Criminal
Dec. 19, 2019
US judge says state corrections department ‘knowingly misled’ court on prisoner mental health care
The judge stopped short of giving explicit instructions to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in her ruling, but wrote, “A remedial order will be issued in the near future.”
State prison officials "knowingly misled" the court and provided only "partial explanations" when they were caught in relation to a long-running case involving treatment of mentally ill prisoners, U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller said in a scathing ruling
Mueller stopped short of giving explicit instructions to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in her...
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