Fitness & Health
Health officials didn’t follow up with 11 percent of seriously mentally illinmates in the 30 days after their releases despite a court mandate
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Hearing called for testimony about inmates’ status statewide and prison alternatives, treatment, recidivism and efforts to help them recover
Request is part of the DOC’s response to a long-running federal lawsuit over the treatment of mentally ill inmates
The costs for salary, utilities, food and medical treatment are all big
Michael Anthony Kerr spent the last five days of his life handcuffed in a prison cell, unresponsive, off his mental health medicine, and lying in his feces and urine
A civil rights law clinic is looking into the events surrounding an attempted suicide at the Yuba County Jail on Oct. 26
36-year-old James Entrot of Scranton was found hanging in his cell from a noose he made from his bedding
Four at-home exercises that can work both your major and minor muscle groups which require little to no equipment
A report by a mental health researcher is stating that security was at its best when corrections officers knew how to handle mentally ill inmates
Many say that the state is not doing enough
Allowing an inmate to believe that you see the world in the same way he does can make the inmate more manageable and less violent to both you and other staff members
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