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No Hearing Required for Emergency Dose of Antipsychotic Medication for Mississippi Prisoner
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2023
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2023, page 52
Filed under:
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Involuntary Treatment/Drugging.
Location:
Mississippi.
by David M. Reutter
On May 4, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a Mississippi prisoner’s claim that his due process rights were violated when a doctor dosed him without his consent with psychotropic medication.
Chaz Pinkston, the Court noted, had “a complex ...
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