Fitness & Health
More than 50 people sent a letter to the governor asking him to support Ricky Gray’s request to have his sentence commuted to life in prison
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Attorneys say an inmate who killed himself received no counseling before taking his own life
The state has denied during the trial that Alabama inmates receive inadequate mental health treatment
A remaining challenge for IDOC is employing about 400 new staff needed for the expanded mental health system
Michael Steven Sandford tried to grab a police officer’s gun in a plan to kill Donald Trump at a campaign rally last June
The probe will focus on whether the jail violated the rights of mentally ill inmates
In the nation’s local jails in 2013, a third of all inmate deaths were by suicide, and the suicide rate was 46 per 100,000 inmates
Officials said inmates are never denied medical care or medication because of the cost
An attorney for a mentally disabled man serving a 100-year prison term asked the Montana Supreme Court to vacate his sentence
The two sheriff’s deputies beat a mentally ill jail inmate and falsified records to hide the abuse
The work is part of the ongoing effort by the DOC to comply with an agreement reached in a lawsuit over the department’s treatment of inmates with mental health issues.