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| South Carolina slow on progress for mentally-ill inmates |
| By thestate.com- Tim Smith |
| Published: 08/17/2015 |
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COLUMBIA, SC Seven years after a mentally ill inmate being held naked and cold for 11 days died in a South Carolina prison cell, the director of the state’s prison system says he hopes changes for the handling of mentally ill prisoners will prevent such a tragedy from occurring again. But a year-and-a-half after a judge ordered the changes, the state remains in mediation with advocates for mentally ill prisoners, and the prison system has yet to hire 40 additional mental health and medical workers funded by lawmakers this year. The confidential mediation talks are complicated and have gone past the goal of reaching a final settlement by July 31, said Gloria Prevost, executive director for the advocacy group that sued the state over the treatment of inmates with severe mental illness. “There are a lot of complicated issues and there are a lot of things that need to be done,” she told The Greenville News. Read More. |
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