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From Today Newspaper November 15 2006
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Officials Clash Over Mentally Ill in Florida Jails
In one of the toughest rulings to date on the subject, Judge Farnell said last month that he would start fining the department $1,000 a day for each mentally ill inmate who stayed in the Pinellas County Jail longer than 15 days. The judge, based in Clearwater, expressed outrage about the agency’s “conscious decision” to ignore court orders.
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Inmate’s Death in Solitary Cell Prompts Judge to Ban Restraints
Shackled to a concrete slab, Timothy Joe Souders spent the final days of his life naked and lying in his own urine, sweating through temperatures higher than 100 degrees in an isolated prison cell.
Mr. Souders, 21, with a history of severe mental illness, died on Aug. 6 after four days in a segregation cell at the Southern Michigan Correctional Facility in Jackson. His death led prison officials to revise restraint policies for unruly prisoners, limiting “top of the bed” restraints to a maximum of six hours.
This week, a federal judge in Kalamazoo, Mich., said the revisions were not enough. Scolding officials for failing to provide adequate treatment to mentally ill inmates, the judge said Monday that the conditions leading to Mr. Souders’s death constituted “torture.”
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Abramoff Set to Start Prison Term
Mr. Abramoff was sentenced in March to five years and 10 months after pleading guilty in Miami to fraud charges involving his purchase of a gambling cruise-ship line.
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Cheney Asks for Dismissal of Case
Vice President Dick Cheney, asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against him by a former operative of the CIA who says the White House leaked her identity to reporters.
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California: Groups Sue Over Climate Report
Three environmental groups — Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the Center for Biological Diversity — filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in San Francisco, saying the Bush administration failed to submit a national report on climate change to Congress, as required by federal law.
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