Fitness & Health
It’s an age-old dilemma, a legal conundrum in Washington and the nation, the byproduct of a judicial system trying to be fair to people with mental illness
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Judith A. Bird was also reprimanded for disclosing the confidential information of some inmates to other inmates without their consent
Inmate Jerry C. Williams has spent much of his 57 years in state psychiatric hospitals and prisons
Inmate stabbed himself after 40 days in Hennepin County jail without proper psychiatric care
With nowhere else to turn, prisons are stepping up to the challenge of treating mentally ill offenders
The relationship is providing a model for what should happen between law enforcement and care providers
Karu Gene White, 54, has declined to cooperate with two scheduled mental exams and his attorneys have advised him to say no to a third examination
Judge said it was important to show videos in public so that state’s claims about improvements it has made in the treatment of mentally ill prisoners can be assessed fairly
Employee: “The most violent clients continue their behaviors because there are few real consequences to those behaviors”
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