Yesterday, a federal judge ordered the state to come up with a plan to provide long term psychiatric care to mentally ill prisoners on death row. U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton called the current level of care inadequate.
For more on this, we caught up with reporter Paige St. John of the LA Times.
California judge orders improved care for mentally ill death row inmates
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