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11 Oct 2009, 2:13 am
Around two-thirds of all juvenile prisoners have one or more mental health diagnoses and the system lacks enough therapists, leading many experts in mental health to believe the juvenile corrections system faces a crisis.Rather than receiving the mental health [read post]
The post UK committee report suggests community sentences to solve strain on prison system appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
And because prisons are never as removed from society as proponents like to think, these protocols redound far beyond the prison system itself. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 8:33 am by brian
A federal overseer of the state's prison system has suggested freeing the sickest inmates as a way to cut costs. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 2:18 am
Using Muscle to Improve Health Care for Prisoners By SOLOMON MOORE "Never has one person attacked a problem with such force and disregard for political convention as Robert Sillen has the California prison system. [read post]
’s antitrust suit against a competing health care provider and a hospital that Colonial alleged engaged in anticompetitive conduct in a prison health care market. [read post]
22 Jun 2014, 5:00 pm
Under the Constitution, law enforcement officials and the prison system are responsible for the health, safety and well-being of prisoners. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 1:45 pm by constitutional lawblogger
The overcrowding in California's prison system that prevents the adequate treatment of the mental and physical health of prisoners in violation of the Eighth Amendment was the subject of today's oral argument in Schwarzenegger v. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 10:45 am
Then both state and federal legislators must work with prisoners’ rights advocates, prisoners, prosecutors, and judges to reform the system so that its inherent biases are erased and prisoners with physical disabilities are not put in jeopardy simply because of their disability. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 3:46 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
• Texas prisons hold more people with mental illness than our state mental health institutions have patients. [read post]
3 May 2010, 8:30 am by The Health Law Partners
Huping Zhou, a former UCLA Healthcare System cardiothoracic surgeon is the first defendant in the nation to receive a prison sentence for a HIPAA privacy violation. [read post]
20 May 2010, 3:49 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
"Relatedly, see this "white paper" (pdf) from UTMB's Ben Raimer titles "Healthcare in the prison system: A looming fiscal crisis. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 5:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Might universities cease providing health care in the Texas prison system, reverting to TDCJ-employed doctors at the agency's 85 in-prison health clinics? [read post]
1 May 2011, 4:16 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports that private contractors are still seeking a piece of Texas' prison healthcare spending: "Efforts by private companies to get a piece of Texas' nearly $1 billion prisoner health care system are quietly continuing behind the scenes as company representatives make sales pitches to lawmakers and seek changes in state law to authorize privatization," he reported today. [read post]
30 May 2013, 7:34 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Patients with severe psychiatric disabilities go without basic mental health care. [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 6:15 am
Yet, the federal court has found the prison health care system unconstitutional, causing one unnecessary death per week, on average. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 1:01 pm by Jaimie Cremeans
[JURIST] Chinese Vice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu said on Thursday that China will stop taking organs from executed prisoners in the next three to five years. [read post]
20 Sep 2015, 7:14 am by John Floyd
We do not have a solution to the mental health crisis now afflicting the nation’s prison system. [read post]
19 Mar 2020, 6:59 am by Corene Kendrick
Shinn, which challenges the inadequate health care and excessive use of solitary confinement in the Arizona state prison system. [read post]