The state committed itself to change by entering into a consent decree in the Lippert vs. Jeffreys class action lawsuit on prison medical care in 2018, but an acceptable plan to provide care has never been submitted to the court.
The internal affairs report claimed staff had been trained in suicide prevention policies, and a guard made the required cell checks. Neither was true, and an inmate died.
Advocates hope House Bill 1823 will lower barriers to medically assisted suicide by making it easier for doctors to prescribe medications and lowering wait times.
FARGO - The new appeal by Alfonso Rodriguez of his death sentence in the 2003 killing of Dru Sjodin reveals details about Rodriguez's version of the crime not made public before - an account that includes his insistence to a psychiatrist he didn'.