California Prison Health Receiver’s Role to End, Judge Says
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The court-appointed receivership of the health-care system at California prisons should be ended given the progress that has been made, a federal judge said in an order seeking comments on how to terminate the program.
“The court encourages the parties to attempt to reach agreement on the post-receivership phase of this case, which the court currently contemplates will consist of a period of oversight to ensure that defendants can, in the absence of a receivership, sustain the progress that has been and will be achieved,” U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson in San Francisco said in today’s decision.