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Bonuses among latest moves to improve California’s prison mental health system
Bonuses and better work accommodations for mental health staffers are part of the latest bid to improve California prison ...
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Idaho keeps psychiatric patients in prison, ignoring decades of warnings
Marilyn Sword urged lawmakers not to ratify a system that would ultimately lock away some of Idaho’s most debilitated psychiatric ... Mallory Logan, a prison social worker who works with civilly ...
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Idaho keeps some psychiatric patients in prison, ignoring decades of warning about the practice
Marilyn Sword urged lawmakers not to ratify a system that would ultimately lock away some of Idaho’s most debilitated psychiatric ... Mallory Logan, a prison social worker who works with civilly ...
New Hampshire Public Radio8y
Despite Recommendations, N.H. One Of Few States With Psychiatric Unit On Prison Grounds
two social workers, two psychiatric doctors and two nurse practitioners. Gov. Maggie Hassan says she would welcome a new facility off prison grounds but says the people who work at the SPU - are ...
Sydney Morning Herald20y
Prison boom will prove a social bust
The NSW Premier, Bob Carr, proudly announced last Thursday that this state has more than 9000 of its citizens in prison ... lecturer in the school of social work at the University of NSW.