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- Title
Chapter 665: Changing the Process for the Administration of Involuntary Psychotropic Medications to State Inmates.
- Authors
Sem, Rebecca
- Abstract
The article presents information on the scope and the limit of the power of government to involuntarily administer psychotropic medication to mentally ill persons in its custody. It discusses several court cases including Keyhea v. Rushen, Washington v. Harper and Mathews v. Eldridge regarding forced psychiatric drugging of prisoners. In the California Court case of Keyhea v. Rushen, the court held that the prisoners receiving long-term involuntary psychotropic medications were entitled to same procedural rights as civilly committed patients. It provides information on Chapter 655 that states that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) may administer medications to an inmate without the consent of inmate and inmate must give informed consent to psychiatrist.
- Subjects
DRUGS; PEOPLE with mental illness; DETAINERS (Criminal procedure); WASHINGTON v. Harper (Supreme Court case); MATHEWS v. Eldridge (Supreme Court case); PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRISTS; PATIENTS
- Publication
McGeorge Law Review, 2012, Vol 43, Issue 3, p766
- ISSN
1520-9245
- Publication type
Article