City of Philadelphia - File #: 010598

• File #: 010598
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 10/11/2001
• In control: Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety
• Final action: 12/31/2003
• Title: Authorizing City Council's Committees on Public Health & Human Services and Public Safety to hold a joint committee hearing to continue monitoring and investigating the quality level of medical and mental health care services that is provided or made accessible to prison inmates under the care of the Philadelphia Prison System, and further authorizing the Committee to issue subpoenas and such other process as may be appropriate to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents in furtherance of the investigation to the full extent authorized by Section 2-401 of the Home Rule Charter.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Ortiz, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Cohen, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Nutter, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember O'Neill
• Indexes: PRISONS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/8/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	HEARING HELD
10/8/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	RECESSED
9/24/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	HEARING NOTICES SENT
9/24/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	HEARING HELD
9/24/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	RECESSED
6/13/2002	0	CITY COUNCIL	FAVORABLY RECOMMENDED; CONSIDERATION AT END OF CALENDAR
6/13/2002	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED & REFERRED
6/11/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	HEARING NOTICES SENT
6/11/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	REPORTED FAVORABLY
6/5/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	HEARING HELD
6/5/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	RECESSED
5/8/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	HEARING HELD
5/8/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	RECESSED
2/28/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	HEARING HELD
2/28/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	RECESSED
1/24/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	HEARING NOTICES SENT
1/24/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	HEARING HELD
1/24/2002	0	Committees on Public Health and Human Services and Public Safety	RECESSED
10/11/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	Referred
10/11/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Authorizing City Council's Committees on Public Health & Human Services and Public Safety to hold a joint committee hearing to continue monitoring and investigating the quality level of medical and mental health care services that is provided or made accessible to prison inmates under the care of the Philadelphia Prison System, and further authorizing the Committee to issue subpoenas and such other process as may be appropriate to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents in furtherance of the investigation to the full extent authorized by Section 2-401 of the Home Rule Charter.
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WHEREAS, The City of Philadelphia is responsible for providing all necessary inpatient and outpatient medical and mental health services to inmates, or prisoners of the City's Correctional, Youth Detention and Police Facilities; and

WHEREAS, The City of Philadelphia must provide these services in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Consent Decree entered by the Court in Jackson v. Hendrick of August 4, 1988, as revised by the Amended Agreement of Settlement of September 6, 1991 and Harris v. City of Philadelphia (CA No. 82-1847, USDC, EDPA); and

WHEREAS, Pursuant to the 1991 Consent Decree, the City was required to implement nineteen (19) Mental Health Care policies, and a Special Master was appointed and required to monitor the compliance of the Philadelphia Prison System (PPS) with those policies; and

WHEREAS, A January 27, 2000 status report describing the City's progress with respect to the degree of compliance with nineteen (19) required mental health care policies showed that sixteen (16) were "not in substantial compliance" according to the Special Master. Among the many findings, the Special Master noted that there was an unacceptable rate of missed medications and inadequate counseling as well as a finding that inmates identified as suicidal did not receive the necessary observation and monitoring required during su...