Sunday's New York Times has a piece entitled "California Is Facing More Woes In Prisons," containing this excerpt:
In a ruling on Thursday calling for an investigation of prison-based mental health facilities, a federal judge cited the “denial of basic necessities, including clean underwear,” along with doctor shortages and treatment delays. And in a footnote, the judge, Lawrence K. Karlton, chided the state for arguing for an end to federal oversight.
“Given the gravity of the evidence in this hearing,” Judge Karlton wrote in the footnote, a motion to terminate the case “takes on the character of a condition in which the defendants have simply divorced themselves from reality.”