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27 Jul 2010, 3:26 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
An overall lack of community based mental health services, which help keep people stabilized and out of expensive crisis care, has led Texas to rely heavily on its mental health crisis system. [read post]
These reports lack detailed information on the nature of confined inmates’  health challenges, categorizing mental health concerns only along a numbered spectrum. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 2:01 pm by Robert Hambrick
One thing is certain, it's not about the quality of medical care to be provided, it's about saving money.Clearly the health, safety and rehabilitation of inmates in the Florida prison system is not the first priority with local decision makers. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 12:12 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
But public and correctional health experts agree that this fear is totally unfounded, and there is no medical basis for segregating prisoners with HIV within correctional facilities. [read post]
10 Sep 2013, 8:20 am by Maya Angenot
Although many prison systems throughout the world have undertaken comprehensive suicide prevention programmes, these are often limited by available resources and, unfortunately, the lack of empathy towards prison suicide compared to other social problems. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 11:50 am by Blake Gaines
Despite the County’s recent efforts to improve conditions in the jails, the DOJ intends to propose a court-enforceable agreement addressing additional deficiencies in the Los Angeles prison system affecting prisoners’ constitutional rights. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 11:50 am by Blake Gaines
Despite the County’s recent efforts to improve conditions in the jails, the DOJ intends to propose a court-enforceable agreement addressing additional deficiencies in the Los Angeles prison system affecting prisoners’ constitutional rights. [read post]
13 Jan 2007, 3:21 am
About one in five Texans under supervision of the criminal justice system have been clients of the state's mental health system, according to the newly published interim report (pdf) of the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee. [read post]
17 Feb 2021, 7:35 am by Milo Inglehart
Committing to no longer use private prisons was a great first step toward changing the federal prison system, but no prison, jail, or detention center is safe during a pandemic. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 11:49 am by Andrew Dat
  And two, allowing abuse to happen to anyone, even prisoners, makes us as a society no better than the prisoner’s themselves and eats away at the moral foundation of penal system. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 5:52 am by David M. Boertje
This ban on private prisons will change the issue of mass incarceration and influence the criminal justice system and the criminal process overall. [read post]
1 Apr 2006, 6:07 am by ACS
I just watched the Frontline episode "The New Asylums" looked inside Ohio's prison mental health treatment. [read post]
26 Sep 2015, 6:21 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Bottom line, TDCJ is counting the number of prisoners "on hand" while the federal number counts prisoners based on their legal status at the time of custody, not whether they've formally entered the prison system or not. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 11:32 am by Kanya Bennett
Experts say that prison systems are like “outpatient clinics,” and “should not weather the coronavirus on their own. [read post]
13 Feb 2013, 7:45 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
On Tuesday, more than 30 human rights, civil rights, faith-based and mental health organizations sent a letter to Juan E. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 11:14 am by Laura Appleman
  We've seen states like California have their prison system taken over by the federal government; seen counties (like Maricopa County, Arizona) go to extremes to cut costs (such as housing prisoners in tent cities, feeding them on less than $2 a day);  seen reintegration services for released prisoners cut to bare bones or nothing. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 6:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
If legislators want to cut prison health costs, they must reduce the number of prisoners, starting with the oldest and sickest among them. [read post]