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The Mentally Ill in California Prisons: The Never Ending Story  


Author:  Fred Cohen .


Source: Volume 16, Number 02, July/August 2014 , pp.17-19(3)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

Judge Lawrence K. Karlton recently issued yet another comprehensive Memorandum and Order in Coleman v. Brown , 2014 WL 1400964, (E. D. Cal. April 10, 2014). Of particular interest is Judge Karlton’s handling of issues surrounding seriously mentally ill (SMI) inmates and the use of force along with SMI inmates placed (or facing placement) in various forms of segregated housing.

Keywords: Coleman v. Brown; Brown v. Plata; hospital model; Treatment teams; use of force; administrative segregation units; decompensation

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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