As part of our ongoing collaboration, UAPD President Stuart Bussey and staff held a call with Coleman plaintiffs' attorneys last week. The attorneys were able to present a compelling case that CDCR is not providing adequate mental health care, based in part on...
Rosen, Bien, Galvan and Grunfeld, LLP is a legal firm that represents the plaintiffs in Coleman v Brown, which addresses mental health care in California prisons. The original judge in the case ordered that a Special Master be appointed to monitor compliance...
When the telepsychiatry program was first launched by the Department of Corrections, psychiatrists were told that they would not have to cover On-call assignments. The Department then decided to start requiring them to cover on-call assignments. The Department changed...
The Governor's Proposed Budget for the fiscal year 2017-2018 contains language to have the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Correctional Health Care System assume responsibility for psychiatric programs now run under the...
UAPD State-employed doctors have asked whether they have the right to strike alongside SEIU workers this coming Monday (aka sympathy strike). The short answer is no, UAPD-represented doctors do not have the right to engage in a sympathy strike with another union...
Press Release (Oakland) -- On Tuesday the State’s Office of the Inspector General issued a report that gave Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) a failing grade for the medical care it provides to inmates at the Soledad facility. Fifteen years after a lawsuit in which...