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Abstract: 

On October 11, 2018, a Sacramento Bee story by Sam Stanton exposed serious problems with mental health care in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that stunned me. Stanton wrote that the chief psychiatrist for the CDCR is accusing state officials of providing significantly false data to the federal court, federal monitors, and lawyers for the inmates regarding the care of inmates with mental illness confined in California’s prisons. The charge isn’t a slip or two, or even “puffing” to sort of look good. The state has claimed that it sees inmate-patients in timely fashion about 96 percent of the time when, in fact, charges Dr. Michael Golding, the actual frequency is in the range of 20-30 percent of the time. This article reproduces sections of the executive summary of the “Golding Report” filed October 31, 2018.

Keywords: Resetting-The-Clock Strategy; Stretching-The-EOP-Maximum-Interval; Biasing-The-Sample; Misrepresenting Staffing Ratios

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.