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Article • July 31, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
on July 11, 2015. Judge Karlton presided over the most significant prison cases of the 21st century, including Plata v. Brown and Coleman v. Brown related to medical and mental health care for California ...
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
Filed under: Crime, Prosecutors
a more persuasive mitigation case based on mental health.” The list of names on the National Prosecutor Memorial does not include any federal prosecutors. Dennis Boyd, director of the National ...
at the jails violated the constitutional rights of prisoners “by failing (a) to protect them from harm, (b) to provide adequate mental health care or medical care, and (c) to engage in adequate suicide ...
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
on a daily basis for a mental health condition, and that since he did not receive the medication while incarcerated due to his inability to post bond, he was hospitalized for a short time following his release ...
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Filed under: Reviews
and jails, the mental health crisis within penal facilities and racial biases endemic in the U.S. criminal justice system. That’s just to name a few of the myriad topics it tackles. “Survivors ...
continued mental health care, none was provided until Jenkins suffered a serious breakdown and a court had to intervene, ordering CVRJ to give her treatment. The lawsuit cited another prisoner who suffered ...
Article • September 6, 2016
, immaturity, intellectual capacity, mental health history, and the influence of familial or peer pressure when imposing sentences. A state senate judiciary committee in Pennsylvania, where 444 juvenile ...
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons, News
the privatization of facility management, but also the privatization of correctional medical care, mental health care, food services, commissary services, phone services, transportation services, probation and other ...
of mentally ill Chatham County jail prisoner Mathew Ajibade, 21, who had been arrested for allegedly hitting his girlfriend. Surveillance video showed an agitated Ajibade at one point thrashing about ...
insults, including racial slurs; dangerous and unsanitary conditions of confinement; and denial of medical and mental health care,” according to the report. While the acts were allegedly committed ...
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Hunger Strikes, Protests
;All the research points to just how bad it is for people’s mental health who are already suffering,” said Marlene Sanchez, associate director of Communities United for Restorative Youth ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
addiction and mental health support. They also face disproportionately high rates of death due to drug overdose, cardiovascular disease, homicide, and suicide within this crucial period.” Additionally ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
and a diversion program, which lets some first-time felony offenders avoid conviction altogether. He added the county is interested in starting a program that combines mental health counseling with a medical device ...
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
was.” Equally bad, at the state prison in Phoenix – which is designated as a mental health facility where many prisoners are taking psychotropic medications that interfere with heat regulation ...
over a five-day period. As to the issue of failing to identify detainees with chronic care or mental health treatment needs at intake, the court pointed to a suicide that occurred at the jail only six ...
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
complex building to house another 600 prisoners. According to emails from Gusman that were obtained via a public records request, the additional building would hold prisoners with medical and mental health ...
Article • October 3, 2014
demonstrates that detention has a profoundly negative impact on young people's mental health and well-being, employment and educational outcomes, and increases the likelihood of becoming more deeply involved ...
for inadequate staffing, resulted from GEO’s failure to have enough guards in staffed positions at LCCF. There were also noncustodial positions, such as counselors for substance abuse and mental health treatment ...
;Defendants are responsible for ensuring the health, safety and well-being of inmates placed under their custody and control, and are responsible for enacting, enforcing and administering appropriate policy ...
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
: that it is expensive to lock people up indefinitely in a prison dressed up as a mental health facility. PLN has reported on civil commitment issues around the country. This month’s cover story fits squarely ...
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