Prison health workers are among the best-paid public employees. Why are so many jobs vacant?

Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fill vacant medical and mental health positions at prisons and state hospitals, California has little to show for it, according to a new report from ...
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California Spent Millions on Prison Health Staffing. Vacancies Kept Growing

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 ...