Mentally Ill Inmates

Attorneys for a death row inmate who gouged out his own eyes after murdering his wife, son and stepdaughter in Texas asked authorities on Wednesday for clemency because he is mentally ill.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Tuesday visited a private home for orphans, elderly, mentally ill and destitute people, and moved by the service it provides to the inmates, he announced a donation of Rs 50 lakh from his personal account.

An inmate of a home for mentally ill women in the city was abducted from road and gang raped after she went out at night breaking a lock, the police said on Wednesday.

When other inmates saw four guards beating a handcuffed Cheryl Weimar outside the prison compound, they initially thought she was dead. The mentally ill 51-year-old woman was limp as the male correctional officers delivered the blows, a federal lawsuit alleges. Her head bobbed along the ground, eyes rolled back.

Following the displeasure shown by the Supreme Court over the chaining of mentally-ill persons in a faith-based mental asylum in the , the district administration freed 22 persons today and handed them over to their family members

A video of an incident in which US police officers repeatedly used a stun gun to subdue a mentally ill inmate who eventually died from the encounter was released Thursday.

Eccentric US tycoon Robert Durst has been transferred to a jail for mentally ill inmates pending further hearings after his arrest for the killing of a mobster's daughter, an official said on Wednesday.

Day or night, the lights inside cell 135C of central New Mexico's Valencia County Detention Center were always on.

California prison officials pledged on Friday to take a gentler approach with mentally ill inmates in one of the largest prison systems in the US after graphic images of prisoners being repeatedly doused with pepper spray in their cells were made public several months ago.

Mentally ill inmates suffer overwhelmingly from pervasive brutality at America's second biggest jail, where guards beat up prisoners routinely, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Many of the 3,300 jails across the US have seen a rise in the number of inmates with serious mental illnesses, most arrested for non-violent crimes.

In one case, a mentally ill New York City inmate hanged himself from a shower pipe on his third try in three days. During that stretch, orders to put him on 24-hour watch were apparently ignored, along with a screening form that said he was "thinking about killing himself."

After a mentally ill Bradley Ballard made a lewd gesture to a female guard at the Rikers Island jail, he was locked in his cell alone for seven increasingly agitated days in which he was denied some of his medication, clogged his toilet so that it overflowed, stripped off his clothes and tied a rubber band tightly around his genitals.

The mother of a mentally ill, homeless veteran who was found dead in a 100-degree Fahrenheit (38-Celsius) New York City jail cell that overheated due to an equipment malfunction plans to file a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city.

Attorneys for a death row inmate who gouged out his own eyes after murdering his wife, son and stepdaughter in Texas asked authorities on Wednesday for clemency because he is mentally ill.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Tuesday visited a private home for orphans, elderly, mentally ill and destitute people, and moved by the service it provides to the inmates, he announced a donation of Rs 50 lakh from his personal account.

An inmate of a home for mentally ill women in the city was abducted from road and gang raped after she went out at night breaking a lock, the police said on Wednesday.

When other inmates saw four guards beating a handcuffed Cheryl Weimar outside the prison compound, they initially thought she was dead. The mentally ill 51-year-old woman was limp as the male correctional officers delivered the blows, a federal lawsuit alleges. Her head bobbed along the ground, eyes rolled back.

Following the displeasure shown by the Supreme Court over the chaining of mentally-ill persons in a faith-based mental asylum in the , the district administration freed 22 persons today and handed them over to their family members

A video of an incident in which US police officers repeatedly used a stun gun to subdue a mentally ill inmate who eventually died from the encounter was released Thursday.

Eccentric US tycoon Robert Durst has been transferred to a jail for mentally ill inmates pending further hearings after his arrest for the killing of a mobster's daughter, an official said on Wednesday.

Day or night, the lights inside cell 135C of central New Mexico's Valencia County Detention Center were always on.

California prison officials pledged on Friday to take a gentler approach with mentally ill inmates in one of the largest prison systems in the US after graphic images of prisoners being repeatedly doused with pepper spray in their cells were made public several months ago.

Mentally ill inmates suffer overwhelmingly from pervasive brutality at America's second biggest jail, where guards beat up prisoners routinely, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Many of the 3,300 jails across the US have seen a rise in the number of inmates with serious mental illnesses, most arrested for non-violent crimes.

In one case, a mentally ill New York City inmate hanged himself from a shower pipe on his third try in three days. During that stretch, orders to put him on 24-hour watch were apparently ignored, along with a screening form that said he was "thinking about killing himself."

After a mentally ill Bradley Ballard made a lewd gesture to a female guard at the Rikers Island jail, he was locked in his cell alone for seven increasingly agitated days in which he was denied some of his medication, clogged his toilet so that it overflowed, stripped off his clothes and tied a rubber band tightly around his genitals.

The mother of a mentally ill, homeless veteran who was found dead in a 100-degree Fahrenheit (38-Celsius) New York City jail cell that overheated due to an equipment malfunction plans to file a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city.