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Contempt Order Entered Against Virgin Island’s Prison Mental Health Care
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2008, page 46
Filed under:
Classification,
Out of State Transfers,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Overcrowding,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Virginia.
Contempt Order Entered Against Virgin Island’s Prison Mental Health Care
A Virgin Islands federal district court has held territory officials in contempt, ruling that they willfully violated the court’s orders. That finding came in a class action suit dating back to 1994 which challenges “inhumane and dangerous conditions” at the ...
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