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The latest action in a long‐standing federal class‐action lawsuit over a lack of mental health services in California prisons will require state corrections officials to launch a pilot program for inmates with personality disorders by late summer. The case now known as Coleman v. Newsom is approaching the 30th anniversary of the initial 1995 ruling that California had violated the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment by offering inadequate care to inmates with serious mental illness.
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