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| Court Filing Says Ga. Inmates Death Rate Unusually High |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/06/2003 |
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Those claims were attached July 8 to a suit filed in February by the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights which seeks class action status for 225 mentally ill inmates in the 1,200-bed prison. The lawsuit contends that the Georgia Department of Corrections has allowed deaths to occur through chronic understaffing of correctional staff, deployment of untrained or undertrained correctional staff, and inadequate procedures for dealing with the special population of seriously mentally ill prisoners. Since July 27, 2001, six inmates have died from suicide, falls or assaults by other inmates, according to the lawsuit. Most recently, inmate Reginald Taylor hanged himself June 13 in a cell after he was slammed against a wall or fence by an officer earlier that day, the lawsuit said. The Georgia Department of Corrections does not comment on pending litigation, spokeswoman Scheree Lipscomb said. |
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