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Patients at the Central Coast’s Atascadero State Hospital walk the halls in 2006. Due to COVID, patients have at times been confined to their units, but still mingle in bathrooms, the dining hall and common day rooms. Of the state’s psychiatric hospitals, Atascadero houses the largest number of mentally ill inmates from state prisons. Photo by Peggy Peattie, ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo

Could California’s psych hospitals be ordered to admit inmates with COVID?

by Lee Romney November 18, 2020November 18, 2020

The Department of State Hospitals is facing pressure in federal court to speed up admissions of mentally ill inmates from the COVID-riddled state prison system.

Inmate firefighters, left, battle the Quail Fire burning near Winters, Calif., on Sunday, June 7, 2020. Photo by Noah Berger, AP Photo

As wildfire season looms, California adds 900 firefighters to its crews

by Rachel Becker July 9, 2020July 16, 2020

A sign along Olema Bolinas Road asking visitors to stay away on April 22, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Is California’s lockdown working?

by Emily Hoeven May 18, 2020May 18, 2020

General overall view of coronavirus (COVID-19) testing outside Parkview Community Hospital on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in Riverside, Calif. Photo by Dylan Stewart/Image of Sport via AP

Is the worst yet to come in CA?

by Emily Hoeven May 12, 2020May 11, 2020

A small crowd of beach goers at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on April 7, 2020. California is entering the fourth week of sheltering in place to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

CA readies to reopen

by Emily Hoeven April 14, 2020April 13, 2020

Southern California jails are releasing some low-level inmates early, checking new arrivals for fever and taking other precautions to prevent COVID-19 from taking hold behind bars. (File photo by Jeff Gritchen,Orange County Register/SCNG)

Like a Petri dish for the virus: Tens of thousands of California inmates are at risk

by Nigel Duara April 13, 2020April 13, 2020