
Zero-Touch Vital Monitoring
Cell-Guardian™ is a zero-touch monitoring system that continuously tracks inmate vital signs—heart rate, respiration and temperature—along with movement for fall detection.
Cell-Guardian™ is a zero-touch monitoring system that continuously tracks inmate vital signs—heart rate, respiration and temperature—along with movement for fall detection.
Justice System Partners’ Brian Lovins, Ph.D. challenges the false choice between security and rehabilitation, advocating for evidence-based design and operations that enhance safety by promoting human dignity and long-term success.
The Macomb County Jail Central Intake and Assessment Center (CAIC) serves as a crucial link between the justice system and community-based mental health care. At admission, people will be assessed for medical needs as well as mental health or substance-use disorders in coordination with MCCMH professionals.
There has long been a stigma associated with jails and prisons as being dungeon-like environments where people are stripped of not only their freedom but also their dignity.
Shannon Herklotz has been appointed executive chief of detention for the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office in Tarrant County, Texas.
Bexar County, Texas, officials have requested $60 million in state funding to renovate seven buildings within the San Antonio State Hospital complex.
Correctional facilities, once designed purely for containment and security, have been undergoing a significant transformation. Historically, carceral environments were stark, institutional spaces that often intensified the trauma stress, and mental health challenges faced by inmates.
The National Commission of Correctional Healthcare has added another member to its multidisciplinary Board of Representatives, Paula Oldeg, MD, CCHP.
In the face of mental health concerns that correctional officers can frequently navigate, GUIDE, an award-winning wellness and resilience mobile app, is a potential solution to prioritize the mental and emotional well-being of these officers.
A past study by the US Department of Justice shows that female inmates experience more mental health problems than their male counterparts (state prisons: 73% of females and 55% of males / federal prisons: 61% of females and 44% of males).