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| Lawyers argue California prison mental health care control |
| By abclocal.go.com - Nannette Miranda |
| Published: 03/28/2013 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KABC) -- A huge blow was delivered to Gov. Jerry Brown's lawsuit to terminate federal receivership of the mental health care system in California's prisons. The judge says he's tempted to throw out the case because of what he calls "serious ethical violations." State lawyers apparently gave expert witnesses on their side secret tours of the prisons and used information from those tours to deem the mental care is now constitutional. "They interviewed our mentally ill clients without our knowledge about the case and then they used the evidence that they gathered when we weren't present against these clients," said Don Specter of the Prison Law Office. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation denies anything was secret. "We did let people know that these tours were occurring," said Jeff Beard, secretary of the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. "There's no intention to hide anything and in fact, if you go in to tour a prison, there's no secrets in jail." Read More. |
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