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Oregon Jail 'Tortures' Mentally Ill Prisoners
Loaded on March 6, 2018
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2018, page 52
Filed under:
Jail Misconduct,
Jail Specific,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Oregon.
The people who work there are for the most part good people trying to do the best they can,” said Dr. Wil Berry, a psychiatrist who completed a six-month rotation at the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC). “However, the product of the system as a whole is that we’re torturing ...
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