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Prison Must Provide Medication Supply to Released Prisoners
Loaded on April 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2000, page 11
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Medication,
Discovery,
Parole,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
California.
The Ninth Circuit has held that prison officials must provide a supply of medications to prisoners requiring medication when they are released from prison.
Timothy Wakefield, a California state prisoner who requires psychotropic medication to control his Organic Delusional Disorder (ODD) and attendant violent outbursts, filed ...
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