Fitness & Health
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
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After announcing he’d close two prisons amid a $1.7 billion budget deficit, Gov. Tom Wolf plans to shutter residential mental health facilities
The grant will help create clinic and intake support teams to dually assist inmates with mental health needs and provide reinforcement to COs during peak incident times
More than 50 people sent a letter to the governor asking him to support Ricky Gray’s request to have his sentence commuted to life in prison
One of the most important factors necessary for good mental health is resilience
More than a quarter of the state’s 35 death row inmates have evidence of an intellectual disability or traumatic brain injury
Both sides agree that steps to improve mental health care in jails would be expensive
Multiple Mecklenburg County commissioners are voicing concerns about the practice of putting 16- and 17-year-olds in solitary confinement for long periods
Attorneys say an inmate who killed himself received no counseling before taking his own life
The state has denied during the trial that Alabama inmates receive inadequate mental health treatment
A remaining challenge for IDOC is employing about 400 new staff needed for the expanded mental health system