Many of us have been closely watching the unfolding events surrounding the NY Prison Break over the last month. Here is a timeline of events, concluding with the death of convicted killer Matt and the shooting and capture of convicted killer Sweat in upstate New York. Early in the story Joyce Mitchell, a prison worker who managed the tailor shop…
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Sonya Khilnani, PhD, CCHP, a licensed clinical psychologist and behavioral health manager for Corizon in Brentwood, TN, joins Lorry to talk about compassion fatigue in correctional health care practice. This was the topic of an article she wrote for the Spring 2015 CorrectCare magazine. Telltale Signs of Compassion Fatigue We are in a ‘sea of trauma’ in the correctional setting…
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CJ Young, Sue Smith, and Gayle Burrow join Lorry to talk about the latest correctional health care news. Mentally ill inmate died of water intoxication in Michigan prison, lawsuit says In the first story, a mentally ill inmate in a Michigan prison died of water intoxication caused by psychogenic polydipsia. He was a severe schizophrenic. It is only a brief…
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