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South Carolina DOC’s Correctional Mental Health Care Condemned  


Author:  Fred Cohen.


Source: Volume 16, Number 01, May/June 2014 , pp.1-5(5)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

Understaffing, use of force and segregation, treatment records, screening and evaluation, and suicide prevention are examined when a claim of deliberate indifference is filed against the SCDC. A state court concludes that inadequate mental health staffing at all levels within SCDC represents a substantial risk of serious harm to inmates with serious mental illness.

Keywords: T.R., et al. v. South Carolina Department of Corrections; Ruiz v. Estelle; understaffing; Clinical ratios

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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