Newsom

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 RALPH COLEMAN, et al., No. 2:90-cv-0520 KJM DB 12 Plaintiffs, ORDER 13 v. 14 | GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 17 On December 22, 2023, the Special Master filed a monitoring report on the delivery of 18 | mental health care in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Enhanced 19 | Outpatient Programs (EOP), as part of his comprehensive thirtieth round of monitoring in this 20 | action. ECF No. 8095 (30C Report). The 30C Report reviews EOP care at the 15 prison 21 | institutions where CDCR operates EOP programs. /d. at 11.'! The Special Master makes 22 | numerous findings of inadequate mental health care, attributing the inadequacy largely to ongoing 23 | inadequate mental health staffing levels, “particularly among primary clinicians,” throughout 24 | CDCR’s Mental Health Services Delivery System (MHSDS). /d. at 137-140. Because 25 | “[d]efendants’ ongoing noncompliance with the Court’s…