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26 Jan 2009, 12:24 am
Such bonds, better known as personal recognizance bonds, allow defendants accused of nonviolent crimes to leave jail without having to post bail.The new judges and District Attorney Pat Lykos also hope the new mental health court just established will help with the problem of mentally ill "frequent flyers" soaking up jail space and resources:The idea is to defer those defendants to treatment, rather than to repeatedly jail them for relatively minor crimes such as loitering or… [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 5:51 am
The program relies on collaboration with child welfare, juvenile justice, behavioral health, disability and education systems to develop and offer community-based alternatives for the highest risk juveniles and their families. ... [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 2:57 pm
  Here, the guards simply got in on the action.If we actually cared about prison health or welfare, we'd do something other than gasp when articles like these hit the press. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 1:32 pm
The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care and reduce HIV-related health disparities. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 10:29 am
Instead of the revolving door from prison to back on the streets where psychiatric care is lacking, then back in prison when another crime is committed, these persons can be put into a system where follow-up is mandatory and resources are available. [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 9:00 pm
Sanders first told me that the marijuana legalization issue was not important enough to focus attention on when such weightier issues as health care, the economy and education demand attention. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 10:09 pm
"It's a vindication for the nurses, certainly for the rights of attorneys and for the lawyers who represent people in the labor and health fields. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 5:26 am by Seth Bader
Stephen Catterton, a chiropractor in Norcross, Georgia, was recently sentenced to prison for health-care fraud and possession with intent to distribute testosterone. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 4:07 am
That is a small fraction of the roughly 700,000 prisoners released every year in the nation. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 4:10 am
S 231 Last Act: 01/07/09 referred to codesA236 Greene -- Establishes a drug treatment alternative to incarceration for certain offenders; appropriation No Same as Last Act: 01/07/09 referred to corporations, authorities and commissionsA239 Magnarelli (MS) -- Provides for an increase in criminal penalties for acts of cruelty to animals No Same as Last Act: 01/07/09 referred to agricultureA243 Magnarelli (MS) -- Prohibits the throwing, tossing or expelling of saliva, spit or… [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 6:09 am
***Back at the californiastemcellreport, there's no news about these iPS developments, but we do a flash about Ted Kennedy backing Art Torres:Torres' "years of advocacy for medical research and better health care for Californians will be a major asset" for CIRM, Kennedy said. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 2:50 am
Nowhere is the problem more pronounced than in California, which faces an $8 billion federal court order to improve health care for prisoners. [read post]
10 Jan 2009, 8:53 am
  "He will finally be able to receive the mental health care that we had wanted and begged for from day 1," Bobbie Peterson-Cate, Thomas' trial attorney, told the Sherman Herald Democrat. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 9:29 am
In addition, the price tag for providing health care to inmates must be addressed among soaring administrative costs. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 6:04 am
There reportedly were prisoners who were deprived of sleep for a dozen days, and other prisoners deprived of sleep for 96 hours in a row. [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]
4 Jan 2009, 10:24 am
In general, older inmates require more supervision and medical and mental-health care, as well as special diets, mobility aids and special housing. [read post]
2 Jan 2009, 8:01 pm by Dennis Wilkins
With all due respect to those who are working under the federal receivership to reform prison medical care, most of the systemic issues that underlie substandard care have, in our clients' experience, remained essentially unchanged. [read post]