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CDCR healthcare officials outline pay differentials, hiring events and challenges responding to Coleman class-action oversight
Summary
California Correctional Healthcare Services described a suite of recruitment and retention steps tied to Coleman litigation remedies: one-time and ongoing pay differentials, referral bonuses, regional hiring events and classification changes to allow marriage and family therapists and professional clinical counselors to work in prisons.
Andrea Carter, Assistant Deputy Director for California Correctional Healthcare Services (CCHCS), told the Senate subcommittee the agency created three pay differentials in response to a court order tied to the Coleman class-action oversight. The measures are currently on hold because of a court-ordered stay.
Carter said the differentials, established October 31, 2024, include: a one-time $10,000 recruitment-and-retention payment for eligible mental-health clinician classifications (pay differential 501); a monthly recruitment-and-retention differential (pay differential 502) that pays $5,000 or $20,000…
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