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at 2 p.m., and inventoried his property and clothing. No belt was listed on the inventory. Whitt denied suicidal thoughts or previous attempts, according to a mental health questionnaire. He did admit ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
died four days later. The Commission of Correction issued a report finding the medical and mental health care provided to Cummings at the jail was “so grossly incompetent and inadequate as to shock ...
Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
with prisoners who have mental health issues. According to the MDOC, an estimated 24 percent of the state’s prison population, or around 9,500 prisoners, have mental health problems. Other prisoners ...
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
under pressure from Republican legislators who were upset about her efforts to obtain prisoners’ medical and mental health information. [See: PLN, Aug. 2016, p.27]. She also had been troubled ...
to his family, as well as heightened public awareness of the inadequacy of the penal system as a proper setting in which to address mental health issues.” See: Adams v. NaphCare, Inc.,U.S.D.C. (E.D ...
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
, a landmark lawsuit that held mental health care for California prisoners was unconstitutional and caused by systemic overcrowding. “She walks into some prisons, and people start yelling, ‘Jane Kahn ...
; Treatment differed based on the type of attack. Victims of non-consensual sexual acts received medical examinations in 61% of incidents and 64% received some form of mental health treatment compared with 36 ...
Brief • June 24, 1996
of employment benefits, past and future, compensation for emotional damages, including embarrassment, humiliation, and mental anguish, all costs and reasonable attorney fees. Date of Incident: August 1995 through ...
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
for a mental health screening at OCJ’s Intake Release Center. Arriving there early the next morning, he saw nurse Patti Trout. Now complaining of chest pain radiating to his arm and jaw, he was short ...
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
the licensing exam based on the 2019 law. Ironically, Texas has both a mental health crisis and a shortage of social workers, who are often the first point of contact for people in need of mental health services ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
mental state. Wang prescribed him Haldol, an anti-psychotic. About three weeks later, Patterson complained that his feet were swelling. Believing this to be a side effect of the Haldol, Wang prescribed ...
accused them of violating her civil rights by failing to protect her from a known, serious risk of custodial sexual abuse. She also made claims for discriminatory treatment on account of her mental health ...
of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) pushed back against any suggestion that Rabbani suffered medical neglect while confined. “All inmates have access to comprehensive health care, including mental health care ...
won a $1.1 million settlement in April 2016 for the suicide of prisoner Joshua Claypole, who hanged himself with a bed sheet after he was denied mental health medication when he was admitted to the jail ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
a fellow prisoner standing outside his cell holding a shank. Suddenly, the lock popped open on the cell door; Donte Lamar Wyatt, then 40 and an orderly on the mental health unit, raced inside, stabbing ...
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
was provided before he was transferred to MCF. There two mental health practitioners named Arkesteyn and Foster oversaw SOP. Harper named them in a grievance he filed and carried all the way through DOC’s ...
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
. A suicide attempt followed, and he was transferred to Jester IV Unit — without crutches — for mental health treatment. There Davis complained of pain to medical personnel, who ordered additional X ...
, 39, on abuse by jailers and denial of mental health and medical care. Zumwalt was arrested near his home on October 22, 2020, on suspicion of public intoxication—he admitted using methamphetamine ...
forms for screening prisoners with mental health issues or those who are potentially suicidal; • Incomplete medical files for previous state mental health treatment, and • Preventative ...
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
care; • inadequate mental health care; • poor nutrition and food safety; • failure to protect prisoners from violence; • poor sanitation; and • excessively frequent and long ...
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