Lorry is joined by Mari Knight and Catherine Knox to discuss the latest correctional health care news items. New study examines health factors influence on ex-prisoners’ chances of returning to jail The first news item is a study out of Australia that links health factors to recidivism. In this exploratory study of prisoners from seven institutions in Queensland, those inmates…
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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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