Last week after writing a blog entry about the case, I filed away Judge Baxley’s January 8th Order declaring that South Carolina’s Corrections System be overhauled to stop the unconstitutional abuse to thousands of seriously mental ill inmates. This opinion came after seven years of...
The South Carolina prison system has permitted the abuse of mentally ill inmates for at least the last ten years. The stories that have been documented about these inmates with serious mental illnesses are horrific. Mr. Laudman, a schizophrenic, intellectually disabled man with a speech impediment...
It is not surprising that generally 55% of all inmates in the United States suffer from some type of mental health issue, and at the same time roughly 5% of all adult American suffer from a serious mental illness. This was front page news in today’s Wall...