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• 8 myths about inmate suicide

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  In the corrections environment, believing myths about inmate suicide can lead to tragic results

• Whistleblower: Calif. prison officials misled judge

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  A report from a corrections psychiatrist claimed prison officials overruled psychiatrists and misrepresented how often inmates were receiving proper care

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• Calif. prison psychiatrist says whistleblowing cost her job

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  “It’s very disheartening, it’s very demoralizing,” Dr. Karuna Anand said

• 9 soft skills every criminal justice professional needs

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  Soft skills are challenging to quantify and measure, but are something that criminal justice employers seek out in candidates

• 'Been there, done that!' The benefits of a teacher who is a scholar-practitioner

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  The convergence of the scholar and practitioner mindsets helps to create informed criminal justice practices, policies, decisions and services

• Experts weigh in: Is inmate unity a direct threat to safety and security?

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  Inmates are constantly pushing the envelope, testing our ability to maintain control of our facilities and looking for weaknesses

• Babies behind bars: Should moms do time with their newborns?

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  New York's maximum-security Bedford Hills Correctional Facility is one of the very few prisons in the U.S. that allow inmates and their babies to live together

• NH prison system to start using Vivitrol

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  The so-called 'wonder drug' is a monthly injection that blocks receptors in the brain

• Thousands leave Md. prisons with risky health problems but no coverage

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  People leave prison without access to healthcare they’re entitled to, jeopardizing their own health and the public’s

• Study: Having jailed parents can have lifelong effect on child's health

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  Tenn. study shows 10 percent of children in the state have had a parent incarcerated

• Paws of Hope program helps W.Va. inmates, canines

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  The skills the inmates are learning will help them acclimate to life outside prison, find work at vet clinics and animal shelters

• Report: 135K Ky. kids have had parent in jail

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  Nationwide, about 5.1M children have experienced parental incarceration

• Ill. lawmakers seek to limit use of solitary confinement

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  Lawmakers plan to reduce the time spent in solitary confinement to only 5 consecutive days

• Ore. inmate who tried to kill cellmate found insane

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  The attacked cellmate recounts being saved by CO who interfered

• Pa. judge rules mentally ill inmate can't be forced to take his meds

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  The case was one that pitted the prison's need for safety against the inmate's right to privacy

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