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| Prison improvements for inmates with mental illness disputed |
| By greenvilleonline.com |
| Published: 01/17/2014 |
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COLUMBIA — While state prison officials say steps have been taken to improve the treatment of inmates with serious mental illness, advocates for the mentally ill say the agency hasn’t made any major improvements in the 11 deficiencies found by a judge last week. Gloria Prevost, executive director with Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities, the plaintiff in the 2005 lawsuit that resulted in last week’s ruling, and Joy Jay, executive director of Mental Health America of South Carolina, said the state’s prison system argued during the 2012 trial that it had made corrections to serious deficiencies in the agency’s treatment of inmates with mental illness. “None of the deficiencies had been corrected at the time of trial,” Prevost told The Greenville News. “They have not been corrected today.” Prevost and Jay said Judge Michael Baxley referenced what the prison system had done by way of improvements in his 45-page ruling and called them “half-hearted measures” and “Band-Aids.” Read More. |
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