The Brief
- A judge in Sacramento put CDCR under a rare receivership as it pertains to its mental health programs.
- The judge appointed Colette Peters, former director of the BOP, as the receiver.
- Peters shut down FCI Dublin last year after a federal judge in Oakland named a special master over that prison.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A federal judge in Sacramento has put control of California prisons’ mental health programs into a rare receivership, overseen by former Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters.
U.S. District Senior Judge Kimberly Mueller in the Eastern District of California ruled that Peters, who left the BOP the day President Donald Trump took office, should develop an oversight plan for psychiatric services for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Three prior candidates, for varying reasons, did not want the job, the Los Angeles Times reported.…