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6 Sep 2019, 7:53 am by Tarek Maalouf
In his decision, Reeves noted that: On paper, Mississippi has a mental health system with an array of appropriate community-based services. [read post]
5 Mar 2018, 10:30 am
At one Mississippi facility, prisoners with severe mental health issues routinely face appalling and dangerous conditions. [read post]
29 Feb 2020, 6:57 am by Erin Napoleon
Team Roc, the philanthropic sector of Jay Z’s entertainment company, has called for the Mississippi Department of Corrections to address the health and safety risks within 90 days. [read post]
30 May 2013, 7:34 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Patients with severe psychiatric disabilities go without basic mental health care. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 8:15 am
Management & Training Corporation runs the prison, while Centurion of Mississippi provides health care and mental health care to facility prisoners. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 8:19 am by brian
ACLU Strikes Deal To Shutter Notorious Unit 32 At Mississippi State Penitentiary : Facility Plagued By Inhumane Conditions And Lack Of Medical And Mental Health Care (June 4, 2010) "The American Civil Liberties Union and the Mississippi Department of Corrections... [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 3:00 am by Philip Thomas
On October 12, 2011 the Circuit Court of Rankin County, Judge John Emfinger, rendered a verdict and judgment of $333,319.08 against the Mississippi Department of Health. [read post]
21 May 2015, 1:01 pm by Associated Press
Phil Bryant is asking the Mississippi Department of Mental Health to stop providing money to help Oxford House Inc. open group homes in the state for recovering alcoholics and former drug addicts. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 1:38 pm by Suzanne Ito
In fact, two other big private prison contractors — Corrections Corporation of America and Wexford — are already operating the medical and mental health systems in some Mississippi prisons, and the Department of Corrections is well aware that those private contractors are providing abysmal care to prisoners with serious medical and mental health needs. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 12:01 pm
Box 4477 Jackson, MS 39216 Phone: (601) 362-1667 Fax: (601) 362-9180 E-mail: ldams@bellsouth.net Web: http://www.ldams.org Mental Health Mental Health Association of the Capital Area, Inc. 411 Briarwood Drive, Suite 401 Jackson, MS 39201 Phone: (601) 956-2800 E-mail: mhajxn@aol.com Mental Health Association of Mississippi 4803 Harrison Circle Gulfport, MS 39506 Phone: (228) 864-6274 E-mail: Keenminds@aol.com NAMI… [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 8:53 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Over the last couple weeks, we've been talking a lot about East Mississippi Correctional Facility, a violent and dangerously understaffed prison where patients with severe mental illnesses go without basic mental health care and many prisoners cut themselves or attempt suicide. [read post]
10 Sep 2013, 4:29 am by Jon Gelman
The hearing will review accusations of mismanagement at several hospitals, including an inadequate response to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Pittsburgh, the mishandling of mental health patients in Atlanta and the reuse of insulin pens in Buffalo that exposed patients to hepatitis. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 5:32 am by Clarence T.
  The “RID” program is operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections, who describes it as ”an intensive paramilitary program designed to rehabilitate offenders in a short period of time. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 6:00 am by Beth Graham
A Mississippi federal judge has blocked a Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) regulation that bars federally funded nursing homes from utilizing pre-dispute binding arbitration agreements. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 12:43 pm by Will Matthews, ACLU
Prison officials will move all seriously mentally ill prisoners to the East Mississippi Correctional Facility in Meridian, Miss., a facility that is uniquely able to house prisoners afflicted with psychiatric problems, and they have agreed to improve the levels of medical and mental health care provided in Unit 32 so long as any prisoners remain there. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 7:49 am by Jon L. Gelman
Mississippi correctional facility cited by US Department of Labor's OSHA forworkplace violence and other hazards; more than $104,000 in fines proposed The U.S. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 7:18 am by Troy Rosasco
The most significant number of participants with certified mental health conditions—accounting for more than 80 percent of all participants with certified mental health conditions—are responders who are now between the ages of 45-74. [read post]
27 Apr 2017, 1:30 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Rogers College of Law, Promotion of Drugs and Devices: Off-Label and No-LabelJason Smith, California State University, East Bay, Health, the First Amendment and the Ethics of the Patient-Physician Interaction Health Care Financing and Regulation Session 1B – Room 245Developments in Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity: Enforcement, Guidance and ImplementationModerator: Paul Lombardo, Georgia State University College of LawMelissa Alexander, University… [read post]