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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

EDMUND G. BROWN, JR., et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:90-cv-0520 KJM DAD P 

ORDER 

On June 17, 2015, the Special Master filed a report on his expert’s report on suicides 

completed in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) between July 

1, 2012 and December 31, 2012, ECF No. 5324, accompanied by the expert’s report, ECF No. 

5325. The Special Master requests that the court adopt in full his expert’s report. Neither party 

has filed any objection to the expert’s report or the Special Master’s request that it be adopted in 

full. That will be the order of the court. 

 The court notes that the references to training in the report before the court are based on 

events that predate defendants’ current suicide prevention training obligations for both clinical 

and custody staff. In January 2015, the Special Master reported to the court on his expert’s audit 

of suicide prevention practices in CDCR prisons. ECF Nos. 5258, 5259. That report contained 

findings concerning training of both clinical and correctional staff and recommendations to 

correct inadequacies in that training. See ECF No. 5259 at 5-9. Under this court’s February 3, 

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2015 order, ECF No. 5271, defendants are required to adopt those recommendations and work 

with the Special Master in the Suicide Prevention Management Workgroup to implement them. 

In addition, based on information provided by the Special Master, the court anticipates 

that his expert’s reports on completed CDCR suicides in 2013 will be filed with the court by the 

end of January 2016, and the report for 2014 will be filed with the court by the end of March 

2016. 

In accordance with the above and good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that 

the Special Master’s Expert’s Report on Suicides Completed In the California Department of 

Corrections and Rehabilitation July 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012, ECF No. 5325, is adopted in 

full. 

DATED: September 23, 2015. 

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