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Abstract: 

The complete issue includes all of the articles listed in the contents above plus briefer treatments of a psychiatrist’s letter to plaintiff’s lawyers in Parsons v. Shinn detailing the dysfunction he encountered as an employee of Artizona’s correctional health care system; Hardesty v. Ward, in which the federal district court found for defendants accused of violating a violent and uncooperative inmate who was injured in an encounter he an initiated with guards; Downard v. Martin, in which an ex-police officer committed suicide in a holding cell; and Stojcevski v. Macomb Co., Mich, in which a jail inmate’s death from narcotic withdrawal is actionable and staff’s claim of qualified immunity denied after clear symptoms of distress and decline were ignored. Other cases covered in the issue include U.S. v. Green (compassionate release); U.S. v. McCain (juvenile life without parole); Anderson v. District of Columbia (what treatment is owed a criminal defendant found incompetent to be tried?); and McClure v. Haste (mattress deprivation as cruel & unusual punishment).

Keywords: COVID-19; Suicide Risk; Seriously Mentally Ill; Americans with Disabilities Act; Qualified Immunity

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.