Reports on the filing of a federal lawsuit by attorney Keith Nordyke on behalf of six inmates of the State Penitentiary at Angola against the Louisiana Department of Corrections alleging that prison officials have failed to provide adequate mental health care.EBSCO_AspMental Health Weekly...
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced the change in a February 2017 memo to all wardens, opening an intensely personal new frontier for as many as 40,000 previously ineligible inmates, about a third of the state’s prison population. If married, they can now reques...
Hawai’i. While there, Carri employed critical thinking, creativity and problem solving skills to address the needs and challenges of the inmates. From there, Carri moved to Washington State to work as a Community Corrections Officer, where she focused on reporting,...
pushing and grabbing in a sexually offensive context.” He also said that for 10 years women guards on gun walks have had access only to unscreened toilets in full view of “five tiers of inmates looking down at them.”
Eventually, eleven hostages were released, but the inmates kept the others; one of the hostages who was released, Correction Officer William Quinn, died later from wounds inflicted by the inmates. Russell Oswald, then the New York State Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services, ...
“The prison is secure. Things are under control,” Department of Corrections spokesman Tip Kindel said Friday. Advertisement In all, officers wounded six inmates, including the dead prisoner, identified only as a Latino. The dead prisoner was shot in the buttocks, but prison officials said they...
The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) points out that while states cannot deny inmates medical care when they are unable to pay, “inmates are almost always in an ‘indigent’ mode,” relying on cash-strapped family members to fund their commissaries. And inmates often must...
“They are put in a real work environment, with the same production and quality control as their counterparts in the private sector,” said Tony Ellis, division of industries director at the South Carolina Department of Corrections. In order to work in the program, inmates must have or be wo...
according to those who have had contact with him in prison, including his former manager and a retired guard. But the prison limits what inmates can view. Nevada Dept. of Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Keast said there are about 10 to 15 approved channels — including educational channels and ...
CoreCivic, headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., has a value of $1.44 billion as measured by market capitalization. Surviving inmates or grieving families have often fought for years to reach settlements. Some advocated publicly for their cases, speaking to news outlets and...