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| Prisons agency appeals mental health ruling |
| By savannahnow.com- Meg Kinnard |
| Published: 05/20/2014 |
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s prisons agency on Friday appealed a ruling on how to deal with mental health treatment behind bars, making official what director Bryan Stirling has said for months the agency planned to do. The appeal challenges a ruling by Circuit Judge Michael Baxley, who earlier this year sided with a group of inmates and an independent nonprofit group called Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities. Those entities sued the Corrections Department in 2005 over alleged constitutional violations, including a lack of effective counseling and overreliance on tactics such as isolation and pepper spray to subdue unruly, mentally ill prisoners. During a 2012 trial, Corrections officials disputed the claims, denying that any inmates’ constitutional rights were being violated and noting that the agency had no legal obligation to implement any of the recommendations from reports cited in the lawsuit against it. Read More. |
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