Fitness & Health
As more mentally ill people cycle into jails, it’s not uncommon for counties to hold inmates beyond the 30 days the state has to file its treatment plan
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Correctional Officer Nicholas Young donated bone marrow to a 9-year-old girl he’d never met
The law gives local judges the authority to order severely mentally ill individuals to undergo outpatient treatment
William E. Barnhouse was accused of attacking a woman in April 1992 behind a vacant building
The new policies are aimed at steering people with mental health issues toward treatment instead of jail
Correctional officials have said they put the inmates in solitary confinement to protect them from themselves and others
Encouraging more communication between inmates and their families is one way the DOC is helping address the potential for self-harm
I hope to see improvement in how law enforcement manages the mentally ill offender
The findings reflect a trend in recent decades when Maine prisons and jails increasingly house mentally ill inmates who cannot find care in psychiatric facilities
The House of Delegates voted not to confirm state Inspector General June Jennings, whose office has been accused of not adequately investigating the death of Jamycheal Mitchell
SCI-Retreat, the largest employer by far in Newport Township, was one of five state prisons being considered for closure