prison mental health

Alabama's prison system is facing a hearing on how it provides mental health services to inmates.Al.com reports U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson has…

An Alabama prison official testified in federal court yesterday that a now-dead prisoner was placed on mental health observation, rather than suicide…

Alabama’s prison system is on trial once again starting today.The next phase of hearings regarding health and mental health care for Alabama state inmates…

The deadline is looming for Alabama’s correctional officials to tell a federal judge how they plan to overhaul mental health care in state prisons.U.S.…

The U.S. Supreme Court has come down in favor of an Alabama inmate who argued he didn’t have a mental health expert at his trial to help him try and avoid…

An Alabama senator says the federal government should cover most of the cost of caring for county jail inmates with mental illnesses.Sen. Cam Ward, a…

The Alabama Department of Corrections has agreed to put new suicide prevention measures in place after an inmate killed himself days after testifying on…

The chief psychiatrist for Ohio’s state prison system says Alabama fails to spot mental illness in many of its inmates and lacks the mental health staff…