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Head Games
Alan Pendergast, staffwriter for Denver's Westword reports that in 2004, 20% of Colorado's jail population was diagnosed with severe mental illness, and "the true number may be much higher, since some inmates' illnesses are never properly diagnosed." The story compares cost of psychiatric lock-up versus community mental health care. Pendergast advises other journalists doing similar stories should "insist that someone in the accontable chain of command review and comment on the records, even if the actual treatment providers are refusing to be interviewed."
Tags: prison mental illness; correctional systems; lockdown; supermax prison; ADHD; Department of Corrections; forensic psychiatry; head cases; administrative segregation; HIPPA; San Carlos Correctional Facility; Offenders WIth Serious Mental Illness; OSMI; National Institute on Drug Abuse; Mental Health Occupations Grievance Board
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Steel Town Lockdown
Mother Jones reports, "Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world." Since opening the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in 1997, the author writes, CCA has done a poor job of maintaining an efficient and safe prison facility. This article discusses how CCA has benefited from the private-prison boom.
Tags: Corrections facilities; Private prisons; Corrections Corporation of America
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Waldboro (Maine) Weekly runs series on the lockdown at the Maine State Prison and the aftermath of the crisis, June 1980.
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