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| Broward County jails getting highest health-care honor |
| By sun-sentinel.com |
| Published: 10/12/2009 |
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FORT LAUDERDALE - The Broward Sheriff's Office's Department of Detention this month is receiving the Facility of the Year Award -- the highest jail health-care honor in the law enforcement community, officials say. The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, a nonprofit group aimed at improving health care at jails, prisons and juvenile confinement facilities, chose to recognize Broward's detention department after a team of specialists visited and evaluated about 500 facilities nationwide. Among the considerations for the award were how well such facilities are run, their professionalism and how well inmates are evaluated for illnesses, said Edward Harrison, president of the commission, based in Chicago. "All over the country the team looks at jails in large counties such as Broward, smaller counties and some even larger than Broward," Harrison said. "They were really impressed with the breadth and quality of care in the services that Broward's jails provide." The Broward Sheriff's Office, which operates the 12th-largest local jail system in the country, books an estimated 70,000 people a year at its five detention facilities. Earlier this year, activists expressed concern over five inmates hanging themselves in Broward jails within one year. But the commission determined Broward's jails have appropriate suicide-prevention procedures and qualified personnel to assess an inmate's suicide risk, Harrison said. Read More. |
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