Fitness & Health
After announcing he’d close two prisons amid a $1.7 billion budget deficit, Gov. Tom Wolf plans to shutter residential mental health facilities
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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
Michael Steven Sandford tried to grab a police officer’s gun in a plan to kill Donald Trump at a campaign rally last June
The probe will focus on whether the jail violated the rights of mentally ill inmates
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
Officials said inmates are never denied medical care or medication because of the cost
An attorney for a mentally disabled man serving a 100-year prison term asked the Montana Supreme Court to vacate his sentence