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Indiana governors, who rely on recommendations from the Indiana Parole Board, have granted medical clemencies to only six inmates in the last two decades. Gov. Gov. Eric Holcomb issued four of ...
An involuntarily committed, legally competent patient who refused medication had a right to professional medical review of the treating psychiatrist's decision. The Court left the decision-making process to medical professionals. 14th 1990 Washington v. Harper: Prisoners have only a very limited right to refuse psychotropic medications in prison.
A 2017 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics noted that 54.3% of prisoners and 35% of jail inmates who had experienced serious psychological distress in the past 30 days have received mental health treatment since admission to the current facility, and 63% of prisoners and 44.5% of jail inmates with a history of a mental health problem ...
Compassionate release is a process by which inmates in criminal justice systems may be eligible for immediate early release on grounds of "particularly extraordinary or compelling circumstances which could not reasonably have been foreseen by the court at the time of sentencing". [1] Compassionate release procedures, which are also known as ...
Kristine Phillips, Indianapolis Star. September 12, 2024 at 7:30 AM. Joseph Corcoran, an Allen County man convicted of killing four people, is set to be the first death row inmate to be executed ...
1,171 (September 2023) Opened. Original Facility: 1940. Current Facility: 2005 [1] Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute (USP Terre Haute) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Terre Haute, Indiana. It is part of the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute (FCC Terre ...
Lawton inmate vomited, seized for four days without help from medical staff Barrientos, 31, was serving 15 years for robbery and possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony, according ...
Prison healthcare is the medical specialty in which healthcare providers care for people in prisons and jails. Prison healthcare is a relatively new specialty that developed alongside the adaption of prisons into modern disciplinary institutions. Enclosed prison populations are particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases, including arthritis ...