Attorneys tangle over Tom Girardi mental health hearing date
The disbarred attorney spent about 45 days at a federal prison for inmates who have special health needs to determine his ...
The Independent9d
There are too many women in prison – here’s what needs to change
it seems extraordinary that women in mental health crisis are still remanded to prison as “a place of safety” due to the lack of adequate provision available in the community. These women ...
NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness7d
NAMI Releases Issue Brief Exploring Trends in Mental Health and Criminal Justice State Policy
In recognition of National Criminal Justice Month, NAMI released a new publication, Trends in Mental Health and Criminal ...
She said she felt safer in prison, then she took her life
A vulnerable young woman who said she 'felt safer in prison than in the community' took her own life behind bars after ...
Harlem man who died during NY wildcat prison strike spiraled into mental illness and violence
The man who died in an upstate prison Saturday allegedly at the hands of correction officers during a wildcat strike showed ...
CT high-security prison incarcerates 547. Why correction officers are talking to some, one at a time
A Connecticut correction officer was stabbed in the neck last summer, and deploying a caustic pepper spray on recalcitrant ...
The Charlotte Post1d
North Carolina prisons struggle to meet health care demands
This means there’s a large need for health care services. Changing demographics of North Carolina’s prison population are also putting increased pressure on the prison health care system to meet the ...