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Tennessee inmate’s mutilation highlights prison’s mental health issues

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NASHVILLE, TN — Fellow Tennessee death row inmate Henry Hodges Jon Hall long ago warned he was in danger due to gross negligence by prison authorities, after spending three decades in solitary confinement with very little human contact or interaction. In a federal lawsuit Hall filed in 2019, complaining that he, too, had been in …

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FILE - A woman walks past the entrance to the Wyoming Department of Health headquarters office in Cheyenne, Wyo, on May 24, 2022. Two Wyoming State Hospital patients died while staff at the mental health institution failed to follow proper procedures

Lawsuit: 2 Wyoming mentally ill dead, proceedings skipped

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Two patients at Wyoming State Hospital died when mental health facility staff failed to follow procedures in a series of incidents of choking, neglect and medication error at the past four months, according to a lawsuit. protection & Advocacy System Inc. filed a lawsuit against the Wyoming Department of Health and directors …

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