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Article • August 9, 2016
Significant Lack of Mental Health Treatment for United States Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Mental health disorders are common for individuals who are incarcerated. In fact, according to a 2012 study by the National Institutes of Health, 26 percent of prisoners identified as having a mental health disorder while only 18 …
Processing and Treatment of Mentally Ill, Urban Institute, 2015 CRIME AND JUSTICE RESEARCH REPORT The Processing and Treatment of Mentally Ill Persons in the Criminal Justice System A Scan of Practice and Background Analysis KiDeuk Kim March 2015 Miriam Becker-Cohen Maria Serakos ABOUT THE URBAN INSTITUTE The nonprofit Urban Institute …
Article • August 8, 2016
Montana Jury Awards $80,000 in Jail Suicide by A Montana jury found that Fergus County and the Fergus County Sheriff’s department was partially negligent in a prisoner’s suicide. It awarded the prisoner’s estate nearly $80,000. Carl Odell Stacy, 40, was no stranger to officials at the Fergus County Jail (FCJ). …
Oklahoma County Settles Suit over Excessive Use of Restraint Chair for $200,000 by On May 20, 2014, Bryan County, Oklahoma agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a former Bryan County Jail prisoner over maltreatment, including placing him in a restraint chair multiple times for days at a time and …
Michigan Women’s Prison Investigated for Abusing Mentally Ill by A letter from the Michigan ACLU to the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) charged that mentally ill prisoners were being abused.  One instance involved the hog tying of a prisoner as punishment. The July 2015 letter concerned prisoner treatment at the …
Rikers Island Guards Treat Mental Illness with Violence by Matthew Clarke With around 4,000 of its 11,000 prisoners classified as mentally ill, Rikers Island jail holds more psychiatric patients than all 24 of the psychiatric hospitals in New York State combined. In 2006, prisoners with mental illness comprised about 20% …
Suit Charges Florida Detainee Died of Neglect by David Reutter The estate of a pretrial detainee who was “neglected to death” sued Florida’s Broward County Jail (BCJ) and its medical contractor, Armor Correctional Health Services (Armor). In other BCJ news, a guard was acquitted of assaulting a pretrial detainee. Upon …
California Prison Staff Told to Fake Suicide Checks, Union Says by Joe Watson The new medical facility for prisoners in Stockton, California, run by the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), was supposed to help correct the systemic problems CDCR has in providing adequate medical, dental and mental health …
Torture in Healthcare Settings, CHRHL, 2013 Torture in Healthcare Settings: Reflections on the Special Rapporteur on Torture’s 2013 Thematic Report C E N T E R F O R H U M A N R I G H T S & H U M A N I TA R I …
Number of State Prisoners Age 55 and Over Increased 400% in 20 Years by Derek Gilna Although much of the attention concerning the huge increase in America’s prison population has focused on the federal prison system, a new U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) report found that the number of prisoners …
Illinois DOC Settles Lawsuit Over Mental Health Treatment by Derek Gilna It took eight years but civil rights attorneys finally prevailed in a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), entering into a settlement that requires prison officials to provide 11,000 mentally ill state prisoners with adequate mental …
Restraint Chair Deaths, Abuses Prompt Questions, Criticism and Lawsuits by Joe Watson Like another jail detainee more than seven years before him, Joshua Grose died while strapped into a restraint chair at the York County Detention Center in South Carolina. In the early morning hours of October 12, 2013, following …
Publication • August 1, 2016
The Execution of Mentally Ill Offenders, Amnesty International, 2003 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The execution of mentally ill offenders I cannot believe that capital punishment is a solution – to abolish murder by murdering, an endless chain of murdering. When I heard that my daughter’s murderer was not to be …
Article • July 29, 2016
$600,000 Settlement in New Orleans Detainee’s Death by A $600,000 settlement was reached in the death of a pre-trial detainee at Orleans Parish Prison (OPP).  At least five other lawsuits are pending in the deaths of other detainees. Cayne Miceli is one of at least 44 people to die at …
Brief • July 28, 2016
Center for Legal Advocacy v. Bicha, CO, Mot to Dismiss, Jail Mental Health, 2016 Case 1:11-cv-02285-NYW Document 78 Filed 07/28/16 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 5 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. ll-CV-02285-NYW CENTER FOR LEGAL ADVOCACY, d/b/a DISABILITY LAW COLORADO, Plaintiff, …
Dying for Decent Care - Bad Medicine in Immigration Custody, FIAC, 2009 DYING FOR DECENT CARE: BAD MEDICINE IN IMMIGRATION CUSTODY \ .. I . ~ J,' '\ 6600B r R ~J~:::::.:J:~: . ~~:~: /~~~~ <: ::/.:~~: _.'" .JL",,;, i jJ~ , "'.. /"' - / /., ~J,? lli\l t …
Publication • July 26, 2016
Mental Illness in Prison - Inmate Rehabilitation & Correctional Officers in Crisis, SpearIt, 2009 Mental Illness in Prison: Inmate Rehabilitation & Correctional Officers in Crisis Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 14, p. 227, 2009 Saint Louis University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-18 SpearIt Saint Louis University School of …
Publication • July 26, 2016
Re-arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic - Why the Incarceration of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness Violates Public Health, Ethical, and Constitutional Principles, Bard, undated J. Bard “Incarceration of Individuals with Serious M ental Illness” Re-arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Why the Incarceration of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness …
White v. Watson, et al., IL, amended complaint, wrongful death, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00560-JPG-DGW Document 26 Filed 07/19/16 Page 1 of 16 Page ID #85 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS DWAYNE WHITE, as Administrator of the ESTATE OF BRADLEY C. SCARPI, Plaintiff, v. ST. …
Trueblood v. Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Order, Failure to Provide Timely Mental Health Services, 2016 Case 2:14-cv-01178-MJP Document 289 Filed 07/07/16 Page 1 of 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 8 9 10 CASSIE …
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