Market Intelligence Resource | December 31, 2012
Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission et al, v. Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction
December 31, 2012
On December 31, 2012, Federal District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt found the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) in violation of the Eighth AmendmentÂ’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment by placing seriously mentally ill offenders in segregated confinement. The court concluded that mentally ill prisoners within the IDOC segregation units were not receiving minimally adequate mental health care in terms of scope, intensity, and duration and the IDOC had been deliberately indifferent. The court ruling came as a result of a class action lawsuit filed in 2008 by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf . . .
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