Fitness & Health
COMPLETE COVERAGE
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
Judge Michael Greenlick ruled Michael Davis has an “intellectual disability” and shouldn’t be executed for his crimes
Gregory Paul Lawler’s lawyers asked the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to halt his execution to consider the autism diagnosis and its effects
Santa Cruz County jail paid $1M to settle a federal suit filed by survivors of Amanda Sloan, who committed suicide three years ago