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The ongoing harm "caused by these high vacancy rates is as clear today as it was thirty years ago and the harm persists despite multiple court orders requiring defendants to reduce those rates," she added. The contempt finding "is deeply flawed, and it does not reflect reality," said Diana Crofts-Pelayo, a Newsom spokesperson. "Amid a nationwide shortage of mental health therapists, the administration has led massive and unprecedented efforts to expand care and recruit and retain mental health care professionals."
As part of her tentative contempt ruling in March, Mueller ordered Newsom personally, along with five of his top state officials, to read testimony by prison mental health employees describing the ongoing problem during a trial last fall. "Fundamentally, the overall record reflects defendants are following a 'business as usual' approach to hiring, recruitment and retention that does very little if anything to transform the bureaucracy within which the hiring practices are carried out," Mueller wrote.
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