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Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Corrections with a new Director of In-­Custody Death Review, who will be appointed by the governor to a six-­year term by July 1, 2024. Aided with a new staff of medical and mental health professionals ...
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
it will offer mental health resources in a “crisis stabilization center.”     Additional source: KING ...
than sympathy, noting they have no authority over the Sheriff in jail operations. Streck acknowledged that Trammell should not have been brought to jail given his mental health issues. Yet he insisted ...
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
for the Southern District of Texas. Wellpath is a private, for-profit medical and mental health care provider at approximately 420 detention facilities in 39 states; as PLN readers know, the company is also often ...
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
insurance benefit paid to prisoner Daniel Wallace after his mom died and a $55,700 award from a pharmaceutical firm, whose mental health drug made prisoner Marcell Horn grow breasts. Meanwhile, prosecutorial ...
20, 2022, the then-53-year-old Fisk was experiencing a mental health episode at the Jefferson County Jail (JCJ), when he was handcuffed behind his back by guards. Jail surveillance footage revealed ...
In-the-News Article • February 5, 2015
and advanced training. The budget proposal moves recovery services over to the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and includes a funding boost. The prison's operation budget also includes ...
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Network-NYC TASC & Mental Health Programs, The Fortune Society, the Legal Action Center and the Women’s Prison Association. Since Governor Cuomo has taken office, the crime rate in New York has ...
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Drug Overdose
recommended to determine drug use history and co-occurring mental health disorders. Even if detainees and prisoners are not initially identified as likely to abuse drugs, personnel must follow up and, where ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
(HRDC), publisher of PLN and Criminal Legal News, in its request for records from Centurion of Vermont related to its contract to provide medical, dental and mental health care to prisoners of the state ...
’s worse, she added, is the large number of detainees with addiction or mental health problems who don’t need incarceration but “medical care, counselors, someone who can point them ...
is: This is a prison. This is not a hospital,” said Beatrice Coulter, a former SPU nurse who co-founded Advocates for Ethical Mental Health Treatment. According to the probable cause affidavit, a verbal ...
Article • June 13, 2023
Filed under: Juvenile Prisons
behavior or severe mental health issues. While the bill requires the agency to utilize local resources to keep children closer to home, lawmakers pushed for new facilities after projecting an increase ...
Article • June 22, 2023
Filed under: Escapes
or mental health treatment that money might have bought had guards not let the prisoner slip away and die. Sources:  ABC News, Courier Press, WKBN, People  ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
on domestic violence charges when she was found in a severely deteriorated state in November 2023. After the mentally ill woman was transferred to the local hospital, nurses attempted to brush her hair and were ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
in the general prison population in 2020. The human cost is unpardonable. The United Nations has pushed for a global ban on solitary confinement since 2011, citing significant risks to mental and physical health ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
mental health disorder and suffered an unwanted side effect when his body grew breasts like a woman’s. The pharmaceutical company paid him $55,700, and Bailey filed a petition for incarceration ...
, juvenile detention and mental health lockups across the nation. Under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., the deaf have a right to communication &ldquo ...
; that an MCDC official seized his legal papers in retaliation for exercising his legal rights; and that he was housed with another prisoner who had mental health issues and was loud, which aggravated Morris&rsquo ...
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
on the use of solitary for those under 18 or over 65, as well as those who are pregnant or suffering mental health or developmental disabilities. Lamont worked with advocacy groups like Stop Solitary CT ...
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