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| Settlement: Treatment Required For Mentally Ill Inmates |
| By indianapublicmedia.org- Ryan Delaney |
| Published: 01/29/2016 |
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The ACLU and Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services will get increased access for monitoring the treatment of mentally ill inmates at state prisons. That’s part of the terms of a settlement the groups reached with the Department of Corrections. Complete isolation for days or weeks can exacerbate mental illnesses, or even cause them. Now those inmates will not be placed in solitary confinement, instead getting regular screenings by prison staff and therapy. Roughly a quarter of state inmates have a mental illness. But those inmates were making up a much larger percentage of solitary confinement when the ACLU and IPAS sued the Department of Corrections in 2008. A judge ordered the sides to strike an agreement. Read More. |
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