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| OpEd: Mental health oversight still needed |
| By Detroit Free Press |
| Published: 08/12/2008 |
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MICHIGAN - U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker will determine whether to remove federal oversight of mental health care in Michigan prisons, following closing arguments heard Friday in Grand Rapids. Despite assurances from the Michigan Department of Corrections, removing the court's independent oversight would put thousands of inmates at risk. The state Department of Corrections argues that the mental health provisions of the Hadix case, filed by inmates in the 1980s, should now be closed. MDOC spokesman Russ Marlan said prison mental health care has improved. All incoming inmates get effective clinical appraisals instead of standardized tests, he said, and the department has better ways to ensure that inmates continue to get the medications they need. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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