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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The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Justice Department to carry out the first execution of a female death-row inmate in almost seven decades.
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Citing the differences between mentally unwell unaccompanied minors and pre-trial immigrant detainees, an appeals court revived a challenge against a rural Virginia juvenile detention facility Tuesday.
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A judge has halted the U.S. government’s first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades, saying a court must first determine whether the Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother, cut the baby from her womb and then tried to pass off the newborn as her own is mentally competent.
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Citing concerns for the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health, a British judge on Monday rejected America’s request to extradite Julian Assange.
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To play through a pandemic, players had to sacrifice much of their lives away from the game along with some of the best aspects of being part of a team.
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A major increase in self-harm and mental health conditions has accompanied the coronavirus lockdown in Greece’s migrant camps, a prominent aid group said Thursday.
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An attorney for a Georgia sheriff asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to overturn an order ending a jail’s policy of holding mentally ill women in solitary confinement up to 24 hours a day in disturbing conditions.
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Chiding the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a death sentence for a man who killed his gambling buddy over some casino losses.
Read moreA federal court in California denied in part two San Francisco police officers’ motion for summary judgment in an excessive force case in which the officers used pepper spray and a baton and shot a mentally ill man on his front porch after he yelled and cursed at them to go away.
Read moreAt 339, Allegheny County’s use last year of a restraint chair on pretrial detainees “was almost four times more per capita than all other jails in Pennsylvania,” according to a federal complaint by three women with mental or physical disabilities who were jailed ahead of trial.
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Lockdowns that France has used to fight the coronavirus have come at considerable cost to mental health. Surveying points to a surge of depression most acute among people without work, in financial hardship and young adults.
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The family of a Black man who suffocated under the weight of five Chula Vista Police officers responding to a mental health call by the man’s daughter this past March, filed a wrongful death suit in state court Tuesday.
Read moreTwo Gretna, Louisiana, police officers who beat and tased an unarmed man with paranoid schizophrenia — who became unresponsive and died two days later — are not entitled to qualified immunity on excessive force claims, the Fifth Circuit ruled. The man, who was not suspected of any crime, was curled in a fetal position and did not struggle against the officers, called for his mother and pleaded for someone to “call the real police” as he sustained 26 blunt-force injuries.
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