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Sterilization in the United States prison system dates back to the same origins as compulsory sterilization of developmentally disabled people. In the 1907 sterilization law passed by Indiana governor Frank J. Hanly, sterilization was made mandatory for "criminals, idiots, rapists, and imbeciles in state custody". [ 4 ]
Four Missouri prison workers were fired after an investigation into the death of an inmate whose family is demanding to know what happened. Othel Moore died Dec. 8 at the Jefferson City ...
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S. 261 (1990), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States involving a young adult incompetent. The first "right to die" case ever heard by the Court, Cruzan was argued on December 6, 1989, and decided on June 25, 1990.
Family releases video showing final moments before Black man's death in Missouri prison By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Newly released prison video of a Black Missouri man who prosecutors say was killed by guards shows almost 10 minutes passed after he stopped moving before a nurse checked on him.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
The family of a Black Missouri man who prosecutors say was killed by guards in a Missouri prison sued Tuesday for surveillance video of the moments leading up to his death. Four prison guards were ...
The Telegraph noted that the killing of the disabled infant—whose name was Gerhard Kretschmar, born blind, with missing limbs, subject to convulsions, and reportedly "an idiot"— provided "the rationale for a secret Nazi decree that led to 'mercy killings' of almost 300,000 mentally and physically handicapped people". [49]