St. Tammany Parish Jail

findings of the Civil Rights Division's investigation of conditions Jail to provide prisoners with humane conditions of confinement, including adequate mental that conditions of confinement at St. Tammany violate the constitutional rights of prisoners. In psychiatric staffing, including hiring a masters-level social worker; abandoning its use of enhancing mental health care at the facility. The changes described in the October 2011 letter, of our concerns remain unaddressed.

consistent with or responsive to our critique and suggestions at the end of our onsite visit to the

Jail. In October 2011, Jail officials submitted a letter detailing purported changes in policies, changes at the Jail. In our opinion, these purported changes are both significant and long enhancing mental health care at the facility.

particular, we find that prisoners confined at St. Tammany do not receive adequate mental health to make necessary changes to its mental health care program. Many of these changes are practices, and procedures including in the areas of mental health and substance abuse screening psychiatric staffing, including hiring a masters-level social worker; abandoning its use of to self-administer medications; redrafting the mental health sections of its policies and enhancing mental health care at the facility. The changes described in the October 2011 letter, its deficient, broken mental health care system.