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| When a professional knows of and disregards an excessive risk to an inmate's health or safety |
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| Classroom setting withfeet shackled to desk |
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Community Orientation and Re-entry Program
90-day pre-release program
Develops skills essential for success |
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| Levels of the Correctional System |
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| Criminal Justice Involvement: Community Supervision |
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| Criminal Justice Involvement: Incarceration |
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Houses of Detention
Jails
Prisons |
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| Prison Language: Inmate Handbook |
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| Issued by security to distinguish tolerable and intolerable inmate behavior |
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| Prison Language: Inmate Code |
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| Oral tradition developed over generations of inmates to limit accidental violence and maximize inmate power |
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87% nono-violent
Many drug-related crimes
Less rigid inmate codes
Greater need for privacy, relatedness, and alliances
19%: schizophrenic, bipolar, major depressive (vs 9% males)
34% PTSD
75% substance abuse / addiction |
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| Detainee Competency Restoration (730) |
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Two Prongs: Psychiatric stabilization, education
Agent of the court |
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| Provider's role: treatment, advocacy |
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Special Treatment Program
Daily rounds and private interviews for inmate-patients |
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| Training for DOCS employees, record keeping, and evauluation for all inmates within 24 hours |
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OMH input into disciplinary hearings
Joint Case Management Committee (DOCS and OMH) |
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| Disability Advocates, In v. OMH, et al (2002) |
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Federal action against OMH and DOCS - agreement signed April 2007
Alleged that SHU confinement of inmates with a mental illness was inadequate: violation of the U.S. Constitution - cruel and unusual punishment |
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Private Settlement Agreement (PSA) terms
Joint case management oversight committee
2 hours daily of out-of-cell treatment |
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Corrections-Based Operations
Central New York Psychiatric Center (CYNPC) provides mental health treatment to inates; NYS Office of Mental Health |
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| Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
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Office of Mental Health
Provides advocacy, evaulations, treatment, and pre-release planning for mentally ill inmates
Does NOT provide security, medical treatment, educational services, rehabilitative servises, or pastoral counseling |
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| Mental Health in Corrections |
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58,000 people in NYS prison
7800 on MH caseload
2500 seriously mentally ill
1200 in special programs
3000 released each year (out of 25,000 overall)
1200 mental health contacts annually |
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| Mental Health Process in Corrections |
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1. Screen
2. Active cases transfer to the right facility
3. Inactive cases may have referrals made at any time
4. Active cases refusing services will not be terminated if in NEED of mental health care. |
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| Residential Mental Health Units |
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Intermediate Care Program (ICP)
Intensive Intermediate Care Program (IICP)
Transitional Intermediate Care Program (Tr-ICP)
Bheavioral Health Unit (BHU)
Therapeutic Behavioral Unit (TBU)
Residential Mental Health Unit (RMHU)
Group Therapy Program (GTP) |
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| "S" Designation: Specific Diagnoses |
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| Delusional Disorder; Schizophrenia, Schizophreniform Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder, Brief Psychotic Disorder, Substance Induced Psychotic Disorder (excluding intoxiation and withdrawal), Major Depressive Disorders |
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| Schizophreniform Disorder |
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| Possibly schizophrenia, but not confirmed yet |
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| Mood disorder mixed with thought disorder |
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Psychotic Disorder - not bipolar disorder or otherwise specified
Actively suicidal or recent suicide attempted
Organic Brain Syndrom that results in significant functional impairments
Severe Personlity Disorder that causes significant functional impairment, self harm, or behaviors that seriously adversely effect mental or physical health |
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Physically separate residental program
Inmates are unable to function in group settings |
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| Serves inmate patients who have at least 60 days of keeplock time for non-assaultive behaviors |
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| Mental Health Programs: Disciplinary Sanctions |
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Chronic management difficulties & lengthy keeplock sentences
Must have an "S" designation
Residential Programs - Behavioral Health Unit, Therapeutic Behavioral Unit, Residential Mental Health Unit |
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Therapeutic Behavioral Unit
Assist in developing skills to successfully complete their disciplinary sanctions
Transition into general population or a specialized program |
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Residential Crisis Treatment Program
Crisis services for inmate-patients whoe mental health status has deteriorated
Observation Cells (OBS) and Residential Crisis Dorms
10 day out count |
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Pre-release coordination services
Assistence with community entitlements, medications, mental health providers, and housing upon release |
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| Mentally Disordered Offenders Issues |
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| Culture, Consent to Treatment, Confidentiality, Privilege, Duty to Protect, Dual Agency Issues |
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Cognitive and emotional understanding of impact of treatment, side effects, refusal
Ability to anticipate the future |
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| Tarassoff v. Regents of the University of California |
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Duty to Protect in a Prison System
Tarasoff Assessment:
- Attidues which support or facilitate violence
- Capacity or means to carry out the violence
- Thresholds crossed (plan & implementation)
- Intent (ideas v fantasies; commitments)
- Other's reactions & responses
- Noncompliance with risk reduction |
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Malpractice
Failure to: perform adequate risk assesment, take adequate precautions, observe & monitor, medicate properly, take an adequate history, or use adequate supervision |
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Police
Probation / Parole
Correction Officers |
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Supervise people arrested for, charged with, or convicted of criminal offenses
Small percentage of people (20%) are institutionalized
Majority supervised in the community |
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| Factors Responsible for the Growth in Correctional Psychology |
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Increase in US prison population
- presently more than 2.25 million in institutions and 5 million are supervised in the community on a given day
- more attendance to offender REHABILITATION |
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| Protect public safety, retribution, individaul / general deterence |
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Hazard that is incompletely understood
Its occurence can be foreast only with uncertainty |
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| A correlation that also precedes occurence of a hazard, and, therefore, may play a casual role |
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| Risk Factor: Fixed Risk Markers |
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| Risk Factor: Variable Risk Markers |
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| Change status over time, but changes do not influence outcome |
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| Risk Factors: Casual Risk Markers |
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| Change status over time, and changes influence outcome |
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1. Characterize the risk that they will commit crime in the future
2. Develop interventions to manage or reduce risks
Uses interviews, observations, direct psychological/medical testing, record review, collateral interviews
Ultimate Goal: crime prevention |
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| Offender Risk Assesment: Professional Judgement |
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Evaluator exercises some degree of discretion in the decision-making process
Wide discretion about gathering / consideration of assessment information |
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| Actuarial Decision Making |
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Available info
Evaulators make ultimate decision according to fixed and explicit rules
Based on specific assessment data |
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| Professional Judgement Approach: Unstructured Professional Judgement |
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Decision making in absence of structure
Historically most commonly used
Strengths: Highly adaptable & efficient
Problems: Little empirical data to prove consistent, helpful decisions; decisions are unimpeachable - broad in scope and dispositional vs. speculative |
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| Professional Judgement Approach: Anamestic Risk Assessment |
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Limited degree of structure
Evaluator must identify personal & situational factors that resulted in crime & identify ways to break behavioral cains
No empiracal evidence supporting consistency or utility.
Assumption that hisotry will repeat itself. |
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| Professional Judgement Approach: Structured Professional Judgement |
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Decision making assisted by guidelines that reflect state of discipline, scientific knowledge, and professional practice
Define risk & identify core set of risk factors
Strenghts: Improved cosnistency, utility, and transparency
Problems: may require considerable time & resources to develop / implement; Lack of intuitive freedom/objectivity of actuarial approach; Disliked by some |
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| Actuarial Decision Making: Actuarial Use of Psychological Tests |
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Identify cutoff scores on a test that maximize predicitive accuracy
Strengths: transparecy, consistency, utility of decisions made using tests
Problems: test selection, judgement for scoring, one test is inefficient, prediction vs. prevention |
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| Actuarial Decision Making: Actuarial Risk Assessment Instruments |
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Predict future / specific outcome over period of time
Strengths: transparency, direct empiracle support
Problems: significant time / effort to construct & validate; trade-off between precision and generalizability, easy to accord too much weight to estimates of risk |
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| Actuarial Decision Making: Level of Service-Case Management Inventory |
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Guidelines to assist in assessment and management of risk for general criminality (male & female offenders 16+)
Evaluators make ratings based on interview with offender & review of relevant records
Document opioninos, recommendations, decisions
Gold-standard for offender assessment: correlation betwee total scores & general recidivism in offenders is r=.25 and r=.15 for institutional infractions |
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| Risk Assessment Instruments: LS-CMI |
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Simplistic definition of risk
Ignores important risk factors for specific forms of antisocial behavior
Structure is limiting, best suited for assessing adult males in urban North American correction centers |
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| Risk Assessment Instruments: Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised |
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PCL-R
Assess symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder |
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Risk-Needs-Responsivity
Risk: Level of Services commensurate with risks
Need: Assessment & management focuses on criminogenic needs
Responsivity: servises should be delivered to maximize effectiveness |
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High risk factors only
Concrete goals only
Too structured / skill-focussed
Delivered to groups rather than individuals
Too much focus on reducing recidivism |
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Focus on promoting personal goals while simultaneously reducing & managing risk
Acheive primary goods to naturally minimize crime involvement
Expansion of RNR, with greater emphasis on constructing meaning in life |
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| Reasoning and Rehabilitation - Revised Program |
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Group-based cognitive-behavioral treatment for adult male offenders at moderate risk
Limitations: high dropout rate, recidivism remains too high, quasi-experimentally designed evaluations, targeted at general criminality, unclear mechanism of change |
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