What is the test for treating a mentally ill inmate with antipsychotic drugs against his will?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Greene v. Olvera, CASE NO. 1:16-cv-01605-LJO-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2017):

illness with antipsychotic drugs against his will" so long as "the inmate is dangerous to himself or others and the treatment is in the inmate's medical interest" and this determination has been made by medical personnel under "fair procedural mechanisms." Washington v. Harper, 494 U.S. 210, 227-32 (1990). In such situations, to comport with due process, the government must show both the need for and appropriateness of the unwanted treatment. Riggins v. Nevada, 504 U.S. 127, 135 (1992).

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