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Minnesota sheriffs are demanding legal action against the DHS, saying it has violated the law and jeopardized the health of dozens of mentally ill jail inmates

The program is designed to prevent or lessen the effects of PTSD before it surfaces, and help identify the disorder even if it is hiding or lying dormant

Taking care of yourself is the most important step you can take to be successful as a new CO

Federal, state and private funding sources are available for peer support and other mental health and wellness programs within your agency

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

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

Using house arrest more often to ease congestion and seeking a partnership with Clarks Summit State Hospital to provide better care for mentally ill inmates are tactics officials are exploring

A disability organization says the state ignored the systemic abuse — some of it deadly — of mentally ill inmates at the Dade prison

No option of an insanity defense in Idaho

Reforms aimed largely at inmates with mental-health or substance-abuse problems who repeatedly end up in jail on minor offenses