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Tags Acute inpatient psychiatric care at San Quentin State Prison

Tag: acute inpatient psychiatric care at San Quentin State Prison

Top doc blasts California prison health care

The California department of prisons threatened, muzzled and defamed a top medical officer at San Quentin for blowing the whistle on its shoddy mental health care, the doctor claims in court. Dr. Christopher S. Wadsworth, former chief psychiatrist and medical director of San Quentin State Prison, claims the state and 10 prison officials retaliated against him for a March 2014 memo on constitutionally inadequate conditions that continue today.