MOVING FORWARD: Prison Mental Health

MOVING FORWARD: Prison mental health

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Those prescriptions were the majority of drugs used at he jail, Recker said. … There are also residential treatment programs with 735 beds, an adaptive skills residential program with 254 beds and outpatient services for 7,000 prisoners. One of the …
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Delegate Mike Manypenny and Stephen N. Smith: Prison reform should go further

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Or it could help dramatically reduce the 6-month waiting lists for substance abuse treatment, so that addicts are getting help instead of getting arrested. The prison reform report presented by the Justice Center last month is a good start. But in the …
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Rehab-Minded Sentence Needed to Be Checked

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

In early 2010, Armarcion Henderson pleaded guilty to illegal firearm possession, and a federal judge sentenced him to five years in prison, above the recommended guidelines range, to qualify him for "the treatment and the counse[l]ing that this …
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Doctor's application for accelerated rehab going to court

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Three years to the day after 31-year-old Skye Van Epps died of a drug overdose in his Old Saybrook home, his sister plans to go to court to oppose a pretrial diversionary program for the doctor charged with illegally prescribing him drugs. Dr. Scott W …
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