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29 Sep 2015, 10:20 am by Nicole Reustle
The result is a severe lack of accountability for the entire prison health care system. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 4:11 am
Arnold Schwarzenegger [official website] to give its position on providing $250 million this year toward the $8 billion needed to reform the state's prison health care system. [read post]
22 Apr 2008, 4:13 am
It is a 'cautionary tale as to what can happen when states continually let their prison populations grow by passing all sorts of mandatory sentencing laws and parole policies that are tougher on returning prisoners to the system,' says Michael Jacobson of the Vera Institute. [read post]
19 Jul 2019, 1:48 pm by Apsosredesign
She requested an evaluation and mental health help but was told she did not qualify. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 8:05 pm
All suicides mentioned occurred in DECEMBER a bad time for inmates. 1-6-2009 Michigan: A new administrator charged with improving Michigan's dysfunctional prison health care system has a lot on her plate in 2009, but looking into prison suicides must become an immediate priority. [read post]
14 May 2020, 1:24 pm by Erin Napoleon
Seven prisoners in the Oregon state prison system sued Governor Kate Brown, the Department of Corrections and its directors, Wednesday out of fear that COVID-19 would spread among the prison. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 6:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As a result, the mental health care system suffered layoffs along with the rest of the prison health care services. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 11:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's a little more detail on California's deliberations about shifting prison health care to the state university system, modeled after Texas' example and promoted by a company affiliated with UTMB, from the Associated Press:The University of California will form a special committee to study whether it should take over inmate health care for the state's troubled prison system, the chairman of the university… [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 12:17 am
If the panel determines they are, it would have authority to make drastic changes in the system, including ordering the early release of prisoners. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 9:06 pm by Lynn McDonough
Morgan argues that upholding the integration mandate in prisons would force sweeping changes to the system, requiring states to reimagine policies around discipline, security, use of force, and the provision of mental health care. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 3:30 am by Angela Harris
Because of the extent to which prison building and operation began to attract vast amounts of capital – from the construction industry to food and health care provision – in a way that recalled the emergence of the military industrial complex, we began to refer to a “prison industrial complex. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 11:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Denise Deshields, the health director of Texas Tech University's prison health care system, said the new cut could lead to an unconstitutionally low level of care. 'I don't know how we would possibly handle an additional 10 percent reduction in appropriations. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 2:40 pm by Matthew D. Kaplan
It is a trend that has grown quietly – and largely out of sight – over the last several decades, combining many of the worst elements of both our dysfunctional national health care system and the morally and legally ambiguous trend toward privately-run, for-profit, prisons. [read post]
Davis’ move specifically targets processes, the complaints system and management of female prisoners. [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 1:30 pm
With this lesson in hand, we initially banned solitary in our two prisons devoted to people with mental health issues. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 4:32 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
 We must find a way to make drug and mental-health treatment available in Texas outside the justice system. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 11:25 pm
And to judge by the results UTMB has had in Texas, health outcomes under telemedicine are quite poor.But that won't stop UTMB from subsidizing a private start-up firm to market the idea to other prison systems and the private sector. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 7:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
There is sufficient capacity in the rest of the system to close a couple of those units.Grits supports more prison closures whichever way they go. [read post]