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• New mental health program in Ind. aims to limit incarcerations

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  Participants will receive mental health treatment and counseling while residing in a work release center

• Treating inmates with withdrawal syndrome

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  Facilities must have a medically based response plan to address this problem

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  Wood, metal and hard plastic brooms and mops can easily be made into weapons – here’s why you need to look for tools made specifically for the correctional environment

• COVID-19 vaccination: The questions correctional administrations should be asking

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  COVID-19 has spread widely in jails and prisons. What vaccine policy options do we have to arrest the spread?

• Nashville sheriff offers mentally ill an alternative to jail

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  The Behavior Care Center is reshaping how the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office helps people who are having psychotic episodes

• Judge: NM inmates can't be penalized for using medical marijuana

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  The order applies specifically to the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center

• Kan. governor wants to transform part of Kansas' largest prison for substance abuse treatment

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  By rededicating existing space, the largest expenditure would be in professional staff to provide treatment.

• Colo. jail uses grant to contract new medical provider

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  The new service will be bolstered by a grant-funded mental health program that will have a new staff member helping inmates with mental health and opioid addiction

• The challenges facing jails and prisons in 2021

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  Correctional leaders should commit themselves and their staff to apply lessons learned from the challenges of 2020 into policies and emergency planning

• BOP: Some high-risk inmates have received virus vaccine

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  Since March, 171 federal inmates have died of the coronavirus

• COVID-19 cases, deaths surging again in Illinois prisons

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  Between mid-August and mid-October, the cumulative number of inmate infections more than tripled and total staff cases more than doubled

• Indiana prisons, jails to receive coronavirus vaccine in Phase 2 of plan

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  The rollout will depend on the quantity of doses made available to the state

• Roundtable: How COVID-19 challenged corrections in 2020

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  The coronavirus impacted all aspects of correctional facility operations – from staffing to officer wellness

• 3 trends that will impact correctional healthcare in 2021

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  Healthcare will remain the largest uncontrollable expense in corrections — COVID-19 has only exacerbated this trend

• Mich. prison staff, inmates to receive COVID-19 vaccine during initial rollout

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  Roughly one-quarter of MDOC staff and almost half of people incarcerated during the pandemic have been infected

• Report recommends ways to reduce density of criminal justice system

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  The report called for COs and incarcerated people to receive early access to the COVID-19 vaccine

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