ORDER v. GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 On December 22, 2023, the Special Master filed a monitoring report on the delivery of mental health care in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Enhanced Outpatient Programs (EOP), as part of his comprehensive thirtieth round of monitoring in this action. ECF No. 8095 (30C Report). The 30C Report reviews EOP care at the 15 prison institutions where CDCR operates EOP programs. /d. at 11.'! The Special Master makes numerous findings of inadequate mental health care, attributing the inadequacy largely to ongoing 23 inadequate mental health staffing levels, “particularly among primary clinicians,” throughout CDCR’s Mental Health Services Delivery System (MHSDS). /d. at 137-140. Because 25 “[d]efendants’ ongoing noncompliance with the Court’s…