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participated in the Life Time Stand (LTS) program, which was run by KCCC Warden Neal Wagatsuma. The program purported to provide “therapy, counseling, and mental health treatment.” According to Gregg ...
or not exposing elderly and mentally ill prisoners to fatal heat levels can be considered “cruel and unusual punishment.” Also surprising is that guards are willing to work in such sweltering conditions ...
Article • July 6, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
with mental health problems and, most importantly, greater transparency. The ACLU’s report also called on Sheriff Hutchens to resign – a suggestion that she apparently took to heart, though she ...
: Echevarria v. City of New York, U.S.D.C. (S.D. NY), Case No. 1:13-cv-04921-RMB-RLE. In a separate lawsuit involving a mentally ill Rikers Island prisoner, New York City officials agreed to a $5.75 million ...
the complaint, the defendants’ attorney sent Reyes five letters over the course of six months demanding that he sign a general medical release for his records held by Cermark Health Services, Cermark ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
and mental health problems to help reduce jail populations. The report also recommended that “poverty no longer be criminalized” by encouraging judges to “use non-monetary sanctions, rather ...
Article • February 8, 2018
in a “not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) verdict, followed by her placement in the Colorado Mental Health Institute Pueblo (CMHIP). In June of 2008, Torrez was found competent to proceed ...
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
for medical care. Walker informed the district court that he had mental health problems, little knowledge of the law or access to legal resources, and was being assisted by a “jailhouse lawyer who helped ...
Article • October 24, 2016
the state. None have ever been released from a program theoretically created to treat sex offenders who suffer from "a behavioral abnormality." Some legal and mental health experts question whether ...
it shocked the consciousness and allowing such punishment was deliberately indifferent to the medical and mental health needs of juvenile prisoners who are entering the final stages of childhood development ...
Article • July 22, 2018
refused to provide Mitchell with the treatment its own expert recommended on the ground that Mitchell was within a month of release from the prison.” “Although DOC’s Mental Health ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
jumped from the second floor at the Multnomah County Detention Center and landed on his head. Jail staff had not placed him on suicide watch despite indications he had mental health problems. Wilson filed ...
, GEO Care “provides government out-sourced services specializing in the management of correctional, detention, and mental health and residential treatment facilities” in the United States and abroad ...
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
in a prison system with around 21,800 offenders. According to the report, prisoners with serious mental health problems accounted for 47% of the assaults; 59% of assaults and 70% of attempted assaults occurred ...
confinement and prolonged solitary confinement – defined as more than 15 consecutive days – are prohibited. Solitary confinement is also prohibited in the case of persons with mental or physical ...
is incarcerated. The VOCA funding restriction targeted a group of people who already face massive barriers to getting quality help. Medical and mental health care in prison are notoriously poor and underfunded ...
, and physical and mental health of children and adolescents, and ... permissible only as a last resort.” The brief was filed in connection with Flores v. United States, a lawsuit challenging the government ...
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
. Eligible for parole after serving five years, he was required to complete sex offender treatment before he could be paroled. Four years into his sentence, mental health professionals recommended that Ramirez ...
Article • December 28, 2017
of Prisons; Robert M. Haro, regional director for the western region; Michael Benov, warden of FCI Dublin; Paul Schultz, former warden of FCI Dublin; Dr. Stephen Formanski, mental health worker at FCI Dublin ...
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
the Spillman Assessment in his medical chart, though did not refer him to a mental health counselor or initiate the jail’s suicide prevention protocol. Clark was then put in a detoxification cell where he ...
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