Claim: Inmate awaiting mental health treatment dies in Aspen jail.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: HM Prison Winchester
text: deaths in Winchester Prison. Daryl Hargrave aged 22 hanged himself in Winchester Prison on 19th July, 2015, a day after another prisoner at the jail took his life. The inquest into Hargrave's death found adequate mental health care had not been provided, despite repeated warnings Hargrave was risk of self harm. Hargrave had repeatedly self-harmed and attempted suicide and suffered mental health problems from a young age. In the days before his death Hargrave was clearly psychotic and told staff he planned to harm himself according to lawyers. The day before his suicide, Hargrave cut himself and told a nurse

title: McConnell Unit
text: Darrel Wafer, a 40-year old prisoner, was left in a hot shower. Because guards and a nurse did not remove him in time, Wafer died of hyperthermia. On August 1, 2004, prisoner Micah "Mike" Burrell died of an asthma attack. According to Texas Civil Rights Project attorney Scott Medlock, the prison guards decided not to assist him, and 15 other people (by 2007) had died due to negligence issues. Eileen Kennedy, the assistant warden of McConnell at the time, stated that she was unaware that a policy stating that an asthmatic should not be housed alone existed. In 2013, in

title: Natasha McKenna
text: Fairfax County Police -- who are responsible for investigations of prisoner deaths. There were no criminal charges to the officers involved in McKenna's death. The Virginia medical examiner's office made the determination that McKenna's cause of death was accidental, due to excited delirium, but that it was linked to the use of the stun gun. Use of the stun gun was questioned as being an excessive use of force on a restrained person. The use of tasers was suspended by the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office in April 2015. The question of treating mentally ill prisoners was also a focus of

title: Arizona State Prison Complex – Phoenix
text: has a design capacity of 207; another 40 beds are in B-Ward, the Treatment Center; and there are 65 beds designated for resident workers (F-area). The other units are Aspen DWI, a 200-bed facility which opened in 1983 for adult males incarcerated under the state Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) law; Now called Aspen MTU, It is operated as a Mental Health treatment facility for male inmates that are mentally ill but higher functioning. Flamenco Mental Health Center, a licensed 105-bed psychiatric hospital for adult males which opened in 1985 and now is used to house Protective segregation and Max custody

title: Indian Creek Correctional Center
text: of mental illness, such as placing Longmire on suicide watch, or removing bedding and other objects he could use to injure himself. Longmire had been held in solitary confinement as a punitive measure for misconduct from October 5, 2014, until his death, 34 days later. In May 2016, nine inmates suspected of using scheduled narcotics were hospitalized with overdose symptoms. One of the inmates tested positive for opioids. The Virginia Department of Corrections stated procedural changes to visitation by the public may stem as a result of the incident. Indian Creek Correctional Center The Indian Creek Correctional Center (ICCC) is

title: Prisoners' rights in New Zealand
text: mental health is, given it is not a core function of the Department of Corrections. Antonie Dixon exemplifies the failures identified above. In 2009, Mr Dixon committed suicide inside his at-risk cell. This was after several previous attempts inside the same prison. In his final moments, prison officers waited 7 minutes for other prison officers as back up, before entering the cell. It was held by Coroner Gary Evans that had Mr Dixon been correctly referred to mental health services, then he would still have been alive today. In New Zealand, tie down bed and restraints are not allowed to

title: Dwight Correctional Center
text: serve a life sentence. Less than two months later Amanda Wallace, who had been incarcerated for the murder of husband and, after early release, again for the murder of her 3-year-old son, attempted suicide. Using a strip of cloth from her robe to hang herself, she was hospitalized in critical condition and removed from life support on August 2. She had previously attempted suicide using the elastic from her underwear. In December 1997 Ella May Scott, who also went by the name “Kim Ball,” died of an overdose of Elavil that had been smuggled from the prison pharmacy. The pharmacy's

title: Mountain Institution
text: cell while a second inmate, Trevor Wayne O'Brien (25), died of a drug overdose (200 ml of 175 mg methadone, first time he'd tried it) later in hospital. This is not the first time an inmate convicted of sexual offenses involving children has died in this prison facility. The last death involved James Patrick Jones, (55), a man convicted of sex offences involving children was found dead in his cell by prison guards on March 17, 2007. The riot was initiated by inmates in response to what was deemed extreme measures taken to curtail the drug trade within the prison.

title: James Holmes (mass murderer)
text: Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, Colorado. By August 20, 2013, Holmes was no longer detained at Colorado Mental Health Institute; he was transferred back to jail. On February 27, 2014, Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour set the start of Holmes' trial for October 14. However, the trial was delayed to December 8 upon a defense request for a continuance to further evaluate Holmes's mental condition. On that date, the trial was again postponed as Holmes' lawyers asked for another continuance to further prepare their case and review the paperwork of evidence. Jury selection eventually started on January

title: Laura's Law
text: Counties Achievement Award in Health was awarded to Nevada County for the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program. Laura Wilcox was a 19-year-old college sophomore who had been valedictorian of her high school before going on to study at Haverford College. While working at Nevada County's public mental health clinic during her winter break from college, on January 10, 2001, she and two other people were shot to death by Scott Harlan Thorpe, a 40-year-old man who resisted his family's and a social worker's attempt to have him hospitalized when he became increasingly delusional and paranoid. Thorpe was found incompetent to stand

title: Shooting of James Boyd
text: Boyd, 38, was 6'1" and homeless. Authorities said he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He had been a prisoner in the Bernalillo County Jail in Albuquerque and the Doña Ana County Jail in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He had also been transported to a psychiatric hospital. The last lawyer to represent Boyd, John McCall, says he had no doubt that Boyd was mentally ill. He said, the New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute, the state mental health hospital in Las Vegas, New Mexico, determined that Boyd was not dangerous, and also that no treatment existed that would render him competent to

title: Christopher Barden
text: I've ever seen," said Christopher Barden, a psychologist and lawyer who specializes in psychotherapy abuse cases. Barden testified for Jefferson County prosecutors in their criminal case against Evergreen therapists Connell Watkins and Julie Ponder. The pair are charged in connection with the April 18 rebirthing session that killed Candace Newmaker, a 10-year-old adopted girl from North Carolina.” ; See, Janofsky, M. Girl's Death Brings Ban on Kind of 'Therapy'. New York Times. April 18, 2001; Peggy Lowe, Rebirthing team convicted: Two therapists face mandatory terms of 16 to 48 years in jail, Rocky Mountain News, April 21, 2001. COERCIVE "HOLDING

title: Atascadero State Hospital
text: consultants left the hospital following exposes by the LA Times into apparent cronyism. On May 28, 2014, a patient was killed and an employee was severely injured during an alleged attack by a patient. On March 30, 2008, 44-year-old inmate Earl McKee strangled a fellow inmate, 37-year-old Lawrence Rael, to death with a knotted towel. McKee was originally institutionalized as a "Mentally Disordered Offender". Last year, after making abusive threats to other inmates, he was reclassified as a "Sexually Violent Predator". The murder came in the wake of federal court-mandated changes that reduced the usage of medication and restraints on

title: HM Prison Winchester
text: with anxiety and agitation due to his psychosis and criticised failure to provide it. The Portsmouth and south-east assistant coroner Harrold, said due to the case she was “gravely concerned” over the risk of further deaths at the prison. A report is intended. The governor told the jury in 2015, just 41% of staff were sufficiently trained in suicide and self-harm prevention. This has now risen to 61% but progress was slow as because of 'resourcing issues' and the governor accepted this is not good enough. A coroner found neglect contributed to Daryl Hargrave's death. A prison inspection found the

title: Death of Darren Rainey
text: prisoners had also been subjected to a scalding shower within Dade's "Transitional Care Unit". As a result of the police investigation, human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, and the Florida Council of Churches sent a letter to the United States Attorney General Eric Holder, asking for intervention from the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ). In April 2014, George Mallinckrodt, a psychotherapist who worked from 2008 to 2011 at the Dade Correctional Institution's psychiatric ward called the Transitional Care Unit, filed a complaint with the USDOJ about the way mentally ill prisoners

title: Calgary Remand Centre
text: Although, Clifford's cellmate was blamed for his death there was no proof that he was attacker, because he was a convenient suspect. In addition, to deaths in the Calgary Remand Centre, there have been deaths by suicide. A large number of deaths by suicide, one inmate was called Moore, who committed suicide by cutting his wrists and bleeding out. However, inmates are not the only ones attacking or hurting themselves there have been alleged allegations as well about the guards. A guard had been attacked by Dustin Paxton, but he was never charged for this attack. The reasoning being that

title: Miami Correctional Facility
text: of death was homicide. He had requested medical treatment but was denied because he did not use correct protocol in seeking medical attention and his condition was ruled to be a non-emergency. Oquendo then refused the officers' instructions and became uncooperative as they tried to escort him back to his cell. The officers resorted to subduing Oquendo with pepper spray and then carrying him between them into the segregation unit. Oqueno died of suffocation after being placed in a cell by himself. Although Oquendo did have a lengthy list of medical conditions, the coroner ruled that his cause of death

title: Florida Department of Corrections
text: exercises in the sand, heat and provided no water breaks while denying his request for medical help and failed to call for emergency help after the inmate collapsed. The inmate was in critical condition, but has since recovered. Press reports indicate that in June 2012, a mentally ill prisoner was forced into a locked shower by staff at Dade Correctional Institution. After more than an hour in the hot water, Darren Rainey died from his injuries. The investigation is not yet complete. Florida Department of Corrections The Florida Department of Corrections operates state prisons in the U.S. state of Florida.

title: Natasha McKenna
text: mental health deteriorated. Because of the previous assault charge against her, she was restrained with handcuffs, arms behind her back, her legs shackled, and a spit mask placed over her head. During a struggle that lasted over 45 minutes, McKenna, a woman who was tall, was tasered 17 minutes into a cell extraction. A sheriff's deputy used a stun gun to taser her four times because she wouldn't bend her knees to be put into a wheeled restraint chair. The specialized team that was called in to address her condition was attempting to ready her for transport to Alexandria, Virginia.

title: Mountain Institution
text: sex offender and substance abuse programming. In November 2010, Jeremy Phillips (33) was murdered by his cellmate, serial killer Michael Wayne McGray. Inmate McGray pleaded guilty to the crime a year later. This was his seventh murder conviction though he boasted of 10 others. On the night of March 29, 2008, a riot broke out that caused the deaths of two inmates and left eleven inmates hospitalized. The hospitalized inmates had overdosed on methadone that they stole after breaking into the prison's Health Care. Convicted child pornographer, Michael Andrew Gibbon (39) was beaten to death (with baseball bats) in his