Fitness & Health
The improvements include opening four residential treatment units, increasing staff to care for mentally ill prisoners and reopening the former Joliet youth home as a mental health campus
COMPLETE COVERAGE
Warren Lee Hill was put to death by an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson
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
