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Wolf commended both sides for reaching an agreement on the key issues that ‘at times are literally issues of life or death.’ |
Deal reached on treatment of state’s mentally ill inmates
Years after an alarming series of suicides by inmates in state prison segregation units, the state Department of Correction has reached a landmark agreement with advocate groups to better care for prisoners with severe mental illnesses. The agreement, which still needs a judge’s final approval, calls for the Department of Correction to maintain two new units at high-level security prisons as alternatives to disciplinary segregation for prisoners with mental illness, according to court records.
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