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State Asks Judge to End Oversight of Prison Mental Health Care

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California prison officials will ask a federal judge on Wednesday to end his oversight of the mental healthcare system in the state's prisons. The judge appointed a special master more than a decade ago. Since then, California has spent billions of dollars to improve psychiatric care for inmates as the suicide rate has still gone up in recent years.

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