Report rips California prison psychiatric care, cites case of inmate who ate her eyeball

California’s chief prison psychiatrist has issued a scathing report on management of mental health care in the prisons, saying officials are misrepresenting the care given to thousands of prisoners and are jeopardizing the health of inmates — including a woman who, in a horrifying 2017 incident, pulled out her own eye and swallowed it.

“A large majority of patients are not getting psychiatric care when scheduled or otherwise when they need it,” Dr. Michael Golding said in a 161-page report to a federal judge in Sacramento who oversees the prison mental health system.