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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., O R D E R

Defendants.

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The draft version of the Special Master’s 16th report on 

compliance contained a recommendation that the defendants be

required to develop within 30 days a plan for the enhancement of

compensation paid to California Department of Corrections and

Rehabilitation (CDCR) mental health clinicians and clinical

supervisors to make their salaries competitive with comparable

positions in the private sector and/or comparable categories of

CDCR’s medical staff. The draft also set forth the reasons in

some detail. Subsequently, the court has received various

comments and an amicus brief, and finally, the court has received

the special master’s final report.

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By virtue thereof, the court now orders as follows:

1) The defendants shall assess and develop a plan to meet

the issues created by the disparity in pay for DMH clinicians

providing mental health services to CDCR inmates in CDCR

institutions and those providing services to CDCR inmates in all

other DMH institutions. The defendants shall submit to the court

the product of such an assessment and a corresponding plan within

60 days of adoption of this order.

2) The assessment shall set forth the experience of DMH in

filling its relevant vacancies over the last three (3) years.

3) The defendants shall submit monthly reports to the

Special Master on staffing and staffing vacancies in all DMH

hospitals with programs providing mental health services to CDCR

inmates until such time as the pay differential issue has been

resolved.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: February 6, 2007.

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