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Right to Psychiatric Care Clearly Established
Loaded on July 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1998, page 24
The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that prisoners' right to psychiatric care was clearly established and prison psychiatrists who failed to properly treat a suicidal prisoner were not entitled to qualified immunity from money damages. Anthony Wade was a mentally ill Michigan state prisoner who committed suicide. …
Filed under:
Medical,
Medication,
Qualified Immunity,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides.
Location:
Michigan.
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