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Ohio Mental Health Decree Entered
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1995, page 12
A far reaching consent decree governing the delivery of mental health care to Ohio prisoners was entered on 10 July 1995. The consent decree resulted from a §1983 suit filed in 1993 and certified as a class action on June 7, 1995. The prisoner plaintiffs were represented by Robert B. ...
Filed under:
Medication,
Staffing,
Settlements,
Consent Decrees,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Involuntary Treatment/Drugging.
Location:
Ohio.
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