Fitness & Health
Mentally incompetent defendant spent six more months in Oklahoma County jail after a judge ordered treatment in Vinita
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Union is filing grievances seeking to reinstate the officers
Bills would address mental health treatment, update the prison code, among other things
No option of an insanity defense in Idaho
These tools strengthen officer’s mental alertness, physical fitness and training
Union: “There is simply not enough staff to maintain order and safely house and rehabilitate the inmate population”
Each day Francis Anderson spends locked up in Connecticut’s super-maximum security prison is another day of “torture”
Agreement is SCDC’s response to a 2005 lawsuit that sought to improve the way mentally ill inmates are treated in South Carolina’s prison system
A legally insane man’s fight to stay at Connecticut’s maximum security hospital following arrests in connection with a series of violent assaults at the facility will go to the state’s highest court Thursday
Facility design tips for safely and effectively managing a growing mentally ill population
About 80 percent of inmates at the Ford County Jail alone are believed to have some type of mental health issue