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MA: Federal Judge Orders MA Correctional Health to Turn Over Records On Prisoner Suicides

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Judge orders prison suicide records Advocacy group sues over care of inmates By Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / August 12, 2010 A federal judge in Boston ordered a former contractor for the state prison system yesterday to provide him with the psychiatric treatment records of about 25 inmates who committed or attempted suicide while in solitary confinement from 2005 to 2007. US Chief District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf gave the University of Massachusetts Correctional Health Program until Aug. 27 to turn over thousands of pages of mental health reviews written by therapists after the suicides and attempts. He wants to determine whether he can legally turn them over to a nonprofit advocacy group that has sued the state over the care of mentally ill inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 12, 2010 (boomark / email).