Monday, June 17, 2013

Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood shooting suspect, can't claim 'defense of others' - GlobalPost - Prison Psychiatry - Google News

Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood shooting suspect, can't claim 'defense of others' - GlobalPost

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Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood shooting suspect, can't claim 'defense of others'
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Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who is charged with murder in the Fort Hood shootings, is seen in a booking photo after being moved to the Bell County Jail on April 9, 2010 in Belton, Texas. (Bell County Sheriff's Office/AFP/Getty Images). What do ...

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How to Obtain Medical Records, Please help! - Prison Talk

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Here is a recent article that says that some mental health services are provided on a contract: "The department already has a $91 million contract with Virginia-based MHM Correctional Services to provide some mental health ...

Mental Health Services in Prison: A Matter of Public Safety : Life of ... 

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What I find fearful is the fact that in prisonmental health services are reactively based. The mentally ill cannot get help unless he or she suffers from a behavioral episode. The sad thing is that in a deteriorated state of mind, ...

Computer-Based ADHD Assessment Being Trialled In UK Prisons ... 

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A new ADHD tool is being investigated in the UK prison population for the first time. Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London are using the computer-based QbTest; an objective test to assist in the ...

Computer-Based ADHD Assessment In UK Prisons For The First Time 

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A new ADHD tool is being investigated in the UK prison population for the first time. Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London are using the computer-based QbTest; an objective test to assist in the...

One of the Darkest Periods in the History of American Prisons ... 

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In the Florida investigation, federal investigators noted that local prison officials "have elected to ignore obvious and serious systemic deficiencies" in the jail's mental health services. Taken together, these developments shed...
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America's Prisons are a National Disgrace - Feministe 

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Prisons, as demonstrated by the ACLU case, have also become de facto mass institutions for the mentally ill, except without the oversight that pure psychiatric facilities face. With states tightening their budgets, mental health ...

BEHAVIOR AND LAW - General, Forensic, Military and Prison ...

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Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Review of links, news and journal articles on General, Forensic, Military and Prison Psychiatry and Psychology and the related issues of Behavior and Law with occasional notes and ...

Wakefield Prison nurse 'had sex with rapist'

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A prison nurse had sex with a convicted rapist at a top security jail, a court has been told.

Karen Cosford exchanged intimate text messages on a smuggled mobile phone during her relationship with lifer Brian McBride, Leeds Crown Court heard.

Mrs Cosford, 47, of Normanton, who worked at Wakefield Prison, denies misconduct, claiming McBride raped her and then bribed her to not report it.

The prosecution said the married prison worker's actions compromised security.

Mrs Cosford is charged along with three other medical centre colleagues at Wakefield Prison with misconduct in a public office. More

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DC Jail helps inmates vote, a rarity nationwide

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The voters at this southeast Washington polling place were all dressed alike: orange jumpsuit, white shoes. And when they finished voting, they went back to their cell block, not back to work.

Still, voting inside the D.C. Jail looked a lot like voting at precincts around the country.

"What's your name, sir?" poll worker Arlin Budoo said as an inmate sat down at a table in front of him last month during one of two voting days.

The man gave his name and precinct. Budoo flipped through a stack of absentee ballots, found the man's and handed it over. He explained how to darken circles on the ballot to record a vote.

"Remember to vote both sides of the ballot," Budoo said.

While it seemed ordinary, the voting that went on at the D.C. Jail and a facility where women are housed next door is unique. Most states and the District of Columbia bar prisoners serving time on a felony conviction from voting. But inmates awaiting trial or serving a sentence for a misdemeanor, an estimated 700,000 people nationwide, are allowed to vote as long as they aren't barred by a past felony conviction. Full Article

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Inmate dies at Polk County jail; autopsy pending

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FROSTPROOF, Fla. -- Authorities are investigating the death of an inmate in a central Florida jail.

Polk County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Carrie Eleazer says other inmates yelled out to deputies Friday evening that Stephen Harry Grimm was not breathing.

Eleazer says deputies and then paramedics attempted to revive Grimm. The 53-year-old Eaton Park man was pronounced dead at the Frostproof jail.

An autopsy will be conducted. Eleazer says no foul play is suspected and there was no trauma to Grimm's body.

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America's private prison system is a national disgrace - The Guardian

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America's private prison system is a national disgrace
The Guardian
Another told prison mental health staff that he was depressed and thinking about about suicide. The treatment plan from the prison psychologist was reportedly three words: "encourage behavioral compliance". After being asked to provide a urine specimen ... 

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Coming Together on Prison Reform - New York Times

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Coming Together on Prison Reform
New York Times
Increase access to drug and mental health courts to divert more defendants from prison when their incarceration doesn't serve the public interest. Once again, permit inmates to apply for Pell Grants, so that those who must be incarcerated have the ... 

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Moors Murderer Ian Brady at mental health tribunal - BBC News

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Moors Murderer Ian Brady at mental health tribunal
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He wants the mental health tribunal to allow a move to a prison in Scotland, where he hopes to end his life. He and girlfriend Myra Hindley murdered five children in the 1960s, burying some on moors in Greater Manchester. The tribunal is being held in...
Ian Brady in public plea for transfer from hospital and death in prisonThe Guardian
Ian Brady wants right to die in Scottish jailTelegraph.co.uk
Ian Brady mental health tribunal - in tweetsThe Guardian 
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Improving conditions for female prisoners 'priority' says MacAskill ... 

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Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "Most of the solutions to women's offending lie outside prison walls in treatment for addictions, mental health and social care, safe housing, debt management and ...

America's private prison system is a national disgrace | The Raw Story 

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Another told prison mental health staff that he was depressed and thinking about about suicide. The treatment plan from the prison psychologist was reportedly three words: “encourage behavioral compliance”. After being...

Jailers blamed for prison riot - New Zealand Herald

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Jailers blamed for prison riot
New Zealand Herald
Until that is completed, Corrections is refusing to respond to claims that the Killer Beez and Mongrel Mob gangs were involved in the uprising, and to the father's claim that a guard broke his son's arm. Tolley, though, has already suggested honouring ...

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Corrections officials defend record on gangs before lawmakers - So Md News

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Corrections officials defend record on gangs before lawmakers
So Md News
The head of Maryland's corrections system told lawmakers Thursday that great strides had been made in past years to reduce the influence of prison gangs, and that recent high-profile indictments were a sign of progress. “No matter how bad the criticism ...

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Gang threat prompts testimony in fatal prison attack - Concord Monitor

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Gang threat prompts testimony in fatal prison attack
Concord Monitor
The man called in to clean up the blood after a prison inmate was brutally beaten in 2010 is now cooperating with investigators because the gang that carried out the attack has put a kill order on his head, according to an affidavit. Randall Chapman's... 

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Mexican Cartels Tap US Prisons to Expand Operations and Draft New Talent - Daily Beast

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Mexican Cartels Tap US Prisons to Expand Operations and Draft New Talent
Daily Beast
This has become a standard operating procedure for the cartels, which have also begun usingprison-based gangs to do their dirty work. "La Eme (also known as the Mexican Mafia) and the Aryan Brotherhood work for the Tijuana and Gulf Cartels as ...
' It's like a job fair in here ' : Mexican cartels tap US prisons to get ...Daily Mail

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‘Boo Radley’ of the Woods? Not to All Maine Neighbors

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NYT: ‘Boo Radley’ of the Woods? Not to All Maine Neighbors, and other stories

‘Boo Radley’ of the Woods? Not to All Maine Neighbors

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Christopher Knight’s emergence from 27 years in the woods of Maine captured the imagination of people around the world, but some burglary victims remain annoyed.

Chicago Tactics Put Major Dent in Killing Trend

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The police say they are tamping down retaliatory shootings between gangs by using a comprehensive analysis of the city’s tens of thousands of suspected gang members.

When the Bully Is a Sibling 

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New research suggests that aggression between siblings — especially chronic abuse — can inflict psychological wounds as damaging as the anguish caused by school bullies.

At 89, Astor’s Son Wouldn’t Be the Oldest in Prison

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Anthony D. Marshall is scheduled to surrender this week to begin serving a prison sentence for stealing millions of dollars from his mother.

Colorado State Lab Accused of Mishandling Evidence

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A report raises questions about bias, inadequate training and other problems at a state toxicology that could put the results in thousands of cases in doubt.

Coming Together on Prison Reform

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Responses from liberals and others to Richard A. Viguerie’s Op-Ed essay, “Conservative Case for Prison Reform.”
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Sexual orientation, religious freedom and law | Sutherland Daily

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And, “From a public relations perspective it would be easier for the Church to simply accept homosexual behavior. That we cannot do, for God's law is not ours to change. There is no change in the Church's position of what is ...

Priority for Mental Illness - NYTimes.com

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Those of us who worked for years to address mental health challenges in the country should take heart in the effort President Obama is making to deal with the multiple challenges of mental health and psychiatric illness.
One of five people has a psychiatric illness. Suicides are increasing around the country. Large numbers of veterans come home with post-traumatic stress disorder. The defendants in some of our recent gun violence tragedies have shown evidence of mental illness.
It may seem formidable to address these issues at a time when money is so tight. But not every issue requires money. President Obama rightly encouraged people to attack the stigma of mental illness, to recognize the hardships of people who have psychiatric illness and to make services available...

Dr. Herbert Pardes, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, discusses the recent White House conference - 17/06/13 05:00 from NYT > Psychiatry and Psychiatrists: Priority for Mental Illness

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17/06/13 05:00 from NYT > Psychiatry and Psychiatrists
Dr. Herbert Pardes, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, discusses the recent White House conference.

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Priority for Mental Illness

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Those of us who worked for years to address mental health challenges in the country should take heart in the effort President Obama is making to deal with the multiple challenges of mental health and psychiatric illness.
One of five people has a psychiatric illness. Suicides are increasing around the country. Large numbers of veterans come home with post-traumatic stress disorder. The defendants in some of our recent gun violence tragedies have shown evidence of mental illness.
It may seem formidable to address these issues at a time when money is so tight. But not every issue requires money. President Obama rightly encouraged people to attack the stigma of mental illness, to recognize the hardships of people who have psychiatric illness and to make services available.
Many mental health providers are generating novel ideas, including addressing depression on a population basis, using peers to support and assist people with psychiatric problems, and finding ways to restore longtime psychiatric patients in state hospitals to some functional life outside an institution.
We should take the president’s statement and the White House conference as a call to the entire country to put mental health on our top-priority list and to encourage the most creative thinking in reducing the shame and providing the care and support needed.
HERBERT PARDES
New York, June 6, 2013
The writer, a psychiatrist, is a former chief executive of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health.