Predictive Analytics and the Future of Jail Health Care
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‘Troubling’ Use of Solitary in Federal Prisons
March 16, 2015 By Cara Tabachnick
Inmates in the federal prison system who suffer from mental illness are routinely kept in solitary confinement for extensive periods without proper treatment, according to the first-ever audit of the Bureau of Prison’s (BOP) segregation policies.
The 250-page-plus report, completed in December, but not made public until now, detailed numerous areas in which the BOP was failing its mentally ill inmates, but did not offer concrete solutions on how to alleviate the use of solitary confinement….
….A copy of the audit was obtained by The Crime Report. Among the most disturbing findings were:
- A large number of inmates in solitary confinement need mental health treatment, but aren’t receiving it;
- No protocol exists to identify inmates with mental illness who should be kept out of solitary confinement;
- Inmates often receive a mental health diagnosis by medical students or interns who are not trained in psychiatry. Once diagnosed, they rarely receive follow-up reassessments or proper medication;
- No reentry programs or means of tracking for inmates coming out of segregation exist.
The audit was conducted over a period of two years after Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) chaired the first ever hearing on segregation in the nation’s jails and prisons before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights in 2012. Read the FULL Article with links to the report here
De-Incarceration of California youth
Radical de-incarceration article
By Mike Males
Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice
California has undertaken two gigantic experiments in de-incarceration, one of youths and the other adults. They were largely forced on the state by court mandates and budget constraints—but also by some key policy changes.
The first experiment is so radical that even the most progressive reformers could never have envisioned it. California has all but abolished state imprisonment and has sharply reduced local incarceration of youths to the lowest levels ever recorded—by far.
Child Trends Data Bank article
Alternatives to the Criminalization of Homelessness: Department of Justice Resources for Law Enforcement
http://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/DOJ_Crim_slideset.pdf
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