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Placement of Homeless Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Supportive Housing, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 Culhane.qxd 5/28/02 10:26 AM Page 107 · Housing Policy Debate Volume 13, Issue 1 © Fannie Mae Foundation 2002. All Rights Reserved. 107 107 Public Service Reductions Associated with Placement of Homeless Persons with Severe …
Suicides, Staff Negligence Plague Private Arkansas Juvenile Prison by Lonnie Burton In October 2001, a just-completed state investigation concluded that Houston-based Cornell Company, the private firm that runs Arkansas's Alexander Youth Services Center, was negligent for failing to monitor an at-risk youth who committed suicide. The suicide was the second …
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Ohio Supreme Court Rules Indigent Sex Predator Gets Paid Expert Witness by The Ohio Supreme Court has held that an indigent defendant in a sexual predator classification hearing is entitled to an expert witness at state expense "if the court determines, within its sound discretion, that such services are reasonably …
$377,500 Awarded in Tennessee Jail Death by In September 2001, a federal jury in Memphis, Tennessee, awarded $377,500 in damages to the estate of a mentally ill jail prisoner killed by guards. In November 1996, Calvin Shaw, a paranoid schizophrenic, was arrested on sexual assault charges and imprisoned at the …
Compelled Attendance at AA/NA Violates Establishment Clause by Compelled Attendance At AA/NA Violates Establishment Clause The Washington Court of Appeals has held that it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment for the DOC to force a prisoner to attend AA/NA meetings as a part of its chemical dependency …
"Barbaric Conditions" At Wisconsin Supermax Result in Preliminary Injunction To Transfer Mentally Ill Prisoners by John E Dannenberg "Barbaric Conditions" At Wisconsin Supermax Result in Preliminary Injunction To Transfer Mentally Ill Prisoners by John Dannenberg Noting that the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause protects the mental health of …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
D.C. Wrongly Jails Mentally Ill Man for Two Years by D.C. Wrongly Jails Mentally Ill Man For Two Years Joseph Heard, 42, was released from the Washington D.C. jail on August 13, 2001. He served nearly 2 years in solitary confinement in the jail's mental health unit. The problem is …
Wisconsin Medical Care Substandard, Even for Prisoners by Gary Hunter Michelle Greer had asthma, the operative word being had past tense. Her asthma no longer exists because Michelle Greer is dead. On February 29, 2000, at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution, she died of an asthma attack, suffocated by the apathy …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
Wackenhut Searches for New Business by Wackenhut Searches For New Business In the 1990s, states couldn't build prisons fast enough. To keep up with the ever-increasing number of prisoners, many states turned to private prison companies like Wackenhut Corrections, Corrections Corporation of America, and Cornell Corrections. But the prison-building boom …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
$500,000 Settlement in Oregon Jail Self-Mutilation Case by In March 2001, the Multnomah county jail in Portland, Oregon, paid over $500,000 to settle a lawsuit by a mentally ill jail prisoner who gouged his eyes out during a psychotic episode. In 1998 Peter Klarquist was found guilty except for insanity …
Washington DOC Settles Wrongful Death Suit for $245,000 by Washington DOC Settles Wrongful Death Suit For $245,000 In February 2001, Washington prison officials agreed to settle a $2.9 million wrongful death suit for $245,000 in costs, damages, and attorneys' fees. The lawsuit was brought in state court by a prisoner's …
New Retaliation Standard Defined by In a case of first impression, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has defined a prisoner's burden of proof in a retaliation claim. Prisoner Henry Rauser sued Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) officials after they retaliated against him for exercising his right to …
$225,000 Paid in Mentally Ill Prisoner's Death by $225,000 paid in mentally ill prisoner's death In 1991, John E. Rickert was placed in the DOC's custody to serve a sentence upon conviction of a crime. Mr. Rickert was suffering from an unspecified mental illness at the time of his incarceration, …
Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002
Mental Health Treatment in State Prisons Falls Short by Among the 1,558 public and private state prisons and community corrections facilities, approximately 191,000 prisoners are mentally ill. Of these prisoners, about one in five does not receive necessary mental health treatment. These numbers come from a report by Allen J. …
$3.54 Million Paid For Falsely Imprisoning Unconvicted Mentally-Incapacitated California Man For Two Years In New York by John E Dannenberg A mentally incapacitated misdemeanant detainee at the Los Angeles County, California, jail was unlawfully extradited to New York, where he was imprisoned for two years in the Green Haven Correctional …
PLRA Constitutional, Most of Ruiz Relief Terminated in Texas Suit by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the constitutionality of the termination provisions of the PLRA, 18 U.S.C. § 3626. On remand, the district court terminated most of the relief previously ordered in the Ruiz case. This involves …
Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002
Parole Revoked for Refusing Medication by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that parole can be revoked if the parolee refuses medication as part of an agreed mental health treatment plan. Randy Closs, who has a long-term diagnosis of schizophrenia, was granted conditional parole from the South Dakota …
Eighth Circuit Applies Turner Test to Control Unit Conditions Case by In the first case to apply the "Reasonable Relationship" Test of Turner v. Safley , 482 U.S. 78, 107 S.Ct. 2254 (1987), to a conditions of confinement case, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded a district court's decision …
Colorado Restraint Board Death Case Settled by Bill Trine by Bill Trine, esq. A§ 1983 civil rights lawsuit and medical/healthcare negligence lawsuit was brought by the mother of 54 year old Michael Lewis, who died on May 7, 1998, after being placed on a "restrainer board" while incarcerated as a …
Washington DOC Suffers Yet Another Multi-Million Dollar Negligent Supervision Settlement by Lonnie Burton On May 16, 2001, the State of Washington and King County agreed to pay $5.5 million to the family of a man stabbed to death by a mentally ill man who was mistakenly released from the King …
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