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Mental Cases Warehoused in IMU
Loaded on July 15, 1990
by Mark LaRue
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1990, page 3
Mental Cases Warehoused In IMU
Filed under:
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Washington.
By Mark LaRue
You would not believe how they are running the Intensive Management Unit (IMU) here at Walla Walla. The tier I am on is filled with nuts who loud talk day and night. Mental health staff openly admit that these people are housed …
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More from this issue:
- Prison Population Rises 12.1%
- BOP Denies Medical Treatment
- Pleading Supervisory Liability
- Prisoner Advisors Reinstated
- Civil Rights Suit For Damages Against State Prison Officials In Individual Capacities
- County Fined $500,000 for Deliberate Indifference
- Mental Cases Warehoused in IMU, by Mark LaRue
- Bankruptcy Declaration Voids Court Ordered Restitution
- Fascism, Another Step Nearer
- Summary Judgment on Retaliation
- We Are All Prisoners, by Ed Mead
- Indonesia Murders Long Term Political Prisoners
- Washington Detains More Kids
- "The Prison Issue"
- "Captive Voice"
- Capital Punishment, by Lawrence Boulton
- Small Fry, by Dan Pens
- Vietnam MIAs in Perspective
- The Fortress Economy: The Economic Role of the US Prison System
More from Mark LaRue:
- Tread Carefully With Sex Offenders, Jan. 15, 1991
- Walls Gets "Special Needs Unit", Oct. 15, 1990
- Death Row Abolished, Oct. 15, 1990
- Mental Cases Warehoused in IMU, July 15, 1990
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