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Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
into consideration of non-economic damages. First is Ms. Chavez’s age at the time of the incident. In addition to her mental health issues, her young age made her particularly vulnerable to abuse by an unscrupulous ...
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
, became the court’s first blind justice when he was first elected in 2014. On April 18, 2023, he announced that he would miss oral arguments while he sought treatment for an unspecified mental health ...
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
previously ruled him incompetent due to mental illness, but he sat in KJC for a year decompensating because his family in California could not afford a $15,000 out-of-state bond, and the state faced delays ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2010
HIV epidemic. (Two years later, though, after his article "The Gulag Mentality" criticized the prison's new warden, Martin was promptly punished and shipped off to federal prison outside ...
Brief • 1998
, inadequate fire-safety, inadequate medical and mental health care, and failure to provide adequate protection from harm, but it is not limited to those areas. In initiating this investigation, we have ...
Brief • March 21, 2014
of certain medical peer review documents relating to the referral or failure of referral of a mentally ill prisoner to a proper program within the scope of Defendant Texas Tech’s duties under ADA ...
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
had been in solitary over a year, and 30% for more than five years. The respondents described negative health effects such as “anxiety, panic attacks, depression, hopelessness, sensitivity ...
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Organizing
wars and extortion inside prisons. As violence increases, prisoners arm themselves for self-protection. Add a lack of medical and mental health care, and the prison becomes a powder keg. “It&rsquo ...
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
, if something happens,” Reilly said of Hill, who had health problems. Hill retired in 2008, and Reilly replaced him. “By then, the jail had attracted notoriety after a series of grim developments ...
Article • October 5, 2020
questionnaire asking about his medical and mental health history. Nothing indicated that he was suicidal. He was assigned to general population housing. During the course of his day and a half in general ...
Article • March 22, 2022
, for example, or if the job exacerbates an existing mental or physical health condition. They are not seeking monetary damages but an injunction to prevent DOC from enforcing its policy, in accordance ...
Article • January 9, 2023
homeless man in the mental health ward focused attention on the jail’s problems, when Lashawn Pannell’s body was found covered in lice and his own feces. [See: PLN, Dec. 5, 2022, online ...
Article • January 9, 2023
that McLaughlin’s original counsel provided “ineffective assistance” by failing to present medical evidence of her mental health issues. On August 18, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
Article • January 20, 2023
are suffering from mental health problems and stress-reduced illness. “These incidents have contributed greatly to the prison’s difficulties in recruiting and retaining correctional officers and staff ...
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
an interest in parts of his c-­file, he contended the subpoena was overbroad because it included confidential medical and mental health records. The state countered that the c-­file reflected Lunsted ...
to no access to constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care, programming, and timely administrative relief” and many were subjected to “staff sexual abuse, harassment, and retaliation ...
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
prisoners who died at the DeBerry Special Needs Facility in Nashville—which houses prisoners with serious medical and mental health needs. There were 36 deaths at Special Needs in FY 2022-23—more ...
to those awaiting mental health evaluations, providing a loophole that can only worsen jail overcrowding. That, in turn, is driven by the state Commission on Jail Standards caps, which ratchet lower ...
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Filed under: Editorials
as the symptom of a failing mental health treatment system, which has deteriorated even as the use of solitary confinement and the infliction of psychiatric torture on prisoners has grown. COVID continues raging ...
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
themselves. It’s the things that occur inside of buildings that make them sacred.” As a compromise, state officials intend to convert the property into a mental health and addiction-treatment ...
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