RBGG represents a class of the more than 34,000 men and women in California’s prison system with serious mental illness (Coleman v. Newsom, 2:90-cv-00520-KJM-DB (E.D. Cal., filed April 23, 1990). On April 15, 2025, the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s order requiring the State to implement its own proposed plan for treating mentally ill patients in California’s prisons with personality disorders, who the State admits it has left without appropriate mental health care for decades. The State has already identified evidence-based treatment modalities appropriate for correctional settings, which can help these patients manage the types of destructive behaviors that can arise when their mental illnesses go untreated. Now that the Ninth Circuit has told the State it must actually implement those treatment protocols, RBGG looks forward to working with the State to roll those programs out throughout California’s prisons and ensure their success. The Court’s opinion is here.