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| Pennsylvania corrections trains crisis intervention teams |
| By poconorecord.com |
| Published: 05/04/2016 |
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Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel said in a press release that 1,000 prison staff members have received Crisis Intervention Team training aimed at improving response to inmates with mental health needs. "We have made significant improvements to our mental health services and key to all of the services being successful is how our employees respond to a mental health crisis at the onset," Wetzel said. "We need to be able to respond quickly and appropriately when a mental health crisis happens. Doing so helps to ensure proper care de-escalates a situation so that potential violence and harm to inmates or prison staff is averted." All 26 state prison superintendents finished their training last week. One quarter of all inmates in Pennsylvania prisons suffer from mental illness, while eight percent of those have severe forms of mental illness. Read More. |
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