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28 Jul 2012, 6:32 am
The story by Lomi Kriel, opened:Texas health officials recommended levying more than $100,000 in fines against the state's first publicly funded, privately run psychiatric hospital in Conroe for violations including the improper restraining and inadequate monitoring of patients and other infractions committed in its first year.County leaders who oversee the Montgomery County Mental Health Treatment facility and officials with GEO Group, a prison company… [read post]
4 May 2012, 6:10 pm
Prisoners with mental disabilities are treated inhumanely in most nations, both in correctional facilities and in forensic mental health facilities. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 3:06 pm
In 2007, she was promoted to Mental Health Clinical Program Head for the women’s programs at Twin Towers Correctional Facility. [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 7:00 pm
David Self, chief forensic psychiatrist for the Rusk State Hospital. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 5:43 am
“Keeping incompetent pretrial criminal defendants confined in county jail for unreasonable periods of time prior to being admitted to a state mental health facility or residential health facility violates the incompetent detainees’ due process rights as guaranteed by the Texas Constitution,” Naranjo wrote last month, ruling against the state in a civil case.Naranjo’s ruling comes as something of a wakeup call for the state,… [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 8:43 am
" They suggest increasing line items for community mental health services to preserve matching funds for federal block grants and restoring prior levels of funding for probation/diversion programs, TCOMMI (mental health) funding, and drug treatment. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 9:46 am
They fear that cuts by the Legislature to mental health services will further shift costs to Harris County (and by extension, all counties), citing a similar outcome after budget cuts in 2003:A prime example of cost shifting has occurred within the Harris County Jail, now the largest mental health facility in Texas. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:45 am
Their treatment mission never really materialized and recidivism rates from the facilities are far higher than other inmates leaving TDCJ.Critiquing carceral mental-health careThe largest mental hospitals in Texas are all jails and prisons. [read post]
20 Sep 2012, 6:54 am
Gibson sought in forma pauperis status because he could not afford to file his lawsuit, which alleged that officials at Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Facility violated his civil rights. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 2:37 pm
If the offender is found by the court to be a "dangerous sex offender requiring confinement", the offender is placed in a secure mental health facility. [read post]
22 Jul 2012, 9:45 am
So this project had no public vetting by the Lege on the front end and hasn't operated up to state standards since it opened.No doubt, Texas needs more forensic beds at state mental hospitals, but this back-room privatization deal was more about pork than policy. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 11:43 am
Maman has held various posts in the areas of mental health and criminal justice. [read post]
21 Jul 2014, 1:21 pm
She testified that she had previously worked in New York State at the Central New York Psychiatric Center treating and evaluating sex offenders and had also worked at the Albany Correctional Facility, as the Acting Coordinator of the Mental Health Unit, where she did sex offender evaluation and provided some crisis intervention treatment while supervising a staff of eight. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 1:01 am
Jim Van Norman, medical director for the Austin Travis County Mental Health Mental Retardation Center. [read post]
27 May 2012, 8:01 am
You better believe it.At the Austin Statesman, Eric Dexheimer has a pair of excellent stories on competency restoration, one of which describes a mentally ill defendant - never convicted - held more than 20 years pretrial because he cannot be kept competent long enough to stand trial ("Defendants fill, linger in state's mental health facilities," May 27). [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 1:05 pm
As a result, the judge, now aware of his mental health history, conducted a hearing and found that Mario was not competent to represent himself. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 3:19 pm
The problem is, if they're in jail, and not a mental health facility, we're only taking care of one part of problem," Varga said.Money also is an issue. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 11:22 am
These were inmates who died working for the Imperial Sugar company through Texas' old convict leasing program.Graham PD criticized for tazing autistic manExperts say police should have talked to the man longer and perhaps noticed signs of his disability instead of just tazing him and taking him into custody.Wishful thinking not a strategy on mental health"The Harris County sheriff’s office doesn’t want its jail to be the largest mental health… [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 2:59 pm
If the offender is found by the court to be a "dangerous sex offender requiring confinement", the offender is placed in a secure mental health facility. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 12:00 pm
Because, obviously, there are no bigger problems for DPS to confront.GEO buys Montgomery County mental-health unitMontgomery County has chosen to sell a forensic mental health facility to the GEO Group, a private prison firm. [read post]
