In this podcast, recorded in 2010, Lorry talks with correctional health care leader, Becky Pinney, MSN, RN, CCHP-RN. At that time she was President, Metropolitan Corrections Systems, for Prison Health Services with multi-facility responsibilities for PHS sites and regions. She, like so many of us, became a correctional nurse by ‘mistake’ when asked by a relative to work in a…
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An inmate arrives at medical with head lacerations from repetitive head banging against a cell wall. Another is found opening an abdominal wound stitched up after the trauma of a car-chase crash. Still another is admitted to the infirmary having sliced arms and chest with a razor in the shower. Self-injury behavior (SIB) is a misunderstood phenomenon that is quite…
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The statistics on prison rape are shocking. According to the 2013 Department of Justice study, 4% of all state and federal inmates experienced at least one incident of sexual victimization. That is nearly 1 in 20 inmates. My first reaction to the information was to assume this was inmate on inmate victimization, but this is only part of it. More…
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