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Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
and an extensive mental-health history. Yet he's also been incident-free for years at a time and says he's been unable to progress out of the supermax because of conflicts with medical staff over his medication. I ...
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Starbucks coffee beans and Nintendo Game Boy systems that would end up under Christmas trees across the country . Twin Rivers, part of a four-unit prison that houses mentally ill prisoners, high- security ...
of expected release, and to prohibit a Very High risk assessment if he had been clear of assaultive behavior for seven years. MDOC agreed to provide independent mental health evaluations for at least 25 ...
to "immediately discontinue" the practice. Even by CYA official estimates, at least 10% of the young offenders housed in YCF's 0 and R Building have serious mental health problems with "open ended drug ...
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
to be "mentally fit to practice safely" and prohibited from examining or treating female patients without a third party present." As previously reported in PLN , the California prison mental health system has ...
Article • February 15, 2008
Filed under: News, State Legislation
their many mentally ill inmates, and the Maine State Prison has tortured some who are discipline problems (see "Torture in Maine?s Prison," by Lance Tapley, November 11, 2005). State officials have appeared ...
Civil Confinement Conditions Survives Dismissal by John E. Dannenberg A class of 600 civilly committed sexually violent predators (SVP) sued the California Department of Mental Health (DMH) under 42 ...
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
received a $4.5 million settlement from the FDOC, $100,000 of which was paid by DCI’s former mental health care contractor, Corizon. Martha Harbin, director of external relations for the company ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
; where prisoners such as Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, are held – is the possibility of mental health staff being furloughed for a significant period of time. “Most BOP facilities will run ...
Article • December 21, 2017
Filed under: Suicides
that the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (MHMR) examine her. Jail staff told him that MHMR would not see her until she was sober, she was just drunk and needed to sleep it off. During ...
Article • April 8, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
is cruel and shameful but hiding or denying it just makes it worse.” A number of states, such as New York, have recently curtailed the use of solitary confinement for prisoners with mental health ...
activities outside of their cells on a daily basis, including weekends and holidays.” The settlement also addresses issues related to medical and mental health treatment, suicide prevention, disciplinary ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
with the ACLU and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to implement jail reforms designed to decrease violence and improve mental health care. The ACLU, DOJ and the lead court-appointed monitor, Richard E ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2012
officials had knowledge of his developmental disabilities and mental health condition. Nevertheless, DPS transferred Clifford to CCA’s Saguaro facility, far from his family, and CCA failed to take ...
. The new suit joins two other class-actions that DOC is defending. In one a federal judge has already found mental health care in state prisons “horrendously inadequate,” calling out DOC ...
Brief • September 7, 2006
., Doe v. Region 13 Mental Health-Mental Retardation Commission, 704 F.2d 1402, 1407 (5th Cir. 1983) (“jury trials do not appear to be a matter of right under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
to push through a compassionate release so the death would not count toward the jail’s total. October 22, 2022 — Erick Tavira, 28, was found fatally hanged with a sheet in the mental health ...
to receive any care aside from a referral to a mental health provider that had no experience or expertise in treating patients with gender dysphoria,” the Court said that DOC still “failed ...
, or a nurse employed by the medical and mental health providers,” according to the suit filed for her estate by representative Connie Dence. Butterfield’s antipsychotic medication was also &ldquo ...
been assaulted by other prisoners. She also suffers from serious mental health issues, with a history of suicidal ideation and self-directed violence—including over 100 suicide risk assessments ...
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