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4 May 2018, 5:08 pm by William Weinberg
Using data provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the Justice Advocacy Project studied the continuing trend, concluding that the problem is getting worse. [read post]
29 Apr 2018, 7:00 am by Katerina Papatheodorou
For example, during a gathering to protest the appearance of right-wing troll Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California-Berkley last February, radical Antifascists threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at the police. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 7:08 pm by Dan Murphy
In 2014, the Denver Post published a series of investigative articles by Jennifer Brown, who reported that the Department of Corrections, by default, has become the largest mental health treatment facility in Colorado. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 2:25 pm by CJLF Staff
  The date of the arraignment hearing will be announced later.CA Chooses Not to Enforce Sex Offender Law:  The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is allowing 76% of the sex offenders released from state prison to live near parks and schools, in direct conflict with Jessica's Law, an initiative adopted by voters in 2006. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 6:01 am by Administrator
The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) now accepts that long periods in segregation are not conducive to prisoner health or correctional goals—these facts are not in dispute. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 7:52 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Healthcare or other employers should not presume that the EEOC or the courts automatically to accept as obvious or without question that the nature of their business or a particular position disqualifies an individual or class of individuals with a physical or mental disability, past history of injury or illness or other actual or perceived physical or mental limitation automatically for employment in that position. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 6:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The multidisciplinary team [MDT] reviews records of prisoners to determine who will be targeted for civil commitment.The bill specifies that the MDT will include a mental health professional from the Department of State Health Services; one victim services officer from TDCJ; one person from the sex offender rehabilitation program from TDCJ; a peace officer from Texas Department of Public Safety; two people from the Texas Civil Commitment Office;… [read post]
The report sets forth several common sense strategies to reduce solitary in Texas, including such policy changes as: providing training to correctional officers to work effectively with people with mental illness removing seriously mentally ill people from solitary and ensuring access to mental health care for all prisoners in segregation ending the practice of directly releasing individuals to the community from solitary limiting the time anyone can… [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 7:57 am by Michael Markarian
And the Senate committee reports accompanying the appropriations bills for the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security included language sought by Sen. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 4:34 pm by Michael Markarian
And the Senate committee reports accompanying the appropriations bills for the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security included language sought by Sen. [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 7:29 am by Nicholas Tomsho
[JURIST] The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) [official website] has proposed new policies Friday for use of force against mentally ill inmates. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 5:00 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A nearly $2 million settlement agreement with a California-based government contractor announced January 15, 2014 by the U.S. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 10:45 am
According to an ABC News report, the failure by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to find Dugard at a convicted sex offender’s residence has led to changes in the parole system. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 3:12 am by Russ Bensing
— with it being initiated by filing the petition with the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 6:52 am by Suzanne Ito
• Georgia: We supported a reform bill that will send fewer people to prison for low-level offenses and expand drug and mental health courts, among other things. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 12:18 pm by Brian Heller de Leon
The department utilizes innovating funding streams in their New Horizons program to provide mental health in-facility and aftercare treatment in a way that puts rehabilitation at the center of their department's mission. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 6:53 pm by Green and Associates
 If in your youth or past, you had some criminal charges, discipline from employers or agencies, drug/alcohol issues, mental health issues or other life experiences that contributed to the prior conviction/discipline -- your application should reflect your rehabilitation and why you are not the same person that committed those errors and why it is unlikely that these issues will arise again. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 2:05 pm by Daniel K. Martin, Esq.
 Sadly as we were building prisons in California and raising salaries we were cutting social programs and funding for mental health organizations. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 2:50 pm by CJLF Staff
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's projection conflicts with a report issued by a nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's office earlier this months urging the department to seek deadline extensions. [read post]