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6 Jun 2012, 2:55 am
" Since 2004, deaths in police custody have been investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), while deaths in prison are investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO). [read post]
17 May 2010, 5:45 pm
Federal law allows courts to order civil commitment of mentally ill and sexually dangerous federal prisoners after their federal sentence has expired if no state is willing to accept custody. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 1:30 pm
In this way, drug court remains part of the penal system while operating with the involvement of the mental and physical health sectors. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 12:28 am
Since I've known him, Charles has received help from the VA (Veterans Affairs) as an honorably discharged veteran and has become a member of Park Center, a mental health agency in Nashville. [read post]
2 Jan 2017, 8:35 pm
If people are truly concerned about safety as related to abortion, they ought to be considering how dangerous it can be for people’s physical and emotional health to be ensnared in the legal system. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 2:29 pm
If someone's income qualifies him for Medicaid, or his children for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), software has to divert him from the ACA exchange and into those systems. [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 6:15 pm
The 65-year-old claimed that he developed health issues, including metal poisoning, after he received his implant in 2007. [read post]
9 Apr 2020, 2:39 pm
On the inside, we are fighting privatized health systems where a Tylenol is $5.00 and testing incarcerated people for COVID-19 is a dream that will not only be deferred, but most likely denied. [read post]
24 Feb 2007, 2:34 am
Also called "mental health courts," treatment courts have been popping up throughout the country in an attempt to deal with mentally ill individuals who become involved with the criminal justice system, but really don't belong in it. [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 11:09 pm
" For the last few years, civil rights groups and local religious leaders have criticized the jail system, alleging overcrowding and poor health conditions. [read post]
29 Mar 2021, 6:00 am
According to estimates by prison officials, that could advance the release dates for over 14,000 prisoners. [read post]
29 Mar 2021, 6:00 am
According to estimates by prison officials, that could advance the release dates for over 14,000 prisoners. [read post]
10 Mar 2019, 8:23 am
Does anybody truly think spending your remaining years behind bars, away from family and decent health care, is a lenient sentence? [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 5:48 am
(Although some still refer to them as Health and Human Services.) [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 12:45 pm
Topics to be discussed include: September 12 Subcommittee A: Prison overcrowding Subcommittee C: Draft legislation relating to gubernatorial succession September 13 Subcommittee A: Prison overcrowding, with Administrator of the Supreme Court Steve Canterbury Subcommittee B: HB 2755, Relating to Mentally Ill Persons (provides that the President of the West Virginia Sheriffs’ Association, along with the Supreme Court of Appeals and the Secretary of the Department of… [read post]
13 Aug 2011, 1:00 am
Did you know that children of incarcerated parents are "five times more likely to enter the foster care system... more likely to have serious mental health needs... [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 9:42 am
The state has hired about 100 parole officers, increased funding for drug treatment and mental health counseling, focused on early intervention and revised its parole system. [read post]
11 Jul 2009, 1:12 am
"It's a problem we sorely need to address, instead of leaving people who need mental health care in prison," said Sen. [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 8:03 am
For example, the federal prison at Butner, North Carolina houses some of the sickest and most COVID-vulnerable people in the federal system. [read post]
26 Aug 2012, 7:34 am
That project is on a 'wish list' of items prison officials would like to have, if the Legislature has extra money to spend — which appears unlikely," Ward reported, adding that:As part of its budget request, the prison system included more than $1 billion in funding for prisoner health care — an amount that will probably be too small.On the "wish list" is a request for another $141 million, which officials said… [read post]
