Fitness & Health
In the nation’s local jails in 2013, a third of all inmate deaths were by suicide, and the suicide rate was 46 per 100,000 inmates
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SCOTUS is set to examine whether Texas is trying to put to death a convicted killer who’s intellectually disabled
The new program is part of the state’s justice reinvestment project to help reduce the number of prisoners and keep offenders from committing new crimes
The report said the jail is placing inmates with mental illnesses and disabilities in solitary confinement as a result of their disability
Offenders who suffer from mental health and substance abuse disorders do not respond well to traditional alternative sentence programming
Jessie Con-ui put federal prosecutors on notice that he plans to use a “mental disease or defect” defense against the death penalty if convicted of murdering a CO
The psychologists all determined that John Battaglia, who murdered his daughters in 2001, is incompetent for execution — but for different reasons
The study found each dollar states spend on mental health roughly cuts 25 cents off its jail expenditures by reducing its inmate population
COs see and deal with depression on a regular basis. It is important to have knowledge, resources and tools readily available