Corrections Today articles from August 2001

Corrections Today archives from August 2001

Correctional Health: Today's and Tomorrow's Challenge.(new health mandate in correctional institutions, United States)(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... James A. Gondles Jr. In a profession in which change is the norm rather than the exception, nothing has been more challenging than the issue of health care in corrections. The American Correctional Association (ACA) is taking the lead in...

An Overview of Correctional Mental Health Issues.(United States)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Correctional leaders often are faced with two difficult questions regarding mental health: Why should treatment be offered to mentally ill offenders? And how much should be spent? The best response is that offering treatment promotes safer...

SMRT Architecture Engineering Planning.(designs correctional institutions, United States)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Profile SMRT Architecture Engineering Planning is a full-service architecture and engineering firm with regional offices in the Northeast, middle Atlantic and southeastern United States. Founded in 1883 by John Calvin Stevens, an architect...

Possible Increase in Canada's Inmate Population.(Edmonton Journal)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... Canada's prison population may show a dramatic increase due to a "new breed of international convicts," according to the Edmonton Journal. A report released by the solicitor general's department predicts that international courts may be sending...

Budget Effects for Youths.(United States Department of Justice allocations down)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... Despite the fact that President Bush's budget will provide almost the same level of funding for the Department of Justice (DOJ), many programs that serve youths are being cut, according to Youth Today. Funding for missing children has decreased...

U.S. Violent Crime Rate Drops.(United States)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... America's violent crime rate dropped nearly 15 percent last year -- the largest one-year decline ever recorded by the DOJ's National Crime Victimization Survey, reports the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The report, Criminal Victimization...

Vermont Instructor Teaches Inmates to Build, Build, Build a Boat.(Adam Vincelette, Northwest State Correctional Facility, St. Albans, Vermont)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... When students from the woodworking class at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, Vt., wanted to build something more challenging than jewelry boxes and CD holders, vocational instructor Adam Vincelette gave it to them -- a...

ACCA: Enhancing Inmates' Spiritual Lives.(American Correctional Chaplains Association)
August 1, 2001... "Of all reformatory agencies, religion is of first most importance, because [it is] most potent in the influence upon the heart and life," wrote the Rev. Enoch Cobb Wines, secretary of the American Correctional Association (ACA), in 1870...

Auditing Performance-Based Health Care Standards.(David Wade Correctional Center, Homer, Louisiana)(Brief Article)(Column)
August 1, 2001... Editor's Note: The following is an edited version of an article that appeared in the Correctional Accreditation Association of Ohio newsletter, CAAO Standard. Last November, I was given the opportunity to join Barbara Skeen, quality...

Whither the ADA and Corrections?(Americans with Disabilities Act and correctional institutions)
August 1, 2001... Patricia Garrett, a former nursing director at University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, and Milton Ash, a security officer for the Alabama Department of Youth Services, brought separate suits in federal district court seeking damages...

THE CITY THAT CONTINUES TO MAKE HISTORY.(Philadelphia)
August 1, 2001... Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ACA's 131st Congress of Correction August 11-16, 2001 Although many historic events have taken place in Philadelphia since the Liberty Bell first rang out from the tower of Independence Hall in 1776, the City...

Coordinating Effective Health And Mental Health Continuity of Care.
August 1, 2001... Consider the case of M. Johnson, a 42-year-old inmate who has been HIV positive since 1992. He has a history of intravenous drug use, multiple sex partners and a past medical history of PCP pneumonia, herpes genitalia, chlamydia and one major...

Making Correctional Health Care Smarter.(computerized patient records)
August 1, 2001... Invariably, during every critical event within an organization, there comes a time when information that will solve or alleviate the situation is unknown to the people who need to make the decisions. Making health care organizations smarter is...

Growing Population of Mentally III Offenders Redefines Correctional Facility Design.
August 1, 2001... In 1998, the Los Angeles County Jail, one of the largest in the country, earned another distinction when a March 5 New York Times article, "Asylums Behind Bars," labeled it the nation's largest mental institution. Needless to say, the report...

Psychiatric Aspects of Hepatitis C Treatment in Prison.
August 1, 2001... In response to concerns about the increasing number of inmates being diagnosed with hepatitis C, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) formed a select committee in 1999 to address issues of proper diagnosis and treatment of this...

Schizophrenic Inmate Executed in Ohio.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Ignoring local and international protests, Ohio executed a man in June who, according to his lawyers, was a schizophrenic too mentally ill to understand what was happening to him, according to a June 15 Reuters report. Convicted of...

Bill Addresses Transfer Of Death Row Inmates.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Acknowledging the problems created by San Quentin Prison's dilapidated and crowded death row, the California State Assembly approved a bill last month to move some condemned inmates to Folsom Prison in Represa, Calif., according to the San...

Using Algorithms and Protocols In Diagnosing and Treating Offenders With Mental Health Disorders.
August 1, 2001... Offenders with psychiatric problems present a unique dilemma identifying, managing and treating psychiatric conditions. The mentally ill offender population is steadily increasing as public programs are scaled back throughout the United States....

CORRECTIONAL Nursing PRACTICE: What Makes This Practice Different?
August 1, 2001... Correctional nursing practice is not for the fainthearted but can be quite manageable with a common sense approach. The obvious difference between correctional and noncorrectional nursing is the patient we care for. Or is it? Perhaps it is...

Suicide Prevention In a Large State Department of Corrections.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... We face a global suicide epidemic: Worldwide, for people between ages 15 and 44, suicide is the second-largest killer of women, alter tuberculosis, and the fourth-largest killer of men, following traffic accidents, tuberculosis and violence,...

MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING in Juvenile Justice: A NECESSITY.
August 1, 2001... Large numbers of mentally ill juvenile offenders continue to enter into and remain involved with the juvenile justice system. The exact number is unknown, however, it is clear that the prevalence of mental health disorders is higher among...

The First Program.(parole for mentally ill)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... According to the Forensics Interagency Task Force, one of the strongest arguments for denying parole to people with serious and persistent mental illnesses is their potential for violence. That fear exists regardless of an individual's prior...

Medical Treatment and Mentally Incompetent Inmates.
August 1, 2001... Health care is one of many challenges facing prison administrators today. Longer mandatory senttences fewer early releases and an overall "graying" of the American population have led to a steady increase in the number of inmates older than 50....

Issues Impacting Today's Geriatric Female Offenders.
August 1, 2001... In 1999, it was estimated that 125,000 inmates would be 50 or older by 2000, while 35,000 would be older than 65, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Due to this influx of elderly offenders, it is critical that designers,...

MISSION SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE: COMMUNITY PLACEMENT OF CHRONIC CARE INMATES.
August 1, 2001... What weighs 20.2 pounds, is 10 inches wide, 12 inches deep and 12 inches high? A. A block from a pre-20th century prison. B. A file of an inmate who has a lengthy violet offense rap sheet, multiple medical conditions and a phychiatric...

MANAGING ANGOLA'S LONG-TERM INMATES.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... It is crucial that a correctional administrator knows the makeup of his or her inmate population. There currently are 5,108 male inmates from all areas of Louisiana, from all walks of life, housed on 18,000 acres of the state's most historic...

Corrections Mourns Joseph R. Rowan.(Obituary)
August 1, 2001... On May 4, 2001, when Joseph Rowan lost his battle with cancer, corrections lost one of its most tireless and effective leaders. During a career that lasted more than 60 years, Rowan was one of the nation's foremost authorities on correctional...

Correctional Certification: First Step Toward Professionalism.
August 1, 2001... Ask any practitioner what corrections has in common with medicine and law, and he or she is likely to cite an above-average involvement in liability lawsuits, But there is something considerably more positive that corrections now shares with...

A Historical Moment ... PAST PRESIDENTS' Council Meets to Revise Declaration of Principles.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... On Saturday, May 19, history was made as 14 of the greatest minds in corrections met at the American Correctional Association's (ACA) headquarters in Lanham, Md., to revise its Declaration of Principles. Moderated by Mary Ann Saar, state...

"O Canada" -- An ACA Tradition.(American Correctional Association )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Have you ever wondered why we sing the Canadian national anthem at the beginning of every American Correctional Association (ACA) Winter Conference and Congress of Correction? ACA has many traditions and this one dates back 114 years. ...

A Proclamation: National Correctional Employees' Week.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... While the nature of what we do and how we do it may change over time, there is only one constant. That critical element--the people who work with us--will ultimately determine the success or failure of any program or correctional system. The...

ACA Celebrates Another Award-winning Year.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The American Correctional Association once again has proven itself as an award-winning organization in the area of publishing. The 2001 APEX Award selections found ACA winning awards for its magazine, books and videos. For the fourth...

Volunteer Program Aids Released Offender Supervision.
August 1, 2001... Learning to manage the risk of releasing offenders back into the community is a challenging task. It calls for good assessment and clear identification of offenders' needs, as well as consideration of the potential risk posed by failure to...

Office of Correctional Health Care -- An Idea for Today and Tomorrow.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... On occasion, an organization such as the American Correctional Association (ACA) will take on an issue not necessarily because it is easy or because it has received a great deal of public attention, but because it simply is the right thing to...

NIC Provides Training for Wardens.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Prisons Division traditionally has provided training to state prison wardens. Starting in the 1980s, NIC developed a peer training model using experienced wardens to train newly appointed wardens for...

Beyond His Time: The Maurice Sigler Story.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Beyond His Time: The Maurice Sigler Story, by Sharon Johnson Rion, American Correctional Association, 2001, 83 pp. Far too often, we, as corrections professionals, face challenges that inhibit a systematic reflection on both the...

Armor Holdings Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Armor Holdings Inc. announced in April that it signed an agreement to acquire the security products and services group (O'Gara), including the O'Gara-Hess and Eisenhardt subsidiary, of the Kroll O'Gara Co. Tracing its roots back to 1876,...

Kemlite Co.(forms British entity Kemlite Ltd.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Kemlite Co., a subsidiary of Crane Co., earlier this year acquiredthe assets of Lampro (Laminated Profiles Ltd.), a leading manufacturer of fiberglass-reinforced panels, located in Alton, England. Kemlite, headquartered in Joliet, Ill.,...

A Valuable Resource for Practitioners.
August 1, 2001... As corrections practitioners, we often feel overwhelmed or even intimidated by the constant barrage of technology information. Few of us have the time or knowledge to sort through and identify the current and emerging technologies that fit our...