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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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Stip. & Proposed Order re: Defs.’ Rev. Long-Range Bed Plan (2:90-cv-00520 LKK JFM PC) 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs,

v. 

EDMUND G. BROWN JR., et al., 

Defendants.

2:90-cv-00520 LKK JFM PC 

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE: 

MODIFICATION OF DEFENDANTS’ 

REVISED LONG-RANGE MENTAL 

HEALTH BED PLAN TO CREATE A 

SENSITIVE NEEDS YARD AT VALLEY 

STATE PRISON FOR INMATES IN AN 

ENHANCED OUTPATIENT PROGRAM 

 On June 12, 2012, Defendants filed a revised bed plan to reflect the changed demand for 

mental health beds associated with, among other things, realignment. (ECF No. 4196.) 

Defendants’ bed plan included converting the Valley State Prison for Women into a male 

institution starting in September 2012. (ECF No. 4196–3 at 3.) This conversion resulted in the 

elimination of designated mental health beds at Valley State Prison. (Id.) 

 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation population trends, however, now 

show a need for Level II Enhanced Outpatient Program-Sensitive Needs Yard beds throughout 

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California 

JONATHAN L. WOLFF

Senior Assistant Attorney General 

JAY C. RUSSELL

Supervising Deputy Attorney General 

DEBBIE J. VOROUS, State Bar No. 166884 

PATRICK R. MCKINNEY, State Bar No. 257644 

Deputy Attorney General 

1300 I Street, Suite 125 

P.O. Box 944255 

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550 

Telephone: (916) 324-5345 

Fax: (916) 324-5205 

E-mail: Debbie.Vorous@doj.ca.gov 

Attorneys for Defendants 

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Stip. & Proposed Order re: Defs.’ Rev. Long-Range Bed Plan (2:90-cv-00520 LKK JFM PC) 

the state. The parties met and conferred regarding the use of Valley State Prison to meet this 

population need, and they agreed that Defendants may convert 192 Level II Sensitive Needs Yard 

beds at Valley State Prison, Facility A, Building 1 to 192 Level II Enhanced Outpatient ProgramSensitive Needs Yard beds. It was further agreed that inmates housed in Facility A, Building 1 

may be housed in small dormitories housing up to six men each. Defendants expect to start the 

conversion from a General Population Sensitive Needs Yard to an Enhanced Outpatient Program 

Sensitive Needs Yard on August 12, 2013, at a rate of 15 inmates per week. Defendants expect to 

immediately activate one-half of Building 1, and to activate the second-half of Building 1 

consistent with population needs. 

 Therefore, the parties, by and through their counsel, stipulate that Defendants may modify 

their revised long-range mental health bed plan and increase the number of mental health beds for 

male inmates by adding 192 Enhanced Outpatient Program beds at Valley State Prison. The 

parties further stipulate that the inmates in the program may be housed in small dormitories 

housing up to six men each. 

 On September 16, 2013, Defendants shall provide Plaintiffs’ counsel with a list of the 

names and numbers of Enhanced Outpatient Program prisoners housed in the Valley State Prison 

Facility A Enhanced Outpatient Program unit as of September 13, 2013. On October 16, 2013, 

Defendants shall provide Plaintiffs’ counsel with a list of the names and numbers of Enhanced 

Outpatient Program prisoners housed in the Valley State Prison Facility A Enhanced Outpatient 

Program unit as of October 14, 2013. 

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The parties have met and conferred with the Coleman Special Master and he is in 

agreement with this stipulation. 

 SO STIPULATED 

 Dated: July 15, 2013 By: /s/ Debbie J. Vorous 

 Debbie J. Vorous 

 Office of the Attorney General 

 Attorneys for Defendants 

 Dated: July 15, 2013 By: /s/ Steve Fama 

 Steve Fama 

 Prison Law Office 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

SO ORDERED 

 The above stipulation is the Order of this Court 

 Dated: July 19, 2013 

 

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