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| SC Corrections Department spent more than $800K defending inmate mental health lawsuit |
| By greenfieldreporter.com |
| Published: 02/13/2014 |
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina — South Carolina's prisons agency has amassed more than $800,000 in legal bills defending accusations of poor care for mentally ill inmates. A spokesman confirmed to The Greenville News (http://grnol.co/1iOkPr1 ) that the Department of Corrections had spent $838,000 on the case brought by a group of mentally ill inmates, who sued the agency in 2005 over alleged constitutional violations. Among their complaints was a lack of effective counseling and overreliance on tactics like isolation and pepper spray to subdue unruly, mentally ill prisoners. After years of negotiations and preparation, a two-week trial was held in 2012. Earlier this month, Circuit Judge Michael Baxley sided with the inmates, writing a 45-page ruling that castigated the department for failures in a number of areas — from screening new inmates for mental health problems to properly administering medication and preventing suicide — and gave the agency six months to come up with a plan to fix them. Court-appointed monitors would report back on progress. Read More. |
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