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11 Sep 2009, 7:06 am
The prospect of multiple prison closings alarmed critics who say the system is already dangerously overburdened. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 2:00 pm
The university:announced in an internal memo sent to employees Tuesday that 130 jobs would be cut from its prison-system health services and 120 jobs from academic, health and support services.The memo from UTMB President David Callender said the reductions were made to compensate for $114 million the Legislature slashed from the medical school's 2012 budget.The prison system jobs would be lost at prisons statewide that are… [read post]
6 Dec 2006, 7:08 pm
"What he does not deserve is a de facto and unauthorized death penalty at the hands of a callous and dysfunctional health care system that regularly fails to treat life-threatening illness," Enslen wrote. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 2:17 pm
Texas set up a new jail system a quarter of a century ago intended to keep low-level drug offenders out of the state’s overcrowded prisons. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 2:17 pm
Texas set up a new jail system a quarter of a century ago intended to keep low-level drug offenders out of the state’s overcrowded prisons. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 2:28 pm
As the report noted, “[i]nhumane detention conditions have long plagued Egypt’s prisons, adversely affecting prisoners’ enjoyment of their right to health. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 8:49 am
Many people in prisons and jails are in relatively poor health and suffer from serious chronic conditions due to lack of access to healthcare in the community, or abysmal healthcare in the correctional system. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 11:00 am
There's been lots of MSM coverage over the last month regarding mental health and the Texas criminal justice system. [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 2:29 am
2-10-2009 California: The California prison system must reduce overcrowding by as many as 55,000 inmates within three years to provide a constitutional level of medical and mental health care, a federal three-judge panel tentatively ruled Monday. [read post]
14 Jun 2009, 9:23 am
Last year, California's overseer of the state's prison health care system petitioned for $8 billion over the next five years to build seven advanced medical facilities for inmates throughout the state. [read post]
18 May 2020, 6:44 am
Community groups have pointed out the social costs of the prison system for decades. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 10:45 am
Prison labor also raises additional concerns beyond prisoner health and safety. [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 6:07 am
Under the Constitution, law enforcement officials and the prison system are responsible for the health, safety and well-being of prisoners. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 10:50 am
To quote Attorney General Barr, “The mission of BOP (Bureau of Prisons) is to administer the lawful punishments that our justice system imposes. [read post]
19 May 2010, 6:08 am
"RELATED:UTMB threatens to cancel prison healthcare contractAs Texas' prison health system falters, will California follow suit? [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 9:17 am
2-3-2009 New Jersey: The pilot "telepsychiatry" program provides mental health screenings on a television conference system with a doctor available at any hour. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 8:58 am
Reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("After Ike damaged Galveston hospital, prisoners shipped elsewhere in Texas," Nov. 14)Brad Livingston, the prison system's executive director, said administrators at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have promised to reopen some of the prison hospital's 365 beds later this month, but a full reopening is indefinite. [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 11:05 pm
Court Orders California to Cut Prison Population"The California prison system must reduce overcrowding by as many as 55,000 inmates within three years to provide a constitutional level of medical and mental health care, a federal three-judge panel tentatively ruled Monday.Relying on expert testimony, the court ruled that the California prison system, the nation's largest with more than 150,000 inmates, could reduce its population by… [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 1:38 pm
In fact, two other big private prison contractors — Corrections Corporation of America and Wexford — are already operating the medical and mental health systems in some Mississippi prisons, and the Department of Corrections is well aware that those private contractors are providing abysmal care to prisoners with serious medical and mental health needs. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 12:27 pm
Transfer severely and/or chronically mentally ill prisoners to state agencies responsible for mental health treatment. [read post]
