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Management and Supervision of Jail Inmates
With Mental Disorders
Format: Looseleaf Book
© 2003, 1999 282 pp.
ISBN: 1-887554-08-4
Price: US $158.50
Product Code: MDJ
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Management and Supervision of Jail Inmates With Mental Disorders
By Martin Drapkin
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Step-by-step help with key operational issues:
- Identify jail inmates with serious mental and/or substance abuse disorders
- Provide adequate and proper mental health and substance abuse care and treatment to inmates
- Protect vulnerable inmates from harassment, exploitation or abuse by other inmates
- Protect other inmates and staff members from inmates with mental disorders who may be dangerous or violent
- Identify, deal with and protect inmates who are suicide risks
- Satisfy the jail's legal obligations and duties -- and avoid costly legal liability for negligence or deliberate indifference
- Train staff to ensure that appropriate policies and procedures are followed
- Work with community care providers and service agencies
Related Publications: The Mentally Disordered Inmate and the Law; Correctional Mental Health Report; Corrections Managers' Report
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