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Federal Judge Finds Alabama DOC Mental Health Care Horrendous, Orders: Start Hiring

Loaded on March 1, 2022 by Jo Ellen Nott published in Prison Legal News March, 2022, page 38
Filed under: Staffing, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides. Location: Alabama.

by Jo Ellen Nott

On December 27, 2021, four years after calling Alabama’s treatment of mentally ill prisoners “horrendously inadequate”—due largely to chronic understaffing—a federal judge issued a new mandate to the state Department of Corrections (DOC), saying in effect: “Start hiring.”

That was a key takeaway from a massive ...

 

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