Debate over excited delirium syndrome has raged in medical circles since George Floyd’s death last year. Major medical organizations don’t recognize it, but the emergency physicians and pathologists who see the most cases say it’s real.
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An appeals court in Texas vacated the sentence of the state’s longest-serving death row inmate, Raymond Riles. The jury that convicted Riles for shooting a man to death during a robbery did not receive a “mitigation-focused” instruction but should have because of the mental health evidence presented at trial, including witness testimony that he was often psychotic and had schizophrenia.
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Instagram, which Facebook owns, will soon allow a small group of random users to decide whether or not they want to see the number of likes their posts and those of others receive.
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Battery and negligence claims against three police officers and a municipal liability claim against the city of Anaheim may continue in a case brought by the parents of a homeless, mentally ill man who was fatally shot by police, a federal court in California ruled.
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Seven officers involved in the in-custody death of a Black jail inmate in Texas whose family members say may have been suffering a mental health crisis have been fired, a sheriff said.
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Keeping inmates in solitary confinement for longer than 15 consecutive days will no longer be allowed in state prisons and jails staring next March.
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The first complaint over the 2020 police killing recounts a single minute of horror preserved by the officers’ own body-worn cameras.
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Covid-19 has done little to alter the ranking of the world’s happiest countries, with Finland at the top for a fourth year running, an annual U.N.-sponsored report said on Friday.
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There is a genuine issue of fact as to whether a nurse recommended that a man — who died from suicide while in jail in San Diego County — be transferred to a medical observation cell, the Ninth Circuit ruled, reviving a suit against the nurse and Correctional Physicians Medical Group.
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Officials this week unveiled reforms that Mayor Bill de Blasio asserts add up to a groundbreaking abolishment of punishing unruly prisoners by isolating them.
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France’s busiest pediatric hospital has seen a doubling in the number of children and young teenagers requiring treatment after attempted suicides. Doctors elsewhere report similar surges, with children — some as young as 8 — deliberately running into traffic, overdosing on pills and otherwise self-harming
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A federal judge ordered more surveillance and remedial measures after finding that California’s prisons continue to violate disabled inmates’ civil rights.
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Last year, a federal judge ordered the city and county of San Francisco to provide inmates with an hour of unfiltered sunlight every week. On Thursday, the city argued before the Ninth Circuit that there is no such constitutional right.
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Attorneys for the five children of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after being restrained by police during a mental health episode, announced a federal lawsuit Monday against the city of Rochester and at least six police officers, alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.
Read moreA reasonable juror could find that Huntington Beach police officer Eric Esparza was negligent when he shot a man seven times, the Ninth Circuit ruled. The officer should have known the man was mentally ill and failed to escalate the situation.
Read morePark Nicollet Health Services owed a duty to Brian Short, who died by suicide after killing his wife and three children in 2015, that “was not contingent on its custody or control of Short,” an appeals court in Minnesota ruled, reviving wrongful death claims against the health care provider.
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A new survey of children in Germany suggests that the stress and depravations of the coronavirus pandemic are taking a toll on their mental health, especially among those from underprivileged families, researchers said Wednesday.
Read moreBy keeping mentally ill inmates shackled in isolation for days at a time, the Connecticut Department of Corrections magnifies the damage to these individuals and causes long-term psychological damage, the ACLU said in a federal complaint Thursday.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court denied a request from a Haitian immigrant with severe mental illness to stay his removal from the country. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, saying he “will be targeted for cruel and dehumanizing mistreatment” in his home country.
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A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S. government has put to death a female inmate.
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