Mental Health: Polk County Jail is home to more mentally ill people than hospitals or treatment...
The Ledger· 2 years agoIn fact, the organization that houses the most mentally ill people here is the Polk County Jail,...
How many people are held in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails? Now there’s a number.
NBC Universal via AOL· 7 months agoPoor and incomplete data collection makes it difficult to know the full scope of people held in...
Letters to the Editor: Jail drives sane people insane. So why do we let mentally ill inmates...
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTo the editor: Severely mentally ill people do not belong in jail or prison. This also comes several...
California debates solitary confinement in local jails — and whether it's really possible to end it
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAn inmate stands in his cell at the main jail in downtown Sacramento. A California Assembly bill to...
State prison warden banned braids, cornrows and dreadlocks. A Black inmate is now suing.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe February 2021 prison memo sent by Warden Brad Adams was clear. “Effective immediately” inmates...
'Criminalizing the most vulnerable': Should the mentally ill be behind bars?
Yahoo News via AOL· 6 months agoPolicymakers and activists are questioning if jails and prisons are equipped to adequately care for...
Mental Health: After personal struggles, criminology professor advocates for decriminalizing mental...
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRisdon Slate is, by all accounts, a pillar of the Polk County community, a college professor who...
Traveling solitary confinement cell replica raises awareness of treatment former inmate says is...
The Post-Crescent via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAPPLETON – With the sun beaming down Thursday morning, organizers of social justice nonprofit ESTHER...
Mental Health: Polk Vision report shows inmates not getting counseling in jail
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the last year, a grand jury described Florida's mental illness treatment system as “a sad state”...
Keeping the mentally ill out of jail
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPreventing mentally ill individuals with drug and alcohol disorders from ending up in the judicial system is one of the goals of the Helen Ross McNabb Center in Knoxville, said Candace Allen ...
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