Originally posted 06-02-2010: Janice B Hill, RN, MPH, is a correctional nurse leader with nearly 3 decades of experience with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office in Largo, FL. She is an active nurse educator frequently presenting on juvenile standards for the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. She was instrumental in the development of Florida’s Model Jail Standards Medical Inspector’s…
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Preventing Suicides in Jails and Prisons
Lorry talks with Anne Hanson, MD, about strides made to reduce suicide in corrections. At the time this podcast aired in May 2010, Dr. Hanson was the director of the University of Maryland’s forensic psychiatry fellowship program and chair of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law’s correctional psychiatry committee. She has worked in correctional psychiatry for almost twenty years….
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Talking About Jail Nursing
Originally Posted 04-14-2010: Becky Pinney, MSN, RN joins Lorry to provide an insider look at jail nursing. Becky is currently President, Metropolitan Corrections Systems, for Prison Health Services with multi-facility responsibilities for PHS sites and regions. In her current position, she is responsible for the oversight and direction to facility-based staff for the Rikers Island contracts and other DOC contracts….
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