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Psych Evaluations Questioned Following D.C. Jail Suicides

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2007 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News October, 2007, page 18
Filed under: Private Prisons, Unity Health Care, Contractor Misconduct, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides. Location: District of Columbia.
by Matthew T. Clarke

The methods used for psychological evaluation and housing of prisoners at the Washington, D.C. Jail are being questioned after two prisoners committed suicide within a three-month period.

Alicia Edwards, 32, had a history of mental illness when she hung herself in her D.C. Jail cell on …

 

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