Alabama Federal Judge Finds Prisoner Class Has Been Denied Mental Health Care

(June 28, 2017, 12:49 PM EDT) -- MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The mental health care provided to prisoners by the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is “horrendously inadequate” and violates the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution rights of a class of prisoners, an Alabama federal judge ruled June 27 (Edward Braggs, et al. v. Jefferson S. Dunn, et al., No. 14-601, M.D. Ala., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98755)....

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