Prisoners who qualify — excluding inmates sentenced to death or life without parole — can be placed in a community health ...

Despite the cognitive issues, Stephen's family claim he was not told his calls weren't connecting when he tried to ring and ...

California has halted a court-ordered medical parole program, opting instead to send its most incapacitated prisoners back to ...

Prison nurse: Prison nurses provide care, treatment and health education to prisoners. Working as a prison nurse, you would provide primary healthcare and mental health support to prisoners and may be ...

The lawsuit, filed with the help of the Uptown People’s Law Center, claims the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) relies on isolation, violence and discipline in place of actual mental health ...

The officer found the man inside the property and handcuffed him before leading him outside, where he was to be taken to hospital for a mental health assessment. READ MORE: Essex crossroads used by ...

When the criminal justice system becomes a revolving door for people with mental illness, no one wins — not the person in crisis, not the taxpayer, not the community. That’s ...

Katie Dickenson, a Senior Charge Nurse at Ward 1 Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit (IPCU) was nominated in the mental health category for her exceptional leadership in transforming culture and staff ...

We must do all we can to remove barriers to treatment if we are going to improve upon the ranking Nevada currently holds.

Only six tools have published replication studies with independent samples: the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen (BJMHS), the Correctional Mental Health Screen for Men (CMHS-M), the Correctional ...