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| ACLU of Indiana, Department of Corrections Reach Settlement |
| By wfyi.org- Jake Harper |
| Published: 01/28/2016 |
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INDIANAPOLIS -- The ACLU of Indiana, Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services and Indiana Department of Correction have reached an agreement on how to treat mentally ill prisoners, years after a judge attributed a number of suicides to poor treatment in Indiana prisons. Between 2007 and 2011, IDOC saw 23 suicides in its facilities. Eleven of those occurred in solitary confinement. In a lawsuit brought by the ACLU and IPAS, a judge found that the treatment of mentally ill prisoners — isolating them for 23 hours a day — violated 8th Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment. But according to the ACLU and IPAS, IDOC has done a lot to make things better since that lawsuit. For one thing, it’s a lot harder to put mentally ill prisoners in solitary. And those prisoners actually get therapy. Read More. |
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