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Administrative Hearing on Forced Medication Requires Due Process

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Mental Health, Involuntary Treatment/Drugging. Location: South Dakota.

A federal district court in South Dakota has ordered the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to conduct again an administrative hearing on whether a prisoner should be forcibly medicated and instructed BOP to guarantee due process to the prisoner in the hearing.

Richard Allen Humphreys is a BOP prisoner. He was …

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