Aug. 7, 2024
Long-running prison mental health litigation seeks overseer
J. Clark Kelso would monitor the use of $100 million in fines against the prisons department.
The litigants in a 34-year-old case about prison mental health care asked that J. Clark Kelso be appointed to oversee the use of more than $100 million in fines against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Rob Bonta replied to a separate complaint challenging the constitutionality of a law that makes it a felony for an ex-convict to be "adjacent" to a prison.
Kelso is a familiar name to many in Sacramento. He...
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