Fitness & Health
COMPLETE COVERAGE
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.
SCOTUS is set to examine whether Texas is trying to put to death a convicted killer who’s intellectually disabled
The new program is part of the state’s justice reinvestment project to help reduce the number of prisoners and keep offenders from committing new crimes
The report said the jail is placing inmates with mental illnesses and disabilities in solitary confinement as a result of their disability