Gina over at the CodeBlog recently interviewed me about correctional nurse life. She asked some interesting questions about what we do in corrections and how care is organized. Check out the post for the full interview. She is interviewing nurses working in unusual specialties for an ongoing series. Correctional Nursing does qualify as an unusual specialty. Very few children say…
Read More
Top Correctional Health Care News from 2010
This article was originally published by CorrectionsOne.com Editor’s note: This article is part of the 2010 CorrectionsOne End of the Year Report. Please visit the main page for the end of the year report here. Several correctional health care news stories top the list as we near the end of the first decade of the 21st century. These stories define…
Read More
Sex Offender Rehabilitation
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM8SoCBiNu4] This video describes the sex offender treatment program in Washington State. 95% of sex offenders are eventually released back into the community. There are several current treatment models in use as described by this Canadian source. Treatment is needed to reduce recidivism, but sex offenders are usually the most vulnerable to inmate on inmate violence and entering a program…
Read More