Last summer, Ms. Shortt coordinated a training session in which Mr. Armstrong from Twin Towers and another mental health assistant Zoomed in to talk with state prison nursing staff, among others.

She said two psychiatrists and two nurse practitioners were available to release the women. The correctional system is pivoting away from using psychologists for mental health assessment and ...

Jordan said nurses were not using the ... is the best he’s ever experienced, prison staff has repeatedly threatened to take away his mental health treatment if he testified against the state.

Her son had died at the state prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit, a place where he was supposed to be getting help, after a mental health crisis ... Officers and nurses who were present told ...

and the Centurion nurse said she gave Gomez a mental-health assessment according to correctional staff instructions. Gomez's lawsuit was dismissed. "The Eighth Amendment," the judges wrote ...

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment ... National Commission on Correctional Health Care and fellow ...

Nurses are being bashed by unguarded, violent prisoners in Queensland hospital psychiatric units, under laws that mean prison officers have no jurisdiction in the state’s public mental health wards.

“We recognize the challenges facing correctional healthcare in Oregon ... such as physicians, nurses, mental health practitioners and support staff” and make upgrades to its records management ...