Braggs v. Dunn

Myron H. Thompson, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

*1342On June 27, 2017, the court issued a liability opinion in which it found that the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC)'s provision of mental-health care to prisoners violates the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That opinion noted "substantial evidence ... that ADOC is not conducting adequate periodic mental-health assessments of prisoners in segregation." Braggs v. Dunn , 257 F.Supp.3d 1171, 1249 (M.D. Ala. 2017) (Thompson, J.). The court, "out of an abundance of caution and exercising its discretion," reserved its judgment and…