Lack of Adequate Mental Health Treatment for Prisoners Constitutes Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Abstract

In Disability Rights Montana, Inc. v. Batista , 93 F.3d 1090 (9th Cir. 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court's dismissal of a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim by Disability Rights Montana, Inc., that alleged the Montana Department of Corrections defendants