Recently I was contacted by the wife of an inmate about his poor medical care. He is currently in a state prison. She wanted to interest a legal firm in taking on the case and was wondering what information she would need to gather. One of the first things I asked was about the actions her husband had already taken…
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Live at the American Correctional Health Services Association National Conference in historic Philadelphia, panelists Inez Tann, Denise Panosky, Deborah Shelton,Catherine Knox, Sue Smith, Gayle Burrow, and JoRene Kerns discuss this month’s top correctional health care news stories. As states cut mental health care funding, prisons are becoming asylums In past episodes we have discussed the growing mental health issue in…
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Episode 51 of Correctional Nursing Today is our monthly news round-up for February, 2013. Panelists include Gene Lincoln, BSN, MS, CCHP, Senior Manager, Clinical Education and Training for Corizon Health, Inc. and Gail Normandin-Carpio, a correctional nurse consultant with administrative, and corporate-level experience in prison, jail and juvenile systems mainly in the north eastern states. Our first story is about…
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