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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 April 28, 2005, the special master filed a report on suicides completed in the

California Department of Corrections (CDC) in calendar year 2003. The report contains five

recommendations for specific action by defendants. Neither party has filed objections to the

report or its recommendations. Good cause appearing, the special master’s recommendations

will be the order of the court.

In accordance with the above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. Within thirty days from the date of this order defendants shall submit to the

special master a plan for dealing with the hazard of large-mesh ventilation screens in

administrative segregation cells in which mental health caseload inmates are housed. 

2. Within sixty days from the date of this order defendants shall develop and

implement a policy that establishes clearly and unequivocally a requirement for custody staff to

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provide immediate life support, if trained to do so, until medical staff arrive to initiate or

continue life support measures, irrespective of whether the obligation to do so is part of the

particular custody staff member’s duty statement.

3. The defendants shall provide the special master with a summary description of

the methods and outcomes of all investigations whenever the Suicide Report or suicide review

process refers any member of the mental health, medical or custody staff, initially judged to have

been responsible for some act of incompetence, malfeasance or negligence, to another

investigatory and/or disciplinary channel. 

4. Within ninety days from the date of this order the Health Care Services

division of the CDC shall develop as part of the suicide review process a procedure to ensure the

implementation of remedies described or promised in institutional responses to the

recommendations for corrective action in individual Suicide Reports.

5. Within sixty days from the date of this order defendants shall develop a plan

for the initiation of a process for tracking the suicidal history of inmates in CDC’s mental health

caseload in the Mental Health Tracking System and/or any successor management information

system used by the department

DATED: June 9, 2005.

/s/Lawrence K. Karlton 

LAWRENCE K. KARLTON

SENIOR JUDGE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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