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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RALPH COLEMAN, et al.,

Plaintiffs, No. CIV S-90-0520 LKK JFM P

vs.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER,

et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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On May 9, 2006, the special master filed a report on suicides completed in the

California Department of Corrections in calendar year 2004. Therein, the special master

recommends that defendants be required to

develop by May 31, 2006 a plan for dealing with the escalating

percentage of suicides occurring in administrative segregation

units. The plan must be based on an analysis of the causes for the

increasing rate and, depending on the outcome of the analysis,

provide adequate resources of mental health and/or custody staff,

create sufficient confidential interview space and/or enhance the

quality of mental health services provided in administrative

segregation units.

(Report on Suicides, filed May 9, 2006, at 13.) On May 19, 2006, defendants filed a response to

the report and its recommendation. Defendants have no objection to developing the plan. They

ask that the analysis of causes of the suicide rate be done in collaboration with one or more of

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the special master’s experts. Defendants would like, however, until August 31, 2006 to complete

the plan.

On May 23, 2006, plaintiffs filed a response to the special master’s report and

defendants’ response thereto. Plaintiffs object to giving defendants an additional three months to

complete the plan unless there is a concomitant commitment by defendants to “obtain any

necessary funding to implement elements of their remedial plan in September 2006.” (Plaintiffs’

Response, filed May 23, 2006, at 5.) Plaintiffs also request that defendants be required to

collaborate with plaintiffs and their suicide expert in developing the plan, and that defendants be

directed to include a schedule for implementing the plan that “reflects the urgency of the

escalating suicide rate . . . and the need to address this crisis as an emergency.” (Plaintiffs’

Response, at 7.) 

After further consultation with the special master, and good cause appearing, IT

IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. On or before August 31, 2006, defendants shall develop a plan for dealing with

the escalating percentage of suicides occurring in administrative segregation units. The plan

must be based on an analysis of the causes for the increasing rate and, depending on the outcome

of the analysis, provide adequate resources of mental health and/or custody staff, create

sufficient confidential interview space and/or enhance the quality of mental health services

provided in administrative segregation units.

2. The plan shall include, as appropriate, a budget and implementation schedule

for any policy and procedure changes, staffing or budget augmentation, and, if necessary, include

a mechanism for obtaining mid-year funding on or before September 30, 2006.

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3. Defendants shall collaborate with one or more of the special master’s experts,

with plaintiffs’ counsel, and with plaintiffs’ expert, Lindsay Hayes, to develop the plan required

by this order.

DATED: June 7, 2006.

 

LAWRENCE K. KARLTON

SENIOR JUDGE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

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