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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA
NORTHERN DIVISION
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EDWARD BRAGGS, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
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CIVIL ACTION NO.
2:14-CV-00601 -MHT-TFM

JEFFERSON DUNN, in his official
capacity as Commissioner
of the Alabama Department of
Corrections, et al.,
Defendants.

PLAINTIFFS' WITNESS SUMMARIES, DEC. 5, 2016
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Named Plaintiff Jamie Wallace

• Mr. Wallace has a history of serious mental illness and mental health
treatment since early childhood, as well as intellectual disability.
• Mr. Wallace's mental health treatment prior to entering prison included
numerous hospitalizations.
• Mr. Wallace's mental illnesses result in explosive anger, auditory
hallucinations, and frequent suicidality.
• Upon entering ADOC custody, Mr. Wallace reported that medication given
to him at Taylor Hardin helped him significantly with auditory
hallucinations. The ADOC mental health provider informed him that the
medication was too costly.
Mr. Wallace has been housed primarily in the Donaldson RTU, with some
stays in the Bullock SU.
• Mr. Wallace has been placed on suicide watch more than 60 times.

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- Mr. Wallace has received 10 disciplinaries for conduct related to suicidality,
including self-harm.

0 Disciplinary segregation inmates are oflen housed in the RTU or SU near
Mr. Wallace.

0 Mr. Wallace has made numerous suicide attempts while in ADOC custody.

0 When not on suicide watch, Mr. Wallace receives very little
treatment.

- Mr. Wallace has had very few opportunities to participate in group therapy,
and has had no groups at Donaldson in more than a year.

a Mr. Wallace and other inmates in surrounding cells are not frequently
monitored by either mental health or ADOC security staffthe mental health caseload in the ADOC for a decade.
a -- was prescribed a wide variety of mental health medications.
Spent significant amounts of time in segregation.

attempted suicide and engaged in self-harm repeatedly

-- was, at different times, housed in population, the Residential
Treatment Unit, and the Stabilization Unit.

-- received disciplinaries for engaging in self-harm

Ill. Dr. Ruben Hunter

Dr. Hunter is the medical director for MHM in Alabama. He also serves as the

Chief for MHM within ADOC and has been the provider at
Hamilton Aged and lnfirm. Dr. Hunter's testimony will help provide the landscape
of the mental health system in ADOC and MHM's role in providing mental health
care. Specifically, Dr. Hunter's testimony will address:

- MHM's role and relationship to 

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• The scope of mental health treatment at each of ADOC's major facilities;
• The size of MHM's Alabama staff and the central office
• The size of the MHM caseload and its increase over the last few years
• MHM' s Alabama staff
• The role and number of people in each position
• Each person's caseload
• MHM reporting
• Continuous Quality Improvement
• Mental health codes
• The mental health caseload
• Joining the mental health caseload
• Intake and screening
• Referrals
• Impact of being on the caseload
• The provider corps
• Pharmacy
• Gender dysphoria
• Medical records
• Treatment Planning
• Impact of custody staff on the provision of mental health care
• Residential treatment
• Medication refusals
• The involuntary medication process and involuntary commitment
• Segregation
• Crisis cells, suicide watch, and self-harm

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