Drug Testing Employees
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Brian Langan
We have a staff of approximately 160 Correctional Officers. All members of the Correctional Emergency Response Team are tested every year and then random staff are tested. It is not a big issue and I think we should be held to this standard. It would not be good to supervise inmates in an altered state or repond to emergencies...
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Corrections leaders: It is on with the impossible - treating mentally ill in a correctional setting - Part 1
Everyone now knows, or should know, that the effect of the decriminalization of the mental health hospitals in the United States has resulted in large numbers of mentally ill individuals being sentenced to correctional institutions (Stelovich, 1979). This movement from hospitals to prisons is often referred to as a trans-institutionalization (Slate, 2013). As corrections professionals, we are past the point in time where we can continue to complain about the influx of the mentally ill in hopes that someone else will take them to a place where they can get care in an environment that is designed to help these individuals. As corrections professionals, we are past the point in time where we can pretend that this is not really our problem (after all, if we ignore it long enough, surely someone will see the unsuitability of prisons for this type of treatment and do something differently)... read full story
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