Lawsuit: Bad mental health care led to 4 prison stranglings
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January 19, 2018
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Counselors at a South Carolina prison wing where four inmates were strangled to death in a cell last year routinely announced a prisoner's mental health diagnosis out loud to embarrass him, according to a lawsuit filed by the families of two of the slain inmates.
The lawsuits said psychiatrists did a poor job treating inmates with cursory evaluations and didn't take into account histories of addictions or other problems when prescribing medicine.
South Carolina prison officials also failed to protect the four inmates they killed by putting them in the same wing with two m...
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